SaneBox is an email management
software as a service that integrates with
IMAP and Exchange Web Services (EWS) email accounts. Its primary function is to filter email messages that it deems unimportant into a folder for later processing.
History
SaneBox is a self-funded company with locations in
Boston, Massachusetts, and Venice, California. It was founded by Stuart Roseman in 2010 in response to articles written by Bijan Sabet,
Fred Wilson (financier)
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and
Michael Arrington. As an entrepreneur, Roseman previously founded and sold other companies, including
Gamesville and Gamelogic. In 2012, SaneBox announced SaneBox for Business in a shift toward becoming more
business-to-business
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focused.
Operation
SaneBox integrates with a user’s email server and analyzes past email usage in order to infer what emails are important. Messages deemed important remain in the inbox, while those deemed unimportant are filtered into a different folder for later reference. The algorithms and filtering are primarily based on the email sender, the subject line and the timestamp. A second type of filtering deletes incoming emails from designated senders, a feature that is intended to serve a similar purpose to unsubscribing from email lists. Other functions of the service including "snoozing," or deferring, emails, and a
Dropbox integration that moves email attachments of a certain size into Dropbox and replaces them with the Dropbox link. Similar attachment support is available for
Box
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,
EverNote,
Google Drive and IBM SmartCloud.
References
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