Dropbox Mailbox closing February next year

Dropbox Mailbox is set to close in February 2016, according to an announcement by Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi on their company's website. Titled `Saying goodbye to Carousel and Mailbox', Houston and Ferdowsi said they learned a lot after building and launching the two services, and now, they would be moving on to focus their attention on work collaboration services and features.

Mailbox emerged from Dropbox's acquisition of Orchestra, the startup behind the main skeleton of the Mailbox app. Reports said the California-based file hosting company paid $100 million for the acquisition Orchestra in 2013. Mailbox was designed for simplification of email, and achieving ''zero inbox,'' meaning, no unread or unwanted messages in end-users inboxes.

With Mailbox users could move items to another box, archive messages etc, with easy-to-follow swipes.

The app was launched by the free e-mail service in 2013, and later it introduced the Android version in 2014. The desktop version of Mailbox was also launched in that year.

Dropbox is set to pull the plug on Mailbox on 26 February, next year, so users still had plenty of time for accounts management and move to other similar products or platforms, like Gmail's Inbox.

Meanwhile, Google is looking to migrate its e-mail services to  'Inbox By Gmail'.
The company has reportedly started notifying users of its experimental 'Inbox By Gmail' service that the new service had replaced their existing Gmail account.

Inbox, which was launched in October 2014, aimed to help Gmail users better organise emails and display information such as appointments, flight bookings and package deliveries in a more user-friendly way.

The app is available on the web as also on Android smartphones and iPhones.