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I honestly don't really get the "Imbox" idea of Hey email, they say you will get a separate tab to show all emails coming from unverified addresses, but isn't t

by usaphp 6y ago

I honestly don't really get the "Imbox" idea of Hey email, they say you will get a separate tab to show all emails coming from unverified addresses, but isn't that going to be full with spam just like your spam folder in gmail? I don't want to dig through hundreds of spam messages to find important ones. I don't know, maybe I don't understand something

ehsankia 6y ago
I know nothing about Hey but it could be 3 tiers still? Verified addresses, unverified addresses and detected spam? If I send you an email right now from my personal domain, I'll show up under unverified, and I'd like to think I'm not spam. Really, I imagine it's simpler to view the verified section as the special inbox, where only priority contacts show up.
nxc18 6y ago
It feels like Hey is trying to solve a bunch of problems already solved by other email services. If anything, the problem with gmail and the like is they try to be too smart and end up getting it wrong. It feels unreliable when an important email ends up in the wrong category. Outlook and the like have the sweep feature which makes managing email quite easy. The built in unsubscribe tool works very well. I think maybe the premise is that people don’t know how to use their existing tools well, but then I don’t have confidence Hey will do a better job. They tried to get me to watch their CEO explain it for 37 minutes. The other thing I find questionable is how this would work with third-party email clients. Anytime the service tries to ‘reinvent’ email, it ends up breaking standard features, like being able to use your own email client. Look at gmail and how their tags concept translates to e.g. imap Edit: I assumed DHH was running Hey because he’s been complaining about it so much lately.
- riking 6y ago
  Gmail killed bundles (Google Inbox) though.
yoz-y 6y ago
They run an automated spam filter before putting mail into the screener thingie. https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ They claim it's better at not removing genuine messages which is possible but remains to be tested.
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by usaphp 6y ago

ehsankia 6y ago

I know nothing about Hey but it could be 3 tiers still? Verified addresses, unverified addresses and detected spam? If I send you an email right now from my personal domain, I'll show up under unverified, and I'd like to think I'm not spam. Really, I imagine it's simpler to view the verified section as the special inbox, where only priority contacts show up.

nxc18 6y ago

It feels like Hey is trying to solve a bunch of problems already solved by other email services. If anything, the problem with gmail and the like is they try to be too smart and end up getting it wrong. It feels unreliable when an important email ends up in the wrong category. Outlook and the like have the sweep feature which makes managing email quite easy. The built in unsubscribe tool works very well. I think maybe the premise is that people don’t know how to use their existing tools well, but then I don’t have confidence Hey will do a better job. They tried to get me to watch their CEO explain it for 37 minutes. The other thing I find questionable is how this would work with third-party email clients. Anytime the service tries to ‘reinvent’ email, it ends up breaking standard features, like being able to use your own email client. Look at gmail and how their tags concept translates to e.g. imap Edit: I assumed DHH was running Hey because he’s been complaining about it so much lately.

riking 6y ago
Gmail killed bundles (Google Inbox) though.

yoz-y 6y ago

They run an automated spam filter before putting mail into the screener thingie. https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ They claim it's better at not removing genuine messages which is possible but remains to be tested.

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