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Today we released 2 major enhancements that will help you pull yourself together with threadsy even more.

Additional email address support with IMAP
As of today, you can add any email address that supports IMAP to threadsy. IMAP is the standard protocol for reading your email online from any computer.

So in addition to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL, you can now check your school, work, and other email addresses directly in threadsy. If you don’t know if your email accounts support IMAP, check with your email provider.



How to add an IMAP account
If you’re an existing threadsy user, go to ‘settings’ and in the email accounts tab, type your full email address and password and click ‘add’.

threadsy will try to add your email address automatically, but if it fails to recognize it, you’ll see this:

Click ‘yes’ and then you’ll see the IMAP settings page. threadsy puts in some default settings for you to try. If these don’t work, you’ll need to type in the proper settings. Ask your email service provider for the right settings.

Twitter Oauth support
As many of you requested, today we added support for twitter’s recommended Oauth access. Oauth is twitter’s secure method of signing into your account that doesn’t require threadsy to store your twitter passwords. An added benefit is improved stability with threadsy – no more annoying login popups like some of you’ve experienced.



Switching to Twitter Oauth (existing users only)
All existing threadsy users will be required to reauthorize their Twitter accounts the next time they log in to threadsy. You must reauthorize each twitter account you previously added to threadsy. If you choose not to reauthorize an account, it will be removed from threadsy. You can always add it back in ’settings’



Also: improved settings
New today, an extensive overhaul to the threadsy settings page to make it much easier to use. Now it’s divided into 3 sections: email accounts, social network accounts (Facebook and Twitter), and general. Note that we’ve moved the sound on/off control to the general tab.

We’ve also rolled out these changes to the sign up, so when you invite your friends to threadsy, it will be even easier for them to ‘pull themselves together.’ And yes, invite friends feature coming soon!