iOS email apps?

stickyfiddle

What's good? My work have just installed a bunch of stuff that puts work mails in the default mail app instead of the separate one I had until yesterday. This is good for my own workflow, but means I now want to separate out my personal mails into another app so I don't get confused.  I need an app that can do gmail, live/outlook and icloud in one place, which rules out the gmail app.

I've heard Airmail, Outlook and Spark are all good - has anyone used any of them?

octatonic

Airmail is great.
It replaced Mac Mail for me which has been a nightmare.
I use it on OSX, not on iOS though.

Jalapeno

Doesn't Googlemail have it's own App ?

stickyfiddle

Jalapeno said:

Doesn't Googlemail have it's own App ?

Yep, but it doesn't work with anything except gmail accounts, so no good.

Axe_meister

I used Outlook but our corporate security guys say we can only use native apps for email

guitarcookie1

I'm using Airmail on Mac & iOS. Find it much easier to organise stuff & handle attachments than Mail.

stickyfiddle

Have downloaded airmail for iphone. I'll give it a week and see how I'm doing then move to it on mac too if I'm happy. 

grungebob

I just use the iPhone mail app. Add each account separately and they get their own inbox. 

stickyfiddle

grungebob said:

I just use the iPhone mail app. Add each account separately and they get their own inbox. 

Yes, but that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid - I don't want any overlap between work & personal email for various reasons. Not least that I want my work emails on the second home page and my personal ones in the dock.

BigMonka

I use the Outlook one for my hotmail account and must say that I'm not a fan of the app - not as nice to use as the gmail one so personally I would look elsewhere before outlook.

TimmyO

I'm on the Airmail beta so have been using it for some time - it's streets ahead imo. Also v nifty how the account config can sync across your iOS devices (and even to Mac) 

Other apps are good for other things. I use Unibox to blast through backlogs of emails (presents them by sender rather than chronologically) 

Outlook app on iPad is very good for work - leave it open to the side of my coup and its filter does a good job of only pinging on the 'real' stuff.

grungebob

stickyfiddle said:

grungebob said:

I just use the iPhone mail app. Add each account separately and they get their own inbox. 

Yes, but that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid - I don't want any overlap between work & personal email for various reasons. Not least that I want my work emails on the second home page and my personal ones in the dock.

maybe im not understanding the question right then.
I just use the iPhone app and dont let it combine all the inboxes that way you go to one app but all mailboxes are seprate and each can be checked, read replied separately, is that not what your after?

stickyfiddle

grungebob said:

stickyfiddle said:

grungebob said:

I just use the iPhone mail app. Add each account separately and they get their own inbox. 

Yes, but that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid - I don't want any overlap between work & personal email for various reasons. Not least that I want my work emails on the second home page and my personal ones in the dock.

maybe im not understanding the question right then.
I just use the iPhone app and dont let it combine all the inboxes that way you go to one app but all mailboxes are seprate and each can be checked, read replied separately, is that not what your after?

No, I want totally separate apps for personal and work, largely so that when I'm not working I can completely ignore one app and still have full access to personal email. It's largely an attempt at retaining some degree of work/life balance which will absolutely evaporate (even more than it already has!) if I let it.

I like totally separate notification settings too (i realise this can be done to an extent within a single app).

chrispy108

Totally agree with you, but my way of working won't work for you, unless you get your personal accounts down to just gmail. I use Inbox (by Google) for personal, and Outlook for work.

Neither make sound notifications or pop-up to the front screen (e-mails are very rarely as important as texts IMO), but I don't have any notifications on my work e-mail, and it's buried on the last page. I have my work e-mail on my phone so that I can check it if I need to get something from it and I'm away from my computer, not so that I can be hassled outside hours by people who like to send e-mails at 9pm to look busy.

bingefeller

For iOS I just use the normal built in Mail app and it works well.

For Mac OS  I use Thunderbird.  

stickyfiddle

Have just spent 2 weeks with Airmail and honestly it's doing my head in being very slow to sync. 

Have put Outlook on this morning and so far it's much better.

sev112

Don't understand your issue
i use ios and have 3 separate accounts - work, personal and the one I give out to all and sundry so mostly rubbish in that one
none of the accounts overlap and I just click on the account I want when I need it.
when I go abroad I just turn the work one off temporarily so that I don't get loads of data heavy emails coming in, then switch it back on when I get back to work

stickyfiddle

sev112 said:

Don't understand your issue
i use ios and have 3 separate accounts - work, personal and the one I give out to all and sundry so mostly rubbish in that one
none of the accounts overlap and I just click on the account I want when I need it.
when I go abroad I just turn the work one off temporarily so that I don't get loads of data heavy emails coming in, then switch it back on when I get back to work

it's because I want to be able to see only work emails in one inbox, and all my personal emails across 3 accounts in the other inbox. I also want to ensure that I can't send a work email from a personal address by mistake (and vice versa). Neither of these things can be done in Mail alone. 

And turning off my work emails is (unfortunately) just not an option. 

Snap

I have recently started on Outlook iOS for work only, Perfect tbh. Completely separate to all my private stuff, so I can happily turn off from it when I am not at work. One thing that was an arse was that when it was first installed it pulled all my contacts out so that I "lost" a ton of contacts from my phone. I had to go into the outlook settings and alter that, then they reappeared.

TheMarlin

stickyfiddle said:

grungebob said:

I just use the iPhone mail app. Add each account separately and they get their own inbox. 

Yes, but that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid - I don't want any overlap between work & personal email for various reasons. Not least that I want my work emails on the second home page and my personal ones in the dock.

But you also get an 'All Inboxes' folder.  So all you mail comes into one place. 

stickyfiddle

TheMarlin said:

stickyfiddle said:

grungebob said:

I just use the iPhone mail app. Add each account separately and they get their own inbox. 

Yes, but that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid - I don't want any overlap between work & personal email for various reasons. Not least that I want my work emails on the second home page and my personal ones in the dock.

But you also get an 'All Inboxes' folder.  So all you mail comes into one place. 

Yes, which means my personal and work are completely mixed, which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid!