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by dbg31415 3348 days ago
Keeping email clean is a never-ending task. I really want something that can help.

I've spent some time with various tools, I like the UX of your tool. My first reaction was that it seemed promising.

But in practice... I'm not sure how it would save me time. I just spent the last 30 mintues trying to create rules and such to help it clean my inbox... I think right out the gate you need to show value.

Right away it should have a list of all mail that's from email spammers, and give me the option to delete it. I suspect, in time, you'll have data needed to identify the spammers more easily?

I'm new to the tool... so maybe I got this wrong... but I know that I have friends and family that send using BCC... and for whatever reason it thinks all of those are spam. They aren't. But to protect them... I have to go to every from address and say, "This isn't spam..." and that's a lot.

Anyway if you do a search for the word "noreply" or "unsubscribe" in your Gmail... 99% of the time that's spam. You can quickly delete it.

I empty my inbox by doing "before: 04/24/2017" every Monday morning... any emails from the past week get thrown in the archive... I do star a few things as I go to help me follow up.

If the tool could do some smarter stuff like... instead of specific email addresses, I want to block everything from anyone "@paypal" that sort of stuff -- that'd be good... I can do that already with Gmail.

Nice UX, I can see this being useful for people who don't know how to use advanced queries in Gmail... it takes a bit of time to set up though... whatever you can do to cut that down so people see value in the first 3 minutes would be good.