Announcing Tonsho.com

On Monday 4th February we will officially launch the beta of Tonsho - an email service that solves two of the biggest problems with email: sending large file attachments and spam.

With Tonsho you can send large email attachments as normal using our outgoing smtp mail server. The server strips off your attachment, puts it on a web sever and sends your recipient a link.

Our Spam filtering works by authenticating senders.  When someone not in your contacts tries to reach you they are sent a challenge email. This contains a link to a captcha - one of those squiggly things. Once solved the sender is always allowed to send to you; meaning you don't miss important mails from your customers and friends.

Naturally I'm excited about launching Tonsho. The file sending stems from an idea I had when discussing sending files with Dan Maxwell in the lake district. Creating a working prototype was fairly straight forward. Deciding to go ahead with the idea was the most difficult part. Creating a full blown service was very involved - things like how to describe and present the service, creating help pages and getting the user options correct all take a lot of time and effort.

At first we'll quietly announce the service so that we can be fast to respond to questions and fix any teething problems. Then start to really market it once we're confident its really robust.

Please do sign up for a free beta account here!