Yesterday, Gmail announced a new notification when it detects suspicious login activity for a Gmail account. For example, if a Gmail account was accessed in Austin, TX and then only a few minutes later in Europe, that might trigger this notification to let you know something suspicious may be occurring.

Unfortunately, this can result in some false alarms for OtherInbox users who connect OIB to their Gmail accounts. To find the account activity log in Gmail, find the Details link at the very bottom of the page.

Organizer for Gmail automatically scans and organizes incoming messages into a Gmail account's Inbox, looking for messages that aren't from real people (like newsletters, coupons, receipts, alerts, and so on). These scans connect to this Gmail account periodically throughout the day.

Because our services are hosted entirely in the cloud (specifically, Amazon Web Services), our connections to Gmail accounts come from multiple servers across the United States. These connections will appear in the activity log as IMAP connections.

Below, this Gmail account is normally accessed in Texas, but an IMAP connection was made from New York. This IMAP connection is actually OtherInbox, doing a scan to look for any messages that need to be organized.

If you wish to disable these warnings, you can do so using the "change" link underneath the log. Going forward, we are investigating solutions to minimize and eliminate these warnings for our Organizer users.

We had a lovely surprise yesterday. One of our partners, Yahoo! Mail, was kind enough to write a blog post about Automatic Organizer for Yahoo!: Spring into a Clean Inbox.

But then we realized, is it already time for spring cleaning?!

The blog post put it best:
“Tired of spending countless hours on cleaning up those emails that have piled up over the years? Spring is just around the corner and you know what that means – spring cleaning. Don’t suffer from the stress and get a jump-start on spring cleaning with an organized Yahoo! Mail inbox.”

Put Your Email on Autopilot with OtherInbox

10 Austin Startups You Should Meet While You’re at SXSW

March in Austin, Texas means so much more than spring break. People from all over the world come to experience Austin culture through one extraordinary event, South by Southwest (SXSW). 

The Austin American-Statesman has announced the 25 winners of their second annual Texas Social Media Awards and we are excited to announce that our very own Founder and CEO, Joshua Baer, is one of the 25 winners. Go Josh!

The judging panel consisted of Michelle Greer, Addie Broyles, and Robert Quigley, all of whom have distinguished themselves as social media gurus. Together they decided on the top 25 social media users in Texas who use social media tools such as blogging, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr in outstanding ways.

The overall winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at 6pm, March 15, at Ballet Austin, 501 W. 3rd. You can get tickets at statesman.com, balletaustin.org or at Ballet Austin, 501 W. Third St.

Could Josh be the overall winner? We're keeping our fingers crossed!

Due to overwhelming popular demand, we got a whole new shipment of our fabulous T-Shirts, all in black. 

 

Hint: If you want to see the "I've fallen and I can't get up" video, click here. You won't regret it.

We
love hearing feedback from all of our users. We even value the feedback
from our former users who gave Organizer a try but deactivated their
account. 

A very big thank you to all who took the time to complete our
“Organizer Exit Survey”. Your comments gave us some insights into why
you uninstalled Organizer and how we can make it better.

We
want to share these results with you and list how we have addressed
some of your concerns and encourage you to try Organizer again. Finally, we will announce the winner of our
drawing!