Lever – Introducing Gmail Sync

https://blog.lever.co/blog/2014/03/24/introducing-gmail-sync/

by ericz • 12 years ago

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hazelcough• 12 years ago

Congrats on launching this!

Out of curiosity, where do other popular ATSes fall in terms of email integration? (Jobvite I think is the popular incumbent?)

kevinliang• 12 years ago

Pretty sure nobody actually likes to use jobvite. Feels like it's a tool they have to use and I think Lever is trying to change that feel.

nateps2• 12 years ago

Email integration is usually done by manually BCCing or sending emails from an email address generated by the system. BCCing is difficult to do consistently, and replies don't get captured automatically. Sending emails from a special address has much lower deliverability and more importantly is awkward for the person receiving it.

We send emails as you over Google OAuth and Gmail SMTP. That way, the email literally comes from you and shows up in your sent folder. The advantage to doing this in a shared system like Lever is that everyone else on your team can see the full history among multiple people.

When you send another email in Gmail or the recipient replies, we use IMAP to listen on threads associated with Lever. That way, we capture emails much more reliably and they don't have to come from strange random email address. It is really cool stuff, and it happens just as fast as Gmail can show an email, because we are acting just like a full email client.

canthonytucci2• 12 years ago

Why so so few company blogs + forums have an easy to find link to the main company page?

Having to head to URL bar and delete the "blog." is unpleasant.

nateps2• 12 years ago

Good point. Thanks for mentioning. Made the logo at the top link to https://lever.co, which probably makes more sense.

diggan• 12 years ago

Hm, question is how to get to the root of the blog now to see all the posts...

canthonytucci2• 12 years ago

awesome. I like to do a little pre-reading and peruse a company's marketing materials to get a feel for what they do when reading entries like this. thanks much!

Lever – Introducing Gmail Sync

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