Goodbye OtherInbox, hello Gmail IMAP via Ruby
For a while now, I’ve used (and, for the most part, loved) OtherInbox. It’s a really handy service – just create a new email address for each site instead of giving out your main address for those sites to sell and then spam. But I’ve been using it since the beta, and have been increasingly annoyed by certain features that have been removed or withheld from the free account. For example, IMAP access is only available to pay accounts, as is the ability to read any message you received more than 30 days ago.
I’m not faulting OtherInbox for this – I get it, they need to make a profit. Heck, I would probably take the same approach they have. But, I finally decided there was a better solution for me. So goodbye OtherInbox, hello to the exact same functionality (and then some) via Gmail. Let me explain…
Posted by Phil Burrows on Jul 17, 2009