Google's new "Inbox" hopes to simplify email

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story imageGmail is the email solution of choice for a huge number of Netizens, and that provides a rich playing field for developers hoping to be useful to you by providing tools that simplify email overflow. Enter Google with its latest endeavor, "Inbox." From Engadget:
If you're anything like us, Google's Gmail has an iron grip on your life. Google's looking to create a whole new iron grip with a new app from its Gmail team, and it's called "Inbox." What is it? That's a good question -- Google's made a demo slash advertisement video that we've dropped below. As far as we can tell, Inbox is a combination of Google Now and your Gmail inbox -- a "smart" inbox, if you will. It combines alike pieces of email (bank invoices, for example), highlights related information (like Google Now alerting you to flight changes, traffic, etc.) and keeps track of your life (it'll give you reminders, among other heads ups). Is this the end of Gmail? We seriously doubt it, but it is Google's latest foray into simplifying email.

Re: Does it really need to be... (Score: 1)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-10-23 20:30 (#2TNC)

Thanks, not necessary. I have my own dedicated server. When I use a free mail service, I never use their web interface, but let them forward all incoming mail to this server. On this server I run http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecot_%28software%29 dovecot, which make my email available via IMAP on my desktops at home. For most people this configuration would be overkill, but I host several git repositories on this server and use it to store backups. The email handling is just a nice additional feature.
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