No need to have your gmail password, or even be gmail specific.
Is there anyone out there who would use this? Enough yeses and I'll build it.
No bells and whistles on Gmail is worth risking the security of the email, and that is precisely what is being asked when we're asked to give our password to a third party. And there are examples of such abuse of trust, you only have to look at the court case about Facebook execs using passwords to login to email accounts of competitors.
So yes, etacts looks wonderful. But it doesn't offer something so compelling that I would give out my password. It's actually very hard for me to imagine what could be so compelling that I would give out that password.
Well, imagine you're on the receiving end, and it's an annoying email that you don't care to respond to. Do you want to keep getting automated repeats, where all the pain is yours, or do you want it to be somewhat painful for the person sending to have to take the time to re-send?
Yes, it's courteous to respond, even if to politely say "not interested, can't do it, go away." But to be auto-spammed if you don't!?
Say: "I would like an email back about this email in 1 week."
Disadvantages to this:
* Your email goes out to them and gets stored for that long.
* You have to remember to include it as a bcc on every email you care about following up with.
* It doesn't automatically snooze if you get a followup.
* You have no way of tracking responses (in, say, a DB).
But it's a cheap solution that will do the job. Otherwise, there are special CRM packages for this. Unfortunately, I don't know much about them.
However, I would never want to send an auto-notification to the receiving party (often they're my customers -- how rude is that?).
I'd be annoyed if I was on the receiving end of the auto-reminder.
I think it is a great idea given the amount of mail i send and have to deal with. many times i just forget to make sure i received a reply, and sometimes when i do its just too late.
