SaneBox
{{Short description|Email sorting software}}
{{Infobox dot-com company
| name = SaneBox
| logo=
| foundation = 2010 (beta)
| company_type = Private
| location = Boston, Massachusetts, and Venice, California, U.S.
| key_people = Stuart Roseman, Founder & CEO
| services = Email management software
| license = Subscription
| url = {{URL|http://www.sanebox.com}}
}}
SaneBox is an email management software as a service that integrates with IMAP and Exchange Web Services (EWS) email accounts. Its primary function is to filter email messages that it deems unimportant into a folder for later processing.
History
SaneBox is a self-funded company with locations in Boston, Massachusetts, and Venice, California. It was founded by Stuart Roseman in 2010 in response to articles written by Bijan Sabet, Fred Wilson (financier) and Michael Arrington.{{cite web|last1=Orlin|first1=Jon|title=Taming Email Overload With SaneBox|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/11/taming-email-overload-with-sanebox/|website=TechCrunch}} As an entrepreneur, Roseman previously founded and sold other companies, including Gamesville and Gamelogic.{{cite web|last1=Hand|first1=Randall|title=New Boston company offers to visualize your data|url=http://www.vizworld.com/2009/04/new-boston-company-offers-to-visualize-your-data-daily/#sthash.1vUyMuHp.PFNeZGwQ.dpbs|website=VizWorld}} In 2012, SaneBox announced SaneBox for Business in a shift toward becoming more business-to-business focused.{{cite web|title=SaneBox Now Has A Solution For The Enterprise Email Overload Crisis|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/18/sanebox-targets-the-email-overload-crisis-at-the-enterprise-inbox/|website=TechCrunch}}
Operation
SaneBox integrates with a user’s email server and analyzes past email usage in order to infer what emails are important. Messages deemed important remain in the inbox, while those deemed unimportant are filtered into a different folder for later reference.{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Kevin|title=This Is By Far The Easiest Way To Fix Email Overload|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/sanebox-walkthrough-2013-2|website=Business Insider}} The algorithms and filtering are primarily based on the email sender, the subject line and the timestamp.{{cite web|last1=Duffy|first1=Jill|title=Get Organized: SaneBox's Dmitri Leonov on Email Management|url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2423542,00.asp|website=PC Magazine}} A second type of filtering deletes incoming emails from designated senders, a feature that is intended to serve a similar purpose to unsubscribing from email lists.{{cite web|last1=Rosenbaum|first1=Steven|title=A Marketer's Worst Nightmare: The Black Hole|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2013/04/08/a-marketers-worst-nightmare-the-black-hole/|website=Forbes}} Other functions of the service including "snoozing," or deferring, emails, {{cite web|last1=Carney|first1=Michael|title=SaneBox Offers Solution to Email Overload|url=https://pando.com/2012/04/23/sanebox-offers-a-solution-to-email-overload/|website=Pando}} and a Dropbox integration that moves email attachments of a certain size into Dropbox and replaces them with the Dropbox link.{{cite web|last1=Brian|first1=Matt|title=Filter-based email tool SaneBox adds Dropbox support to host your attachments in the cloud|url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/08/16/filter-based-email-tool-sanebox-adds-dropbox-support-host-attachments-cloud/|website=The Next Web}} Similar attachment support is available for Box, Evernote, Google Drive and IBM SmartCloud.