If anybody wants to do this to their own GMail account without putting trust in a third party, this is pretty easy to do with the little-known Google Apps Script. You can write JavaScript that will run on Google's servers and do whatever you want to your account. (I use this to archive various automated emails if I haven't bothered to look at them, to keep them from cluttering my inbox after they're obsolete.)<p>Here's a script which I think should do the job, assuming you have a filter set up to move all incoming mail to a label called 'hidden_mail' (warning: untested!):<p><pre><code> function checkMail() {
GmailApp.moveThreadsToInbox(GmailApp.search('label:hidden_mail'));
}
</code></pre>
Just create a new project on <a href="https://script.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://script.google.com/</a> , paste in this code, and then Edit > Current Project's Triggers and add a trigger to run checkMail() on whatever schedule you want.
What's the difference with just checking your email 3 times per day? Personally, I've been checking my email before I start working in the morning, right after lunch, and before I finish my day.<p>I have the luxury that none of my emails are "urgent" (i.e. I don't work in Customer Support), so I disabled email notifications and just take a look whenever I want.<p>I'm a little confused as to why one would need such a service.
What guarantees are in place with your users preventing you guys from selling your company after you've gained users and then that new company storing everyone's emails and digging through them for juicy details, IP, insider trading info, prescriptions, 2FA info, financial info, medical info, blackmail info, nudes, passwords, or anything else some people might not want a company to have? Or partnering with a company that has a data-sharing agreement with you so technically your company isn't reading emails but theirs is.<p>I'd imagine this is a concern for some people with this type of service similar to how in the past Chrome extensions have proceeded down this path without anyone being the wiser.<p>It really seems like people don't realize the potential pandora's box that they can open by sharing their emails with someone or an organization, even if that organization is currently trustworthy.<p>And a couple of questions for you about your infrastructure security. What is your infrastructure security and when you get breached what will you do about it? I'm assuming given your company's ability to access emails someone will find you a juicy enough target and if you get big potentially even criminal organizations and state actors would. If that's the case you will almost certainly be breached to some extent because you have a juicy treasure trove.
I am the creator of <a href="https://DNDEmail.com" rel="nofollow">https://DNDEmail.com</a> --- a very similar app that implements do not disturb for your Gmail. I launched in April 2017 and have struggled to get users. I have 1,500 users, including 15 who pay for premium accounts.<p>I will say, adios.ai has really nailed the marketing message. The website does a great job explaining a modestly complex idea. I have struggled with the message and marketing. Mostly, my users are people who knew they wanted this solution and went looking for me. I think adios.ai will do a better job of convincing people who didn't realize this is what they wanted.<p>Kudos!
Using mutt and manually invoked pop3 from command line works just as well. You'll really hate checking your mail.<p>Just kidding. But not really. :D
Thanks for this.<p>Just FYI it wasn't not super clear how it actually works, i.e. how to get it setup, is it a gmail plugin, or do I have to change my email settings to make all emails pass by you first (which is red flag privacy-wise).
The privacy policy really needs a strong statement to the tune of "we do not collect any of your email data or metadata, whether raw, anonymized or aggregated", or a detailed explanation of what exactly is being collected/aggregated together with strong guarantees about what the co promises never to collect.
We originally built this using a Google App Script in Gmail. Has been game-changing for productivity. Now launching it as a service so anyone can try it out.<p>Any and all feedback welcome. Happy to take any questions.
Ahem, I read my mails from my maildir, sync-ed with mbsync or muchsync depending on what systems I'm using... So, if I want to read my mails at ANY interval of time I simply change my cronjob and imap-idle wrapper script to trigger a sync or I may only change my dunst hook to tweak notification. No need to offload to ANOTHER third party my messages.<p>Sorry, pollice verso.