Mail Notification, Can't Get it to Work, Can You?

What do you mean it doesn't work?

To clarify, setting "notify" doesn't affect the frequency with which you receive emails. If you have push enabled, all emails are still pushed; if you have fetch enabled, all emails are still fetched at the same frequency; if you have manual enabled, emails are still fetched manually.

All it means is you can customise the notification style for emails you set to "notify" as a distinct category of mail.

By default mail doesn't show on lock screen or show a banner or alert. By default 'notify me' does. You can change how they appear though, in Settings > Notifications > Mail.

 

Set an email/thread to "Notify me". Go to Settings > Notifications > Mail. You should see this list:
Exchange
iCloud
VIP
Thread Notifications

The top two let you set up the notification style for Exchange and iCloud emails, and then you can override those settings for emails from VIPs and for emails set to notify you.

The term "notify me" is pretty poor, because theoretically you could set it up to show less notification than the defaults for Exchange and iCloud! (I'm someone who has banners and lockscreen set up for all emails, I don't personally have much use for this new option. At best I could make it play a different sound)

So to answer you question, the difference is whatever you decide it to be. By default the difference is that you get a banner and it shows on the lock screen, which doesn't happen for normal emails.

Sorry if I've missed the meaning of your questions again!

 

Well I'm struggling to understand the fact that if you want the notify me option set on a gmail email it would have no effect correct?

The fact that gmail push is disabled would mean you wouldn't be notified.. Different story i expect if using this feature on iCloud mail tho surely??

 

You would get notified of it as soon as your device gets it (be it via push, fetch, or what have you).