Outspring introduces new Mail application

Posted March 31st, 2008 by mike

Mac Software

Outspring, Inc. has released Outspring Mail, an innovative new email application. Outspring Mail has several unique automative features, including learning ability and Deferment. It can import your mailboxes and accounts from Apple Mail, and supports all Mac OS X services including spell checking, addressbook, and iCal integration.

Outspring Mail ushers in an entirely new category of software to the Macintosh: adaptive intelligent software. By using advanced database analysis and Bayesian logic, the program is able to ascertain patterns in the way you reply to and file your mail and make suggestions to assist you with your communications. For example, if you frequently reply to an email message that says, "How do I get to your office?" or words to that effect Outspring Mail is smart enough to know that you've replied to this same type of message before and offers to use one of these replies for the current message.

The program also offers a similar technique for filing messages. Once the program has gone through a short learning process of observing your mail filing habits and cross-referencing message content, it will begin to suggest appropriate folders or mailboxes to file messages. Instead of dragging messages to folder icons, you'll be presented with one or more likely destination buttons that will automatically file your mail in an appropriate location.

Another unique feature of Outspring Mail is a function called Message Deferment. This is much like the "snooze" button on an alarm clock. Many people will receive a message, read it, make a mental note to handle it later and then leave it in their Inbox. After a few weeks or months, their Inbox becomes an unmanageable mess. But what if you could instead read the message, decide you don't want to deal with it this week and send it "away" for a week? The deferment feature then moves the message to a special folder and the program waits for the selected amount of time. When that time period has elapsed, Outspring Mail then moves the message back into the Inbox with an indicator reminding you that the message is a deferred message that has been returned.

Outspring Mail also contains a unique "Intelligent Summary" view. By using advanced summarizing algorithms, this feature allows you to quickly review email by a list of the summarized content, negating the need to open each message to see the heart of that content.

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