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Mail Notifier: push for almost any email account on iPhone

What I really want / need is something like this that allows me to see via badges the number of emails for each account! How to accomplish this is not as easy as it seems. 1) Different color badges on one icon? 2) Multiple icons, one for each account that maybe could be customized (color, name).

Then if I touch the icon it either directly jumps to the inbox of that account (in the case of option #2 above) or pulls up a menu of the accounts that have new mail available for them, or if just one account has mail to it directly for option #1.

Make sense? Any idea if these things are possible?
 
derek13 said:
Are you using POP3 to get your hotmail or an app like mboxmail?

Unfortunately, hotmail's POP3 servers do not mark the emails unread when they are retrieved.
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As far as I know there isn't a direct way of adding hotmail as an IMAP account, unless through another service like izymail.

Unless I'm mistaken? Alternatively I can setup forwarding from the hotmail account to a gmail account. But that is only possible via Hotmail Plus IIRC.
 
derek13 said:
We updated the code in the server and it now shows which account the push notification is for when you have multiple accounts.
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Thanks a lot for listening, I just tried it in both accounts and it's working great now, so I must say, the App is 95% done, if you find a way to open the Mail App with an go or ok button then it will be 100% done and definitely a huge success. Keep up the good work.
 
When finally approved this is going to be one great app!!

I have been using it for over a week and it works flawless.
 
After I posted here yesterday then the App has been missing frequently the Hotmail emails. I noticed it last night when I opened mBox and for my surprise there were a couple of emails, well I removed the accounts and re-added them, and now that I could finally used my phone ther were mails again.

I don't know about Gmail because I don't think that I have received any emails since this morning but was wondering what could have changed since it was working so great until yesterday.
 
erasat said:
After I posted here yesterday then the App has been missing frequently the Hotmail emails. I noticed it last night when I opened mBox and for my surprise there were a couple of emails, well I removed the accounts and re-added them, and now that I could finally used my phone ther were mails again.

I don't know about Gmail because I don't think that I have received any emails since this morning but was wondering what could have changed since it was working so great until yesterday.
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Honestly I would not use this app with the hotmail functionality. Hotmail unlike Gmail currently does not offer IMAP access. For those who are less technical, what this means is that in order for this app to provide you push functionality, you must first hand them your username and password and they will log into your hotmail webpage manually to see how many mails are unread. If you are fine with someone opening your hotmail web page then go ahead. Personally that's not what something I can live with.
 
It missed again, my MacRumors' email is Hotmail, so the email that notified the reply above missed again. I don't know, it began missing when derek posted this:

<<We updated the code in the server and it now shows which account the push notification is for when you have multiple accounts. >>

So my question is, is just a coincidence or changing the code to accomodate for the Email Account Name in the alert message caused this?
 
Just to see what happens and to be sure that everything was right with the App, I uninstalled it, and re-installed it, and so far has pushed perfectly in both, Gmail and Hotmail, will let you know if it changes.
 
Hope it works out, I'm sure GPush had a great beta test too, but once they RTM it couldn't handle it.
 
derek13 said:
Is hotmail working well for you now?
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It missed one earlier and then got 2 in a row fine, now it has been missing again, in fact, the email notifying of your reply didn't push, just saw your post and knew that I should had an email, so I opened mBox to see it and it was there since 3:45PM, but never Pushed.

I don't know if I saw right, but earlier the last email that was pushed, just said, new Mail, there was no more details, did you change something?
 
I'd really like this app but I have doubts on it's secuirty. Does the OP want to clarify how this works and what protections he has in place?
 
Not recognizing non English characters for me anymore.

It's been working great for me, I get all notifications.
 
erasat said:
It missed one earlier and then got 2 in a row fine, now it has been missing again, in fact, the email notifying of your reply didn't push, just saw your post and knew that I should had an email, so I opened mBox to see it and it was there since 3:45PM, but never Pushed.

I don't know if I saw right, but earlier the last email that was pushed, just said, new Mail, there was no more details, did you change something?
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We made some changes/fixes during the weekend. Let me know if you are still experiencing issues. May I ask which device you are using?
 
intrepid00 said:
I'd really like this app but I have doubts on it's secuirty. Does the OP want to clarify how this works and what protections he has in place?
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All account credentials are transmitted over a secure socket connection and it is encrypted. All passwords are encrypted so no one sees them.

Of course the system does have to login to know if there are new emails to push. Gpush and PushGmail has to do this as well - there is no other way.

Our company enforces strict privacy of all data and there should be no concern whether or not our system is safe.
 
derek13 said:
All account credentials are transmitted over a secure socket connection and it is encrypted. All passwords are encrypted so no one sees them.

Of course the system does have to login to know if there are new emails to push. Gpush and PushGmail has to do this as well - there is no other way.

Our company enforces strict privacy of all data and there should be no concern whether or not our system is safe.
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Excellent Derek, thanks for the explanation.
 
ilkevinli said:
I wanted this also and asked him this exact question during the beta. Derek told me that its not possible because Apple doesn't give developers access to launch the Mail app (and other default apps im sure) in the iPhone SDK.
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Though it's not a Push e-mail client, Prowl has this sort of feature in their latest version. You can set up a "redirection" to open other apps from the Push notification. Several of the built-in Apple apps are available to choose from.
 
GlowingApple said:
Though it's not a Push e-mail client, Prowl has this sort of feature in their latest version. You can set up a "redirection" to open other apps from the Push notification. Several of the built-in Apple apps are available to choose from.
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This app would be full of Win if it would redirect to Mail.app when you open it! This would only be useful if all configuring was done in Settings. :D

Then I could just hide my Mail.app icon and use this exclusively. :D
 
derek13 said:
We made some changes/fixes during the weekend. Let me know if you are still experiencing issues. May I ask which device you are using?
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I'm using a 3G.

I'm still missing hotmail emails, it is working randomly, I noticed all changes you have done, but it hasn't solved my hotmail issues, in fact, the notification of this reply, seems that it was on hotmail server since 4:35 PM EST but it never got here as a Push alert, in fact I had 2 emails waiting for me there. On the other side, Gmail seems to be working flawlessly.

Like I've mentioned before, it was working great, until you made the changes to accomodate for what I asked you, about giving details of the email account on the alert message. I mean, it may be just a coincidence, but fact is that it was working great until that moment, right after my alerts began to arrive with the Email account on it, I began missing some Pushes.
 
erasat said:
I'm using a 3G.

I'm still missing hotmail emails, it is working randomly, I noticed all changes you have done, but it hasn't solved my hotmail issues, in fact, the notification of this reply, seems that it was on hotmail server since 4:35 PM EST but it never got here as a Push alert, in fact I had 2 emails waiting for me there. On the other side, Gmail seems to be working flawlessly.

Like I've mentioned before, it was working great, until you made the changes to accomodate for what I asked you, about giving details of the email account on the alert message. I mean, it may be just a coincidence, but fact is that it was working great until that moment, right after my alerts began to arrive with the Email account on it, I began missing some Pushes.
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After some debugging we figured out what the problem was. It should be fixed it now. Can you try again and report the results?

Thanks.
 
derek13 said:
After some debugging we figured out what the problem was. It should be fixed it now. Can you try again and report the results?

Thanks.
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Ok, I'll keep you updated. So far I had 3 pushes this morning and when I checked I had 2 hotmail emails and 1 from Gmail, so it worked great this time.
 
I can confirm all of my hotmails are pushing through just fine. I am testing from 2 different hotmail accounts.
 
Also with the speed vs another mail push app, Mail Notifier had it beat by almost one min.

Mail notifier - 15 seconds
Other - 1:10

I know there might be a lot of factors involved, but testing from one location with a weaker 3G signal those were my findings so far.
 
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