Google has tried it with Inbox, Microsoft handed Outlook Web App users Delve and now, with Verse, IBM is giving webmail a fresh look as it teaches its venerable Domino mail server new tricks.

IBM’s goals with Verse, released Thursday, include eliminating clutter, understanding the user, and blurring the line between messaging and social networking in the enterprise.

The interface makes it simpler to identify the people involved in a conversation and how they are related to one another, and to pull up all communications with them by clicking on their photos.

Given the constraints of email, IBM’s restructuring can only go so far: The interface still features two panes, with the message list on the left and the message preview on the right. But around that IBM has introduced a number of neat features.

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