Otherinbox Review And 25 Invites

The idea behind Otherinbox is to provide an easy to manage email service for marketing offers and all those community websites and networks. The service provides a web interface and an email address to every user who signs up for the service. The main selling point of Otherinbox is the automatic generation of mail filters and folders. The email provider is creating and managing filters automatically for the basic email address.

This requires some explanation. The user signs up and picks a username during the setup. The domain for his email is then created automatically using the formula @username.otherinbox.com. Every email alias that is put in front of the @ will automatically create a new filter and folder for that alias.

This effectively means unlimited email addresses for every user which are harder to guess than those from similar services such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail. This does however mean that every email will reach the inbox and that a new folder and filter will be created for them automatically.

Otherinbox can be used to send emails from the available or newly created aliases as well. The real question is if someone would really need Otherinbox. It is not a problem to create a new webmail account and create filters for marketing and networking websites. The only difference is that Otherinbox provides automatic filter generation while they have to be created manually using the other webmail services.

Is that enough to make the service worthwhile? That’s up for you decide. The Otherinbox team provided Ghacks readers with 25 email addresses. Just head over to http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/ghacksnet and signup. The first 25 to signup get the beta account.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday September 25, 2008 -
Tags:Email, email administration, email management, email provider, email spam, emails, otherinbox, webmail

Responses so far:

1. Max says:

   September 25, 2008 at 3:47 am

   Thanks for the invite. I’ve been looking forward to trying this service.

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2. Dotan Cohen says:

   September 25, 2008 at 8:59 am

   This is how I filter mail on my own domain. It is great for controlling spam and knowing who gave your addresses to the spammers. Now people who do not have their own domain can do this too, great! I hope that the service succeeds.

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3. andzuz says:

   September 25, 2008 at 11:02 am

   Thank a lot

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4. Anonymoose says:

   September 25, 2008 at 1:26 pm

   Nice find! Now the 25 invites have run out, you might find the google query http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:beta.otherinbox.com+inurl:signup&filter=0 handy ;)

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5. Martin says:

   September 25, 2008 at 1:45 pm

   Anonymoose I thought about that briefly as well yesterday when they send me the url for the invitations ;) Nice find.

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6. Tino says:

   June 22, 2011 at 10:41 am

   Otherinbox WAS perfect. Now it’s called DEFENDER 2.0. But they changed everything. You must have a googlemail-account! and it isn’t blocking SPAM anymore. Any good ISP- Email Program is better.
   NO USE anymore

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