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The Bottom Line
After a bit of training, Inbox Buddy does a great job organizing your Outlook Inbox in a very useful way. Its spam filtering efforts aren't so stellar, though.
Inbox Buddy is no longer available.
Inbox Buddy is no longer available.
Pros
- Inbox Buddy (re-)moves spam automatically
- Organizes, prioritizes and color-codes mail
- Inbox Buddy is relatively simple and easy to use
Cons
- Inbox Buddy too vigorous against spam
- Spam detection techniques not disclosed
- Inbox Buddy requires Outlook
Description
- Inbox Buddy is an email assistant for Microsoft Outlook.
- Inbox Buddy detects and moves spam to a special folder automatically.
- Good mail is sorted and organized according to its priority by Inbox Buddy.
- A message's importance is calculated from sender, category, delivery time and more.
- Inbox Buddy color-codes incoming mail based on the sender's relationship with you.
- Inbox Buddy can notify you about mail from certain senders.
- "Fast Mail" allows you to create new messages to somebody in your Inbox fast.
- Inbox Buddy supports Windows 2000/XP and Outlook 2000/2.
Guide Review - Inbox Buddy 1.1 - Outlook Add-On
Email suffers from two (related) problems: spam and good mail with low importance getting in the way of urgent messages. Inbox Buddy is a smart Outlook plug-in that sets out to solve them both.
Based on an analysis of your email habits (and manual input about your relationship with certain senders), Inbox Buddy automatically organizes, color-codes and prioritizes the messages in your Inbox. Its guess is usually a very good one, and ensures your attention is drawn to where it is spent best.
Unfortunately, Inbox Buddy is not as precise when it comes to singling out spam. In my tests, Inbox Buddy thought a significant number of good mail was spam. Sure, it's easy to mark an email not spam, but it's still distraction of the Inbox.
