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ReMail Brings Speedy Full Text Search & Entire Offline Mailbox To The iPhone

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38 pointspclark20 comments

Thanks for posting this!

The title sounds like we're doing full-text search.

But we also do something far more valuabel: We download all your email to your iPhone for offline access. For the first time ever, you can have all your emails in your pocket.

And they take up less space than you’d think: 100k emails need about 500MB on your phone. (=6% of a 8 GB iPhone, the smallest you can buy)

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Do you also download attachments?

Yes, lazily. You open them, they get downloaded, and then remain on your phone permanently. If you have a PDF or something that you always want with you, just open it in reMail and it'll be on your phone.

500MB for 100K equals something like 5KB per message. And that's in the compressed form I assume. Since it's all text, with a decent compression, that's still 20KB of text per message (which I think can be achieved if you strip out the excessive html, styling elements..etc). Still not bad at all to have all mails in your pocket.

"For the first time ever, you can have all your emails in your pocket."

That is one great selling point. That alone means I don't need to be connected to the net to go back to my email and read that blog post (I read several blogs by email).

Also the data could be accessible to other web/mobile/desktop applications that want to harvest it.

Just bought it and synced up to a Google Apps hosted IMAP account with about 3500 emails. It is extremely fast, though in my case, unfortunately very buggy. It crashes when there are no search results, returns emails with the incorrect senders attached to the body and sometimes clicking a search result goes to the wrong email.

Turns out I had it set up wrong. The developer suggested uninstalling and using the Gmail settings (rather than IMAP) to sync my account. This seems to be working fine.

After reinstalling and reconfiguring, search and display of emails works fine but the app crashes after about every 50 emails it syncs.

Just another data point: I've been testing a pre-release version of reMail for the last month without any real problems or crashes. My setup: gmail (not IMAP), iPhone 3G, 3.0 OS.

I bought reMail 1 and just bought 2? this was not a free upgrade? Either way worth it. Downloading everything is very cool.

Also is it possible to have multiple accounts in the app? My gmail and IMAP? or 2 gmails - regular and corp.

Well, it's really a new product, from the ground up. Somehow calling it "reMail 2.0" caught on.

We're working on multiple accounts. Should have that in a few months. That'll be a free upgrade :-)

A few months! Aw. That's the only feature missing that I can't live without.

The product is extraordinary. I also think its awesome how in the face of them rolling out search on the platform, you upped the value game significantly.

This is cool. But I really want to use the Mac mail client with your database. I assume I have to use your mail client too?

There's no way to extend iPhone Mail (e.g. like you can extend Outlook). If you send emails from reMail, however, they will be sent through iPhone Mail.

I thought the iPhone supported server IMAP searches since 3.0?

Subject line only

And From / To. The "All" button in iPhone Mail refers to "From + To + Subject" - it doesn't mean "body" :-)

Can has Yahoo! mail support please?

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