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If you dig Mailplane and have an iPhone, check out Mailroom: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailroom/id355023563 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailroom/id35502

If you dig Mailplane and have an iPhone, check out Mailroom: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailroom/id355023563 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailroom/id355023563 We've been inspired by (and are also addicts of Mailplane) but hated Mail.app, so we started enhancing Gmail's Mobile UI.

pclark 17y ago
I've been looking for an app like this for a long time. Do you have an email? Have lots of feedback.
- alexknowshtml 17y ago
  Awesome! Feedback welcome. Send to: alex@indyhall.org
pclark 17y ago
here's some i initial feedback... first launch open the "Add account" window instantly username = email address? one account = change view to the client inbox rather than the "accounts" view? The "address book" button doesn't work: says I need to be composing an email in order to add a recipient - despite being on the compose screen thought about offering push notification for $n/month? I'd pay $1/month for it. you need a website to pitch mailroom to users :)
- alexknowshtml 17y ago
  you've already identified a bunch of things in our plans for cleanup and tuning. As far as push goes, I talk about it here: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/02/mailroom-gmail-on-the-iphone-for-busy-people-built-by-busy-people/ http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/02/mailroom-gmail-on-the-... but the gist is this: In order to accurately update badge icons over push, we’d need to store email addresses and passwords on a server somewhere, and that’s a security risk that we can’t figure out how to justify. I know I wouldn’t want that info out there, and I have to imagine that our users wouldn’t like it either. We're hoping to find a more elegant way to do badge counts over push, but in the mean time, aren't offering it. Suggestions welcome. And that website's launching this week to answer a lot of these questions, solicit feedback, and share some of the totally awesome testimonials from the userbase so far.
krav 17y ago
Alex, how does your search on Mailroom compare to Remail? I loved Remail's wicked fast search on my iphone.
- pclark 17y ago
  the gmail iphone web search is awesome, mailroom uses that.
  - alexknowshtml 17y ago
    indeed, we're wrapping the webkit UI of gmail mobile, which has standard gmail search baked right in. Our app lets you easily switch between multiple gmail and google for your domain accounts, gives you access to your iPhone's native address book, offline support, and a few other goodies...and there's a lot more in our development pipeline. the entire feature process is similar to mailplane though: we look at mobile gmail and say "how could we take whats already there and make it beter" or "what's missing and how can we add it"? Big upcoming features include things like HTML email reading and the ability to add attachments, both major features missing from Gmail Mobile.
- alexknowshtml 17y ago
  remail is 100% native search, because it's storing all of the mail locally. we can't quite touch that, but now that Remail is open source...maybe we'll take a look at what they've got going on. One of the issues that I've had personally is that I can't search across multiple inboxes. Maybe using some of Remail's guts we can figure out how to make that work.
mikeyk 17y ago
a hearty endorsement here for Mailroom: it takes exactly what I love about Mailplane on the Mac (switching between accounts; better at-a-glance indication of new messages; letting Gmail be Gmail instead of shoving it through IMAP and suffering through the sync/search/etc issues that will inevitably happen).
- alexknowshtml 17y ago
  Thanks, that means a lot!

pclark 17y ago

I've been looking for an app like this for a long time. Do you have an email? Have lots of feedback.

alexknowshtml 17y ago
Awesome! Feedback welcome. Send to: alex@indyhall.org

pclark 17y ago

here's some i initial feedback... first launch open the "Add account" window instantly username = email address? one account = change view to the client inbox rather than the "accounts" view? The "address book" button doesn't work: says I need to be composing an email in order to add a recipient - despite being on the compose screen thought about offering push notification for $n/month? I'd pay $1/month for it. you need a website to pitch mailroom to users :)

alexknowshtml 17y ago
you've already identified a bunch of things in our plans for cleanup and tuning. As far as push goes, I talk about it here: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/02/mailroom-gmail-on-the-iphone-for-busy-people-built-by-busy-people/ http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/02/mailroom-gmail-on-the-... but the gist is this: In order to accurately update badge icons over push, we’d need to store email addresses and passwords on a server somewhere, and that’s a security risk that we can’t figure out how to justify. I know I wouldn’t want that info out there, and I have to imagine that our users wouldn’t like it either. We're hoping to find a more elegant way to do badge counts over push, but in the mean time, aren't offering it. Suggestions welcome. And that website's launching this week to answer a lot of these questions, solicit feedback, and share some of the totally awesome testimonials from the userbase so far.

krav 17y ago

Alex, how does your search on Mailroom compare to Remail? I loved Remail's wicked fast search on my iphone.

pclark 17y ago
the gmail iphone web search is awesome, mailroom uses that.
- alexknowshtml 17y ago
  indeed, we're wrapping the webkit UI of gmail mobile, which has standard gmail search baked right in. Our app lets you easily switch between multiple gmail and google for your domain accounts, gives you access to your iPhone's native address book, offline support, and a few other goodies...and there's a lot more in our development pipeline. the entire feature process is similar to mailplane though: we look at mobile gmail and say "how could we take whats already there and make it beter" or "what's missing and how can we add it"? Big upcoming features include things like HTML email reading and the ability to add attachments, both major features missing from Gmail Mobile.
alexknowshtml 17y ago
remail is 100% native search, because it's storing all of the mail locally. we can't quite touch that, but now that Remail is open source...maybe we'll take a look at what they've got going on. One of the issues that I've had personally is that I can't search across multiple inboxes. Maybe using some of Remail's guts we can figure out how to make that work.

mikeyk 17y ago

a hearty endorsement here for Mailroom: it takes exactly what I love about Mailplane on the Mac (switching between accounts; better at-a-glance indication of new messages; letting Gmail be Gmail instead of shoving it through IMAP and suffering through the sync/search/etc issues that will inevitably happen).

alexknowshtml 17y ago
Thanks, that means a lot!