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It's a shame an email client needs a back end.
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
It's a shame an email client needs a back end.
- harmonic 14y agoKey features of mailbox - email snoozing, lists etc. would be hard without backend support.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoCare to explain what those features are?
- smackfu 14y agoLists are just IMAP folders. Email snoozing needs some kind of backend, but it doesn't really need access to your GMail account credentials. The backend could just re-send you the email normally.
- pixelcort 14y agoiOS has an API to schedule a client-side notification without server-side involvement.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoIt does (Local Notifications) but to set those the app would need to check for new email and if it finds any create the notification. AFAIK on iOS it can't check for the email in the background, the app would need to be open (removing the need for the notification).
- smackfu 14y agoIt's really just an iOS issue. Apps can't run in the background to check mail and give notifications. So you need to check the mail on the server and send a new mail notification independently of the app. The weird side-effect of this hack is that you get a notification of a new email, then you open the Mailbox app and it has to go retrieve the new email from the server.
- eberfreitas 14y agoOh! So that is why? I always wondered why that happened with Gmail. It just didn't make any sense to me...