Comments on: The iPhone’s long-missing two-pane email client

By: Mexican_gecko

Mexican_gecko — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:29:07 +0000

All great ideas. I would like to see the ability to create new folders and then set rules for them right on the iPhone. I spend most time away from home and my computer so this would be very helpful.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:14:03 +0000

When I read email with my iphone, my computer mail program cannot access my email server anymore.
It seems the server is blocked when the same account is accessed from 2 different sources at the same time.
Is it a server problem or a recurrent issue with users of iPhone and Macs.

What could I do if I need to have my phone active while working with my desktop with the mail application checking constantly for emails
Rgds
Carlos

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By: Bill Hawk

Bill Hawk — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:01:49 +0000

Long-time Win user, trying the iPhone:

1. Neat device, I like almost all of its features.
2. The e-mail client really needs work, I don’t know if the Mac OS-whatever client is like this, but this one sucks.
3. MMS is a neat capability, why not provide it?
4. The e-mail really does suck – I bought the phone for road use in my business, based on experience with the Windows Mobile OS. The Win phone was clunky and slow, but it sure offered flexibility and e-mail capabilities that this device does not offer.

I’ll probably wind up foisting it off on one of the kids and buying the HTC Fuze – more expensive, but works better and much more suited to adult-type usage. The iPhone seems good for listening to music and surfing the web, but I’m way past the point of dancing around grooving on how cool I look – I need performance, and the iPhone is just not making the cut.

By: graeme

graeme — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:47:30 +0000

hi,
does anybody know how i manage email contacts on the iphone?
i want to delete some but have no idea how to do it
cheers

By: Dan Milward

Dan Milward — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:27:56 +0000

Brian, thanks for the IMAP suggestions. Now I too have the following sorted.

1) Spam
2) Rules
3) Deletion

But. WTF. You can not forgive apple for not including a search. Apple is becomming more like microsoft everyday. It’s lock down central!!

I am more tempted to jailbreak my phone everyday. Based on good honest principals. Apple… Please give us a real email client.

By: dee

dee — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:18:24 +0000

i really want to like this device, but two months in now, and I’m having serious regrets that both the bb8300 and treo750 were put out to pasture.

The interface hinders all productivity. Example: I get an email w/ contact information enclosed, IF the phone had intergrated copy and paste one could simply copy details and paste to new contact and sync for backup.

Instead I have to go and add this manually to my contacts.. by keying it in either desktop app or via phone and then sync for backup.. Extra steps = time lost.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:15:37 +0000

The lack of search within email client befuddled me way more than non-existent copy/paste. It’s insane. Why would this feature ever go against any vision that Steve Jobs has for the iPhone? It doesn’t. It is stupid ridiculous that iPhone email client does not have a search function.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:58:07 +0000

I read all the comments here / well skimmed them… and nobody requested a search feature??

should be pretty easy to implement through IMAP

By: Gully

Gully — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:09:18 +0000

As an enterprise user I love and hate the email client on i-phone. The ability to open powerpoint in landscape actually means I can follow a presentation from my phone when on calls away from my office. Similarly the view of excel attachments is excellent.

However I find the email client to be very basic in its functionality. I receive over 100 mails a day and without ant filtering its easy to lose track of email. Specifically i need to sort/search fir emails by sender, subject or date. Without these features the i-phone is a poor cousin to blackberry.

I suggest Apple recruit some expertise in from RIM now they have launched the enterprise email version, or at least get a blackberry into their R&D labs to compare functionality – its clear that the device is only playing at servicing the needs of a business user.

Also I noticed that if your contact is created in the address book on your pc/mac and then synched with the i-phone then the contacts picture is still displayed by the contacts name and the wallpaper remains visible, however if the contact is created on the i-phone then the picture fills the whole screen when the contact calls.

Nevertheless its still a very cool device overall.

By: mitch

mitch — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:39:41 +0000

i think most everyone is forgetting one thing. this is a mobile device. its software is not meant to totally replace that which is on your desktop. sure you can check email and delete and send a picture. they cannot add everything to it or it just going to either force them to make the device even bigger or it will be so difficult to navigate to use that you will wish they just went back to basic features. if you want to delete multiple emails (using gmail for instance) then get to a desktop computer that is internet capable (definatley no shortage there) and log into your gmail and do it from there! if you want multiple panes then log into your desktop computer! i think this cell phones are getting REALLY close to giving a computing type experience but they are not quite all the way there yet.

By: iphone

iphone — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:51:02 +0000

nice little feature, but what I like the most is all those extra soft. you can get for the phone, ok also wallpapers, example here http://www.desktopexchange.com/gallery/Iphone_wallpaper but mostly the software.

By: Doug Green

Doug Green — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:57:11 +0000

The complaints i have are 1) the frequency that the client checks for mail (15 min), and the alarm upon receipt is so muted and breif as to be useless!!

I receive competitive orders by email . . . If I don’t get them someone else will.

I feel frustration.

By: Wood

Wood — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:17:57 +0000

also missing is a “Send As” (sender alias/impersonation) functionality.

i’m forwarding all my e-mails to my MobileMe account so that they are pushed to my iphone. (therefore, i only need to setup one e-mail account on my iphone: MobileMe)

however, when i reply to e-mails such as those addressed to my other domains i would like to reply as the same domain… but since my settings on iphone is for MobileMe… my replies are sent as me.com all the time.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:04:55 +0000

Does anybody miss having access to websites with FLASH?!! I do! Please tell me I’m not the only one that hates surfing along in wireless bliss to smash into a Flash-only website!!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:09:07 +0000

About the confusion with the contact photo on the iphone.

I’ve spent a while experimenting and found out basically how it all works.

If you set your contacts on the computer in windows or on mac address book etc and copy the photos into the application in the os, then sync down onto the iphone. The contacts photo will be a small one next to their name, without a large background.

If you select the contact from within the iphone from your photos or camera reel it’ll come up as a large background photo.

Okay? With me so far?

Now. It gets a little complicated. If you have a contact photo you set on the computer then synced down, so it’s a small contact, then go into the iphone and select ‘edit the current photo’ resize a little then resave. It’ll change to a large one from now on and be used as the background.

If you set a contact photo from within the iphone, then sync the contact onto your desktop app, then re-edit that photo in the desktop app it’ll change it back down to a smaller one when it syncs again.

Phew! So that’s the mystery solved.

Although there’s one thing. I’ve seen from screenshots online before where a person calling has both a small photo then another background photo too. I have no idea how to do that! I’d love to have that.

I really hope (although I know it won’t happen until a third party app is released) being able to browse contacts with their contact photo in the list, or as a gallery with the name underneath. At least when viewing a contact in non-editing mode touching their photo should bring up a large preview no? Otherwise it’s a right hassle to see it. :-/

Hope some that’s helpful.

By: uninc

uninc — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:18:13 +0000

Yes the iPhone mail client is inefficient.
When I tried the first time to add my Hotmail account I discovered that Hotmail is not supported.
So I tried to set up my Gmail IMAP account and I found it quite difficult. Obviusly I can’t access to it at work because a corporate firewall closes the ports needed by the Mail client to establish a connection. Sigh!
Finally I started to use some web mail app and I found one at http://www.tm.comvalid.com that works good.
But I’d like to have the same freedom using the Mail client, too.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:36:01 +0000

I agree with #3 ChiliMac. Give me SOME way to get back to my email accounts list fast. Clicking that darn back arrow gets old really quick.

By: Tom Baker

Tom Baker — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:50:08 +0000

If the two-pane Mail view were to be released in a future firmware update for both the iPhone and the iPod touch, I would suddenly find using Mail on my touch so much more important, and much more like a desktop experience. Does Apple not see the value in this?

By: Brian Slick

Brian Slick — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:03:45 +0000

#17 hit it. IMAP is your friend.

I personally have addressed nearly all of my mail complaints by simply leaving my home computer on all the time. My regular mail client handles all of the spam filtering and application of rules. Deleting mail from the phone dumps the messages into the trash folder, and eventually the desktop machine will blow them away according to the rules I’ve specified. So to repeat, I’ve covered:
1) Spam
2) Rules
3) Deletion
without any intervention beyond what I was already doing. IMAP is great.