What is Boxbe?
December 11th, 2007 by Randy Stewart, Product ManagerWith the recent relaunch of our site, I thought this might be an opportune moment to better explain what Boxbe is and how we can help you.
Beyond Email 2.0
Email is an essential tool that we use in all areas of our lives, personal and professional. Yet it has not kept pace with the way people communicate.
Email as we know it is broken. It hasn’t changed with the times and many people claim to be abandoning email and young people aren’t adopting it.
Boxbe is a service that lets you easily create an email guest list so that you can make sure you receive email messages from people who matter to you.
Boxbe Guest List
A Boxbe Guest List works like lists on popular social networking sites – it protects and guarantees the delivery of email from friends, family, co-workers or even entire domains.
When you first sign up, Boxbe scans your existing email folders and address book to create a Guest List that includes all the people you’ve recently and frequently emailed. The Guest List is live and dynamic and automatically includes new people you want to receive email from, so your friends are already included
When you receive an email from someone you have not already pre-approved, you can opt to approve the sender. She will then be added to your Boxbe Guest List. We are adapting email for the social networking generation.
Boxbe cleans up your inbox
Inboxes are filled with unwanted messages, making it hard to find the things you do want. Or sometimes important messages are marked as junk by an over zealous spam filter.
Boxbe cleans up your inbox and guarantees emails from people who matter, and stops those that are unwanted.
It works with your existing email
Boxbe is designed for the millions of email users who want better control of their email. Boxbe works with Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Outlook.
Boxbe for Your Domain is in beta testing – it and more services will be rolled out in 2008!
Never miss an important message
Ever miss an important email because it got marked as spam?
Boxbe ranks incoming messages from 1-10, and color codes them. The lower the number, the better the message.
Green messages mean likely good, yellow means caution and red means bad. If your Aunt Hilda just changed her email address, she will likely get a low score marked green. However, a sender that isn’t who they claim to be will get a high score marked red.
Give spammers the heave-ho
Boxbe empowers you to choose which people or businesses can reach you. Anyone who isn’t on your Guest List will receive a request to verify their message before it is delivered to your inbox. Legitimate marketers who want to reach you have the option of paying a small fee that you set so that they can get their message through to you.
Unverified messages are held in your Waiting List for you to review, and approve or decline at anytime.
In a nutshell
Boxbe helps you sift through the barrage of email you receive on a daily basis. We’re here to uncomplicate your inbox and help you get to the messages you want to receive.