Google’s New Inbox By Gmail Can’t Handle Its Inbox

Wow, this is something that I found rather funny… Google just announced Inbox by Gmail, a new type of service that handles all of your appointments, calendar, and emails (and some other stuff) in one place. OK, so that’s really cool. If it works. I’d like to be one of the first to try it.

In the blog post, Google asked people to send an email to Inbox@Google.com. But, apparently Google’s Inbox won’t accept emails to inbox@gmail.com. My email, sent to Inbox@Gmail.com, bounced back, like this:

From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: XXXXXXX@gmail.com

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

inbox@gmail.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient’s email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6596

—– Original message —–

Return-Path:
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of XXXXXXXX@gmail.com designates 10.152.43.197 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.152.43.197
Authentication-Results: mr.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of XXXXXXXX@gmail.com designates 10.152.43.197 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=XXXXXXXX@gmail.com;
dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com
X-Received: from mr.google.com ([10.152.43.197])
by 10.152.43.197 with SMTP id y5mr25475930lal.82.1414002613130 (num_hops = 1);
Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type;
bh=1wj6fwQvGk+Rnzsu/A/BiWcNahcBwcjwTTEhN4R+l9M=;
b=abnDJWxiZhx72MLfW16CI5fqv05vjcb1EjiMPBjHvThlck0usFRksoo4zN+txUL3Iv
JNOOddQodT+tCXU1Tf+bjVc/tX+uSImtWMggbO0NK2D69ltEO6ct/YLydwfnUl6xQixv
qDNoI0mI0eVJ4VvbF6uYgVjdBsSMZeb3pAI530RK6CLcYy+kE+ofYioQnJwO45h4mjjP
xr8Pqstw/Xg6QRDv6an1WPGw2HCYbX53l2DXe+rlech0/aunOC/Kk40Qw/oFvIKTAOVU
k39iWFBkayHYjpzJtl8rDQCcVhEjYyS4zfuIMsNm4QHe09uuS+og0xoYcGG14O/xLLVb
YvVQ==
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Received: by 10.152.43.197 with SMTP id y5mr25475930lal.82.1414002613125;
Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.112.8.12 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:30:13 -0500
Message-ID:
Subject: would like to try inbox
From: Bill Hartzer
To: inbox@gmail.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c27e347789cc0506072318

would love to try inbox from gmail.

Bill

All I did was follow their instructions, as I thought.. but then I realized, as a commenter on this post pointed out: it’s inbox@google.com and not the inbox@gmail.com address.

You see? I have too much “gmail” on the brain. Oh well.