any iPhone mail suggestions
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- iamjustoneman
Hi all,
I have been a mac user for around 7 years, for sometime now, I have been creating rules, folders etc. in Apple Mail. Everything is nicely organised with client folders etc.
I got an iPhone last week and started playing around. The iPhone mail is very different to the apple mail, but what would be the best way to take my workflow forward. Ideally, I would not get the SPAM I currently get on my iPhone, also, when I read an email on my iPhone, I would like it to come through on my other macs, but as read.
I have looked around, app. I need to change my POP emails to IMAP, I did this with a couple, but Apple had a bit of a fit when trying to copy around 5 years of emails over to a new account.
Should I be using Google Mail someone along the line, currently, I am using IMAP through my dedicated server.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks
- Jnr_Madison0
Run it all through gmail, then you can set rules for what happens.
- iamjustoneman0
is there anything I can do with the old POP emails I have in Apple Mail, there are a good few years worth there?
- Jnr_Madison0
I'm not sure about apple mail but I used to use Thunderbird and connected to my new gmail with IMAP than copied and uploaded my 10 years worth of old mail into gmail. Took a little while but no hassle.
- kalkal0
Yeah, should be the same with Apple Mail. Setup imap with gmail and transfer all your old stuff to "All Mail"
- or like me, into individual folders so I could add labels easily.Jnr_Madison
- That tookalkal
- iamjustoneman0
Ok, I'm gonna do that now, I have SpamAssasin on my server, but agree that nothing comes close to gMail.
- I find it better to access one account on various machine rather than having to forward read / unread mails etc.Jnr_Madison
- to different accounts. I have 4 different email accounts all running through gmail.Jnr_Madison
- iamjustoneman0
by the way, anyone know if there is a guide for migrating from apple mail to gmail?
- kalkal0
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure that your old account doesn't need to be IMAP enabled, just the new gmail account...
- raf0
Your yesterday's thread, hast thou abandont it?
http://www.qbn.com/topics/595734…
- j1983m0
how do you add folders to your inbox in mail on the iphone?
you can select emails and say where you want them moved to but currently only have trash or draft.
- Jnr_Madison0
- not sure I do prefer labels to folders, maybe I need to get into the google mail ethosiamjustoneman
- you get used to it, don't worry, I was the same. Labels are just folders in a weird way.Jnr_Madison
- raf0
Thanks Jnr, looks like something that could be achieved with http://fluidapp.com/ to some extent too. I don't like Gmail interface at all though, I'm just looking for a mail client that allows me to mark emails better.
Google doesn't implement IMAP properly, they use labels instead of folders. The result is, every single mail with a label is downloaded twice and takes twice as much space - once as All Mail, once as labeled.
- Meeklo0
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=…
Hey budddy.
If you want to get rid of spam, let gmail host your email instead of your own server. Its free, its faster, very easy to manage, add addresses, remove ones, no one will ever notice, and their spam filter is UNMATCHED.