Inboxes & Accounts Repetition under Mail App?

[amitdoc2b]

I have 5 e-mail addresses that I have always had set up and checked since using previous generations of the iPhone software. Now on the new iPhone 4.0, the same 5 e-mail addresses are listed twice: once under "Inboxes", and once under "Accounts". What is the cause of this repetition? How do I get rid of one of the categories so it only displays my 5 e-mail addresses once, rather than twice?

Edit: I feel there should be a disable option available to disable "Inboxes" since I already have repetitive "Accounts". This option allows people to keep it how it is now versus how it was in the past. What do you think?

 

[samcraig]

I have 5 e-mail addresses that I have always had set up check since using previous generations of the iPhone software. Now on the new iPhone 4.0, the same 5 e-mail addresses are listed twice: once under "Inboxes", and once under "Accounts". What is the cause of this repetition? How do I get rid of one of the categories so it only displays my 5 e-mail addresses once, rather than twice?

Unfortunately I don't think you can. And I don't care for it either.

The top are all inboxes ONLY

The bottom list are "full" accounts (meaning you have inboxes + all the other folders.

Seems redundant and silly to me too

 

[jtara]

It's because of the new "all inboxes" feature, I guess. And it's perfectly normal.

They've simply gathered all your inboxes at the top level for convenience. If you want to drill-down to folders, you do it by tapping on one of the accounts.

Apple really does need the new UI guru that they just hired. Not just for a notification system. (I guess he's famous for designing a notification system that doesn't use pop-ups for another phone.)

The old organization of accounts and mailboxes was confusing, as well, because, by default, the display comes-up focused on your most-recently-use inbox, rather than account. It's strange for a drill-down hierarchy to initially come up drilled-down. (e.g. it's drilled-down one level from the top-level "account".) It took me days after I first got my iPhone to figure out how to access different accounts! I know, there's that arrow listing the account name, but I missed it somehow.

And, guess what? Now under 4.0, Inboxes and Accounts in aggregate are called "Mailboxes". This is clearly not true! Somebody needs to get a dictionary! An account is NOT an mailbox! Argggghhh! This is just sloppy, slooppy UI design, without thinking of how the user will perceive it.

One more: Mail *still* doesn't include mail received directly in folders (other than the inbox) in the badge numbers, nor do they badge folders. I arrange to have a lot of my email pre-sorted into folders. And, so, the iPhone mail system is pretty non-functional for me.

There's nothing wrong with your phone. It's just bad design.

 

[Gryzor]

Funny, I have outlook rules set on my exchange account to sort mail into folders, and my unread mail counter is just fine, at the top level and in sub-folders. You must be using it wrong.

 

[jtara]

Funny, I have outlook rules set on my exchange account to sort mail into folders, and my unread mail counter is just fine, at the top level and in sub-folders. You must be using it wrong.

Perhaps that is unique to Exchange.

I am using IMAP. (Rackspace Mail.)