If you were one of the lucky few who snagged one of Rick’s beta invites to OtherInBox last year, kudos. For everyone else, OtherInBox has long been tantalizingly off limits to new users. No more! Now anyone can get an OtherInBox account, which gives you unlimited disposable e-mail accounts.
You get your own pseudo-domain, like username.otherinbox.com, and there’s no limit to the number of e-mail addresses you can create. As messages come into OtherInBox, they’re sorted into inboxes by account, so all your amazon@username.otherinbox.com are kept separately from woot@username.otherinbox.com. Not only does this make it easy to sort the wheat from the chaff, but it gives you insight into what sites are reselling your e-mail address — and then you can block messages from offending e-mail addresses.
OtherInBox can also redirect your Gmail messages and apply this organizing polish to your existing messages — see the video for the details. For now, Gmail is the only service you can incorporate into OtherInBox. Other advanced features, like automatically identifying coupons and receipts in your inbox, are “coming soon” as well. And while the service is nominally free, it only displays the last 30 days worth of messages at no charge. Seeing all your mail costs $20/year. When you can make an infinite number of Gmail accounts for free, it seems silly to pay for something like OtherInBox, but the service is smart, easy, and convenient. I’ll definitely be using the free version, at least for starters.
