A better mail app?

If it were stock it'd have to be put out by Apple and I highly doubt they will release a mail app that competes with their mail app.

What are you missing with your mail app? Perhaps that is the question you need to answer.

 

Things that would be great:

Unified inbox
Junk filter
Folders for organization
Mark all as read.

 

What I dont like about the mail app is it fails to push e-mail quickly. I really never get the red icon for mail unless I open it. I have push enabled dont get me wrong but it's just easier to open the mail app to see how much mail I have rather than rely on the red badge icon.

 

If you use IMAP you can set up folders with our desktop client. On the phone use Edit-Move to organize your messages. Can't add/modify folders on the phone though, just move messages to and from.

 

I agree with you, the mail app on the iPhone is functional, but not great. It would be really nice to have the ability to organize by conversation (a la gmail) and to be able to compose emails in something other than plaintext...

 

Does your email provider support push mail? My MobileMe mail comes in instantly. I hear my laptop and iPhone go off at the same time constantly.

None that I know of personally. I use a Blackberry for work and iPhone for personal usage. Perhaps it's a personal preference, but I would rather not have the unified Inbox. I like knowing which emails are from which account as I have 4 of them. If I need to search across multiple accounts, I just use the search page that's next to the Home screen.

 

Yeah, I have a yahoo mail account and emails seem to be coming in rather slowly

 

HTML mailer or something along those lines might be worth a look from the app store

 

Push works great for me on MS Exchange server.

Things the Apple Mail App could do with:

• Select All Function
• Mark As Read and All Function
• Not all attachments allow you to view or even save them.

mBox is a great app for MSN/Hotmail users well worth the money.

 

There's a utility in Cydia that will let you download any email attachment.

 

Cool, what's it called?

 

What I noticed with the push functionality not working is when I open up my mail app, why would I ever have to download e-mail? You know that bar at the bottom. You may be thinking oh well thats an email coming in but it's not its over 15 mins ago and I am wondering if push is enabled, why should you ever have to wait at all for an email to come in?

 

What I have always hated about the Mail app is that it is a pain to get around in.

I have 3 accounts and it is 3 clicks per... back and forth to navigate.

Terrible.

 

I shouldn't have to switch to IMAP just to get folders.

 

Why not? Serious question, is there an easy route to get folders w/o IMAP that Apple just isn't implementing?

 

AMEN brother! It would be great if we could get an icon for each email account like on the BB. I miss being able to have different notification profiles for my different accounts.

 

I've been trying out ibisMail now for a couple of days and even though it has short comings it's growing on me! Give it a shot

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300834416&mt=8

 

I have folders on my Mac's Mail program.

 

It's called AttachmentSaver. It's a paid app that costs $1.99 but it's worth it to me.

I have my gmail and exchange account on my iphone. It would be great if you could have an inbox that includes any email accounts you have in one inbox instead of having to switch between accounts.

 

i use MboxMail for my hotmail account and its well worth the 9.99$