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View allProduct Update: March 2026
This March release adds native Gmail and Microsoft 365 mailbox connections, plus a loopback mailbox for faster testin...
MIME Parsing Is More Hostile Than It Looks
I have learned that email parsing feels easy right up to the moment real traffic arrives. MIME structure, headers, an...
Why Custom IMAP Scripts Age Badly
I have seen plenty of teams inherit a tiny mailbox script that looked harmless at launch. A few years later, it owns ...
Exceptions Are Where Email Keeps Winning
I have seen this pattern again and again: the portal handles the clean path, then the hard cases spill into email. Ap...
Forwarding Rules Are Not an Architecture
At first, inbox automation feels fast and clever. Later, it becomes a hidden system with unclear ownership, weak visi...
Why Attachment-Heavy Email Workflows Break First
I see the same pattern across document-heavy teams: the email itself looks manageable, but the attachment process qui...