About six months ago, I have written this post to talk to you about Otherinbox for Gmail. Now, I have been using this service for nearly one year and I would like to give a feedback on my usage over these last twelve months.

For a starter, let me refresh for new comers and those who don’t know OIB what this is. Otherinbox, is fresh start-up, based in Austin (TX) that provides a service to automatically organize your inbox. No need to create filters and rules to keep a decent inbox and avoid a 6 months backlog, Otherinbox filters your e-mail on the basis of the receiving e-mail address. It lets you create a custom domain (<username>.otherinbox.com or your own domain name if you have one) to which you associate your e-mail accounts. This empowers you with the ability to use create on-the-fly addresses when registering to a new service, removing you the strain of creating the addresses before.  This service also comes as a great way to identify who’s spamming you,  hence you don’t need to use that old “no-spam” address we all used to have.

So over the year, Otherinbox has improved on several levels. First thing, as any brand new product, there were few bugs, but where Otherinbox deserves an A+ grade is their dedication and quick response to the users requests, fixing the issues in order to avoid harm and inconvenience to the users.

On the other side, they have been working hard in order to bring several new features:

? Spam filters. Now your e-mails are all scanned and spams are automatically discarded.

? Otherinbox for Gmail: If you’re willing to keep your Gmail account and still use it as a primary account for your contacts, no worries. Otherinbox has come with O4G. This service will scan your new e-mails and it will automatically archive them in your OIB account following built-in rules for recognition and grouping. Nothing is deleted on the Google Mail servers, e-mails are just endorsed with the label “Otherinbox”. Few months laters, the integration with Yahoo! Mail has been provided as well.

Following the same philosophy of autopilot e-mail, they have provided automatic filters to organize mailing lists subscriptions (Google groups, Yahoo groups, Craiglist…).

You e-mails are accessible through a regular ajaxed web interface but you can also have them delivered through RSS on your favorite aggregator.

If you’re willing to use Otherinbox from a fat client or from your mobile, you will have to sign up for a Premium account (20$/year) which will provide you access all your e-mail using IMAP, the Premium version will also allow you to see messages that have been on your inbox for more than 30 days.

Last and not least, Otherinbox technology is now compatible with most browsers on the market including IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

But Otherinbox is not stopping there. They are working hard on bringing new features and improving the experience. The roadmap includes enhanced mobile versions (you may check the iPhone version), coupons and full list of your receipts.

Otherinbox has really helped throughout the year with this powerful on-the-fly email. Either when subscribing to a service, when networking with people, or just when I had to enroll for specific registrations (hotels, premium memberships, clubs, coupons). I didn’t need to think about being spammed anymore or that I would have to manage any unwanted e-mail. The only thing that I was thinking about was being creative when providing the new e-mail address.

Oh and by the way, this is just my personal feedbacks and I am, in no way, affiliated to Otherinbox, but you have any specific questions, you may ask them on Twitter.