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LightMail Is An Elegant iPhone Mail App That Displays All Attachments In One Place

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Apps like Sparrow gained popularity on iOS owing to the stock Mail client having a lot of shortcomings. Apple overhauled the email experience with iOS 6, but there are some new apps around that have managed to gain a considerable number of users. The Mailbox app experimented by combining mail and to-do lists, which is why people even put up with its waiting queue. LightMail doesn't offer changes that are as dramatic as those introduced by Mailbox, but the new app is still great if you are looking for an improved version of the iOS Mail app. LightMail supports a few gestures for letting you respond to messages quickly, and comes with a section where attachments from all your mails are accessible in one place. It is also possible to easily insert attachments from past messages into mails you are composing on your iPhone. Read More

Supercharge The iOS 6 Stock Email Client With Mail Enhancer Pro

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It has been a little more than a month since the iOS 6 untethered jailbreak was released, but the compatibility list of Cydia tweak has already become pretty impressive. Almost all big-name tweaks have been updated with iOS 6 support in the past month, with Mail Enhancer Pro becoming the latest to hop onto the iOS 6 bandwagon. A lot of third-party mail apps have been gaining popularity on iOS recently, but tweaks like Mail Enhancer can help keep you sticking to the stock Mail app. With the tweak’s latest update, it has gained a few new options as well, which takes its already impressive feature list to a whole new level. There are now advanced notification management options to complement existing functionality like account highlighting, HTML signatures and defining detailed rules for different scenarios. Read More

Mailstrom Helps You Reach Inbox Zero By Deleting & Archiving Emails

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Almost every single time we feature a tool to help sort your emails and manage your replies better, we take the time out to remind you of the importance of getting your act together and reaching inbox zero. We take it all back - you can continue to procrastinate for the rest of your life and still have zero messages in your inbox, thanks to Mailstrom. It’s a simple yet pure genius web service with the aim to help you achieve the much coveted inbox zero. Mailstrom isn’t a magic button that you push to make all your useless emails disappear; the deleting and archiving process is still manual, but the service organizes your emails in such a way that you can tell at a single glance which ones you should keep, and which ones are better discarded. After that, deleting and archiving can be performed en masse and within a few minutes or hours (depending on the amount of emails you have), your inbox should be clean. Mailstrom works with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and almost all other email services. It also lets you unsubscribe to newsletters. Read More

Cloze Brings Its Combined Email & Social Media Feed To iOS

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For a brief period of time, email was the most important part of most people’s online life, but then social networks came along and changed everything. With Facebook and Twitter’s rise to fame, most of us regularly check our social network accounts for messages, in addition to our email inboxes. Since email and social media are now almost equally important, it makes sense to manage and view them in one place. Cloze is a web service that that gathers data from your social network and email accounts to come up with an integrated feed consisting of updates from people that really matter to you, and its iOS app has just made its way to the iTunes App Store. Cloze calculates a person’s importance based on your past interactions, but you can also manually alter this rating to customize your stream. Posts from other contacts aren’t ignored either, and have a separate section of their own. The app has options for both viewing items and corresponding with contacts, making it a one-stop shop for your everyday correspondence. Read More

Easily Mail All Attendees Of A Calendar Event On iOS With ‘Reply To All’

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Organizing a successful event requires frequent correspondence among the host and invitees. Trying to make a new mailing list for every new event is not very practical, and leaves room for some contacts getting left out from the correspondence. There are third-party apps that offer some pretty neat solutions to this problem, but most people prefer using the stock Calendar app in their everyday routine. Reply To All is a really simple app that lets you mail all the contacts that have been invited to a particular event. Reply To All uses the stock Calendar and Mail apps to ensure that you aren’t forced to switch to a new email client or calendar to get such a simple functionality. Read More

Copy & Save Email Content From Mail In OS X With Mail Clips

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Like any other form of communication, its not just an email's content that's important, but also the other information they contain, including email addresses and names, subject, headers, and other metadata. This information can come useful in many circumstances, but most email apps hide it in order to keep everything simple and clutter-free. Mail Clips is a free Mac app available in the Mac App Store that lets you copy this information from a selected message in Mail. You can copy the complete text in a message, its subject, the sender and recipients’ email addresses, their names, the header message and ID, the date and time it was sent on, and the HTML source of an email. It can also save a message in PDF and RTF format, and add the sender and recipients to your address book. While you can do all of this from the Mail app by opening an email, selecting the information and then copying it manually, Mail Clips offers you the short way around. Read More

Airmail: OS X Mail Client With Dropbox Support, Easy Filtering & A Great UI [Review]

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Mail and Sparrow are two of the most popular email clients for the OS X platform. Being the default email client, Mail enjoys a larger user base, while Sparrow is usually preferred by those who have used its iOS variant. Both these clients are quite good in themselves but there will always be room for improvement, new features and better apps. Airmail is a great new option. It is a Mac email client for Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and iCloud that syncs attachments to your Dropbox account, supports multiple accounts, and has an excellent email filtering feature. Let's learn more about this app after the jump. Read More

Find The Email An Attachment Was Saved From In Mac OS X Mail

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A common problem with a bulky inbox is finding emails. Almost every email service and client has a search feature, with some offering very smart parameters for refining the search (like Gmail’s web interface) but still, at times quickly finding the right email can be a pain. Similarly, if you’ve downloaded an attachment that came with an email and are trying to trace it back to the original message, you could be out of luck if you have renamed the file in the meantime, and will likely need to go through several emails individually to find it since for the most part, you are relying on memory to remember who the email was from, or a snippet from the email’s subject. If you’re using the default Mail app on a Mac, though, finding the email that an attachment came with is much easier than you know, as every attachment that you download saves details of where the file originated from i.e. the email’s sender and subject. You can use this to find the original email thread. Read More

Seed Mail Is An iPhone Email App With Reminders, Gesture Control & Priority Inbox

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Ever since all the hype surrounding Sparrow died down, no other email client has gained as much popularity among iOS users. While Sparrow was great, it was far from perfect; the interface didn’t bring anything fresh to the plate, and there weren’t a lot of extra features that would make you ditch the stock Mail app. Looks like the team behind Seed Mail has learned from Sparrow’s shortcomings, since this new release has a gorgeous interface, supports a lot of gestures and is pretty sweet when it comes to handling multiple accounts. If you are not on iOS 6, Seed Mail’s VIP inbox feature alone might be enough incentive for you to grab the app. A refreshingly new concept that has been implemented in Seed Mail is the creation of reminders associated with certain messages. Read More

Attachments+: Mail Any File From Your iPhone & Preview Received Attachments

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Ever since it first came out, the Instamail app has been a permanent fixture on my iPhone, since there aren't many other apps that let you attach multiple photos to emails in one go. If your iOS device isn't jailbroken, sticking with Instamail is your best bet but if you do have access to the Cydia store, Attachments+ is the way to go. This new tweak endows the stock Mail app with a lot of new capabilities related to adding and opening attachments. With Attachments+, you can attach photos, documents, presentations and just about any file that is present on your iDevice. That's not all; the tweak also makes the Mail app smart enough to let users preview files of several formats right within the app itself, without even opening Safari. Read More

Create A Separate Mailbox For Ungrouped/Unimportant Contacts In Mac

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Not all contacts are equally important, which is why people group and sort the important ones so that they’re easier to manage. The contacts you don’t email often, or who send you unimportant emails too often, rarely get sorted into anything more than an unnamed group. If you’re using Mountain Lion and have synced your Twitter and Facebook contacts with the Contacts app, it is likely you’ve got an even larger number of ungrouped contacts. Now imagine those contacts, grouped and ungrouped ones, all emailing you. You have a single mailbox, or perhaps two or three set up, but one or all include emails from the not-so-important contacts and you’d like to sort them so that they have a mailbox of their own (which you can ignore). You can manage them in one of two ways; invest some time and group them properly, or have Smart groups in Contacts and Smart Mailboxes in Mail to do all the heavy lifting. Read More

View Email Notification Alerts For Select Accounts In Mac OS X

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The Notification Center in Mountain Lion is one of its best features but so far, it offers little customization at the app level. You can only choose which apps to receive notifications from and can’t select whether you want a notification for each event / action of the app, or just a few select ones. This limitation is most obvious if you've added more than once account to the Mail app. By default, you receive a notification for new emails received on all accounts. If one of those accounts is your personal account that you don’t want to be bothered with while you’re working, these alerts can be less than welcome. While there isn't an official way in Notification Center to customize notifications for each account, you can work around this one with the Mail app by making use of Smart Mailboxes. Read More

Quote Part Of An Email When Forwarding Or Replying In Gmail & Mail App

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Lengthy email threads are difficult to follow, especially if you haven’t been included in them from the beginning. What makes it easier to follow them is text from old emails that’s forwarded along with a message, but just going through particularly long emails is itself time consuming. Even when you try to keep emails short and to the point, they can become extremely long. Filtering out unimportant information from one of these long emails can take quite a bit of time. A better way to keep everyone in an email conversation informed without subjecting them to the torturous task of reading long emails is to only quote the part of an email that’s important to the discussion. Gmail, the OS X Mail app and its iOS counterpart have a really neat little trick for quoting a snippet from an email when you forward or reply to it. If you select part of the message and then hit reply or forward, only the selected text is quoted in the message body. Read More

Set Follow-Up Reminders For Important Emails With RSVP For OS X

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Going through every unread email in your inbox everyday is how many people start the day, but going through new mail isn’t enough. Often emails from the previous day need to be followed up on, and it takes time to go through the old ones too to check which ones you were expecting a reply for. Even if you overlook the time you spend going through these emails, you can’t brush off the consequences of overlooking important emails, which is why you need a smarter way to keep track of them. RSVP is a Mac app, worth $1.99 on the Mac App Store, that lets you keep track of emails you haven’t received a reply for yet, so that you may send a follow-up mail to check on your recipient. The app beats out general reminder apps as it works with the Mail app and doesn’t ask you to copy a message to it first. It links to the original email so you don’t have to search for it when a reminder pops up. Reminders can be deactivated or snoozed. Read More

iOS 6 Mail App Adds VIP Inbox, Media Attachments & More

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One of the simplest (and very functional) apps that has always been around in iOS is the stock Mail one. It offers all the necessary operations you can hope to find in an email client, and the interface is fairly simplistic. It is good to see that Apple hasn’t changed the Mail app too drastically in iOS 6, but there are still enough new features in it to give it a refreshing feel. Other than some minor interface changes (read “the new pull to refresh icon”), the iOS Mail app now offers a VIP inbox, and you can inset images/videos within mails directly from within the app. While the media attachment option has long been clamored for by iOS users, VIP inbox is a little harder to understand. If you take a close look at your inbox, you are sure to realize that most of your correspondence is with only a handful of people. It is for these frequently contacted people that Apple has added the VIP Inbox feature to Mail. You can configure a VIP inbox in the app, and it will only display messages from your favorite contacts, with the option to choose separate notification settings for VIPs. Read More

Instamail Photo For iOS Lets You Attach As Many Photos As You Want To A Single Email

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iOS is a pretty user-friendly mobile platform, and almost anyone can use it without having to be a geek. Having said that, this simplicity can, at times, cost the OS in terms of functionality. To keep things simple on the surface, there are areas of iOS that can become annoying for users due to their lack of certain capabilities. One such feature is the restriction on sharing photos via email. By default, iOS allows users to attach a maximum of 5 photos with a single email. Even if the photos are a few KBs in size, you will have to keep sending new mails to share more than 5. Instamail Photo is an app for iPhone and iPad that counters this issue by letting you attach as many photos as you want to emails. The mails will still be sent by the default mail client configured on your iPhone, but there will be no hindrance when you try to select more than five images to attach to the mail. Read More

Check: Batch Select Multiple Items In iOS Mail With A Single Touch

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The stock Mail app in iOS is one of the features of Apple’s mobile platform that is used by almost all iPhone and iPad users. There are a few pretty good alternative email clients available for iOS (like Sparrow and the official Gmail app), but none of them have the completeness and efficiency offered by the stock Mail app. However, once you take away the fact the Mail app is developed by Apple, it is a pretty minimalistic and simple one that does not have too many complicated options. While this can prove to be a good feature for most users, for anyone wishing to have a few advanced features in Mail, the app is sure to be a bit disappointing, and, at times, annoying. If you are a regular user of iOS’ Mail, you are sure to know that there is no way of selecting messages in bulk, and you have to tap each email separately if you want to move lots of them to trash or have to mark them as read. Check is a new Cydia tweak that resolves this issue, and using it, you will be able to select or deselect as many messages as you want, and that, too, with just a couple of taps. Read More

Webmailer: Redirect All Mailto: Links To Open In Default Browser [Mac]

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A while back, we reviewed RCDefaultApp, a Mac preference pane that makes it easy to set default apps in your Mac. The only slight shortcoming with the pane was that it wasn’t developed for Lion and might act a little glitchy. Webmailer is a free Mac preference pane that helps you redirect mailto: links to your web browser or any other app that you would like to handle all your email through. This is built specifically if you aren’t a fan of Mail and would love a different way to handle emails. The preference pane handles mailto: links that originate in a third party app, and redirects them to the app you want (like your browser). Read More

[Giveaway] Mailsum: Mac Email Client That Tells You How Well You Handle Your Mail

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If you’re someone who operates more than one email ID, and most people usually juggle a work and personal ID, you know that it isn’t always easy to manage the two side by side. Additionally, email is one of those things that just eat away at your time; if you don’t read/answer email, your work gets hampered, but if you set to answering every single email, you might just end up neglecting other important tasks. It’s one of the double-edged swords of modern day. Mailsum is a Mac app worth $4.99 that might help you manage your email better; the app gives you insight into how you handle email on your Mac. It gives a detailed account of how often you send and reply to emails, how much time you take to respond to an email, how many go unanswered and much more. Read More