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iPhone OS to Gain Universal Inbox for Mail?

Why would this matter? Why would people who want this even have more than one email account? Anybody who does actual work with email already has many folders, maybe dozens or even hundreds, which the iPhone handles better than others I've seen. (haven't seen them all) Repositioning a couple is like trying to save the Titanic by bailing with a Dixie cup.

Give me collapsing hierarchy arrows and we're done. The real Exchange support introduced last summer was the big change.
 
JAT said:
Why would this matter? Why would people who want this even have more than one email account? Anybody who does actual work with email already has many folders, maybe dozens or even hundreds, which the iPhone handles better than others I've seen. (haven't seen them all) Repositioning a couple is like trying to save the Titanic by bailing with a Dixie cup.

Give me collapsing hierarchy arrows and we're done. The real Exchange support introduced last summer was the big change.
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Because we have jobs and there are potential legal and privacy issues using work email for private matters?
 
This is the most annoying feature of Mail.app (IMO). If they do this I hope they are at least mindful of the people who DON'T like to lump all their accounts together like this. At the very least give you the option of turning it on or off.
 
mobi said:
I have 11 accounts on my iPhone, it is a pain to deal with.
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What you have, my friend, is a bit of an identity crisis :p

Seriously, this enhancement would be OK, assuming it will be easy to keep the accounts discernible. I use my personal account and my work account on my iPhone, and I never want the two confused.

But what I really, really want is a way to allow me to differentiate signatures between accounts. Or, at the very least, allow me to turn off the signature on one of my accounts while leaving it on for the other. I have a mandatory signature for my work account, but I don't want that signature on my personal one. I have to manually delete it every time I send from my personal account. What a pain. I like my iPhone, but this is one area where BB has it beat hands down.
 
JAT said:
Why would this matter? Why would people who want this even have more than one email account? Anybody who does actual work with email already has many folders, maybe dozens or even hundreds, which the iPhone handles better than others I've seen. (haven't seen them all) Repositioning a couple is like trying to save the Titanic by bailing with a Dixie cup.

Give me collapsing hierarchy arrows and we're done. The real Exchange support introduced last summer was the big change.
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Work email account = 1
Personal email account = 1

Total email accounts = 2

Or do you get all of your postal mail at the office, too?
 
JAT said:
Why would this matter? Why would people who want this even have more than one email account? Anybody who does actual work with email already has many folders, maybe dozens or even hundreds, which the iPhone handles better than others I've seen. (haven't seen them all) Repositioning a couple is like trying to save the Titanic by bailing with a Dixie cup.

Give me collapsing hierarchy arrows and we're done. The real Exchange support introduced last summer was the big change.
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because sometimes you need to look only at the latest 3-5 emails that come in and you don't want to go through every folder looking for new email. BB does this very well. my iphone buzzes, it's easier for me to check my BB for the message that came in
 
Berio said:
unless i have misunderstood you: what is stopping you from doing this on the iphone now? work fine for me now.
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Berio,
I hope you are right, and I'm doing something not right, or perhaps I didn't explain it well.

If I have cell service or if I am in airplane mode, I can see the various folders and emails within those, but I can not move messages from one folder to another unless I have live service.

Any thoughts/help are much appreciated.
 
ghostface147 said:
Also an option to mark all as read instead of one by one...
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AOL! There are really only two things that frustrate me with iPhone mail: #1 What you just said, and #2: That it can't display attached mails (message/rfc822 MIME type).
 
paparuski said:
While universal inbox would be great, for me , more importantly, would be ability to move messages while off-line. Could do it on my old windows pda and makes great use of time (on airplanes) where you are not connected but would like to clean up / organize.

Then, upon reconnect, the server is updated.

Wishing/hoping....
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Hoping indeed. I don't think that's technically possible, at least not with IMAP. Exchange could maybe do it.
 
To those whining about this feature, get a grip. Its just a "Smart Folder" that aggregates all your Inboxes into a virtual Inbox. Its a nice feature. Adolf Hitler aint goose-stepping into your iPhone.

Wanna see your GMail Inbox separate from your Yahoo Inbox? OK, then just tap that particular Inbox. Done. I dont understand why some of you dont get it. There is nothing to "Turn off". Its just a VIEW.

There is a perfect example of this paradigm on your iPhone right NOW. The iPhone's Calendar app currently does EXACTLY the same thing. Wanna see all your appointments spanning over multiple calendars? OK, then just tap the "All Calendars" button. Done. Just wanna see your work-related appointments? Then tap on that calendar.
 
Oh my God. I have been waiting for this. I have 6 emails on my iPhone, 5 of which are business related and every time an email comes in I have to back out of the email I am in to find the new one. It would also be nice if we could assign a tone or specific notification for each email account.

Still this is a great leap a head in dealing with emails on the iPhone. Two thumbs up if this shows up in the next up.
 
kasei said:
Oh my God. I have been waiting for this. I have 6 emails on my iPhone, 5 of which are business related and every time an email comes in I have to back out of the email I am in to find the new one. It would also be nice if we could assign a tone or specific notification for each email account.

Still this is a great leap a head in dealing with emails on the iPhone. Two thumbs up if this shows up in the next up.
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Indeed. I was an avid chattermail user on Palm, and the thing I really miss is a unified color-coded inbox with the option of splitting the list of files up by date, etc.
 
kasei said:
It would also be nice if we could assign a tone or specific notification for each email account.
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Amen. Customizing email audio tones in general would be AMAZING. I work with 30 people who sit near me who have iPhones and I hear the same DING! and SWOOSH! of email I/O all day long. Nobody has a clue who is who, so we all check our iPhones constantly like we are on meth or something. "Was that you or me?"
 
dstranathan said:
Amen. Customizing email audio tones in general would be AMAZING. I work with 30 people who sit near me who have iPhones and I hear the same DING! and SWOOSH! of email I/O all day long. Nobody has a clue who is who, so we all check our iPhones constantly like we are on meth or something. "Was that you or me?"
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Yea, I have the same problem as well. I see this changing soon too. Ideally with the 4.0 release. I remember when this was a problem with the Blackberry. Everyone had the same tone and one person would get the email and the 20 people sitting close by would all check their phones.

A really funny sign in my opinion is that the "chime" issue with the iPhone shows up everywhere for me. On the train, at a bar, in the restaurant, etc. And its not just with the email, I get the same issue with the text messages.
 
cmaier said:
Because we have jobs and there are potential legal and privacy issues using work email for private matters?
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Yeah. Um, so you want to combine your addresses in order to separate such things? What?

I don't think either Inbox method matters for what you said, as long as you know how to send from the proper account.

I guess as long as both options are still available, this is fine.
 
JAT said:
Yeah. Um, so you want to combine your addresses in order to separate such things? What?

I don't think either Inbox method matters for what you said, as long as you know how to send from the proper account.

I guess as long as both options are still available, this is fine.
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What are you talking about? How does this combine your addresses? All it does is show the messages in the same list. If you reply to a message, it uses the appropriate account to send it. The benefit of this is I don't have to constantly jump between mailboxes to see the mail I've received lately, and it doesn't hurt anything at all.

And the question I was answering is "why would you have multiple email addresses?" I explained why, and you ask "why would you want to combine your email addresses?" Huh?
 
sonictonic said:
For SURE. If this is not an option this new "feature" will really annoy me and make Mail not as usable for my particular needs.
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Come on people. Seriously. All it will be is you will have a new mailbox for "all mail" or "inbox," just like on the mac. It won't take away your individual mailboxes.
 
This is a huge improvement... and it is the biggest thing I missed when I moved from a BlackBerry to the iPhone a few years ago.

I use 4 email accounts:

1) My work email
2) My personal "desirable" email account
3) My personal "junk" email account
4) My Mobile Me email

The second account above is given very selectively mostly to friends, where as the third is used for all of the misc stuff that is generally not critical, and in most cases not even that desirable (stores, misc newsletters, web site registrations, etc). In most cases, I have #3 turned off on my iPhone... and only respond (or mostly delete) from my computer.

I set up rules to auto forward very high priority email to my mobile me account as it has good push support for the iPhone.

/Jim
 
Please Steve, I will donate you my soul if you *don't do this*!!
I don't use Mail.app on OS X for this very reason! (Instead I use Firefox for one Gmail account & Safari for the other, saves signing out/in constantly).

So yeah, please please please don't do this!
 
SuperMacMan said:
Please Steve, I will donate you my soul if you *don't do this*!!
I don't use Mail.app on OS X for this very reason! (Instead I use Firefox for one Gmail account & Safari for the other, saves signing out/in constantly).

So yeah, please please please don't do this!
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Why? How does having the choice of viewing an added combined mailbox hurt you? Your individual mailboxes are still there.
 
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