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Email, snail mail, text messages etc. all need, IMO, options for ONLY allowing incoming messages from known sources. This seems like it is really aiming to do that for Email and I applaud the effort. Hopefully, it will take off in a big, big way.

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The email protocol allows all senders, but you’ve always had the option to configure your client to delete all incoming messages based on whatever criteria you see fit. Technically it still hits your email server but it’s effectively the same as what UX you want on client side.

I hope so too. I hope I have the right set of features so far. Happy to hear thoughts and early feedback.

Email at least you can set this up with a rule that checks the sender against your contacts and throws them into some folder.

True. I find setting up rules and adding to contacts adds work to my day-to-day though. I'm hoping to make something simple and seamless. Prefix inboxes are as simple as I could think so far: make one up, add a suffix on the spot when you handout an email address -- boom, locked to the first one who uses it.

This is what finally made email useful for me again. I use hey.com email and the Screener whitelist is probably the most important feature. (Selective notifications being the second most useful for me.)

I think this could work for text messages, too. All new texts could go to a screener and don't notify until you opt-in.

That defeats the purpose. If I have an email, I want to be reachable. We just need a good spam detector...oh wait, that's pretty much solved already :)

Anyway, nothing against the posted project! I think it's cool.

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