So we thought it would be good to update this email post for the New Year and see how the state of email has changed. Recently, this matter has been agitated further by a popular email client (Mailbox) that was a acquired by a big company declaring that it shut down. And yet recently we’ve seen some big changes that have really shaken up the way many people use email and deal with email. Email is an old technology that is very similar to how it started out.