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12 Dec 2011, 11:23 PM | #1 |
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Best setup for unified mailboxes?
I'm hoping to migrate our household to fastmail, but struggling with some of the basic concepts despite reading many posts here.
With our previous provider we have four "accounts" (or "mailboxes" as they call them). A large number of aliases then sort our domains and addresses into these accounts. On an iPhone (which is where we read mail most often) they appear as a structure under the unified inbox: Inbox - my mail - business1 - other business - wife's mail With fastmail the approach seems to be to set up one account for me, one for my wife, and make the business accounts into folders under my account. However I think that on IOS (and other mail clients with unified inboxes) this would appear as: Inboxes - my mailbox (empty) - my wife's mailbox (contains incoming mail) Accounts - my mailbox --- Inbox (empty) --- Drafts --- Sent --- Trash --- Inbox ------- my mail folder (contains incoming mail) ------- business mail folder (contains incoming mail) ------- other business mail folder (contains incoming mail) --- Junk Mail - wife's mailbox --- Inbox (contains incoming mail) etc which is quite messy. Furthermore, if I understand correctly, unread mail in my three mail folders does not get counted in the unread mail indicator shown by IOS - that seems to look only at the INBOX. Another option would be to set up my four mailboxes as separate accounts, but this requires fees for each account which doesn't seem appropriate. How have others set this up to look and work better? |
13 Dec 2011, 11:51 AM | #2 |
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Example of iPhone 4S iOS 5.0.1 Mail organization
Welcome to the EMD Forums, anonymouse!
The only iOS device I have is an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1, and I have one corporate Exchange and two Fastmail IMAP accounts set up in the Mail app. Here is how it appears to work:
iOS 5 and mail application access patterns Did that help any? I don't feel that I fully answered your question. Bill |
13 Dec 2011, 02:46 PM | #3 |
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I think this confirms my suspicion: IOS works best when incoming mail goes to several accounts - and fastmail works best (and is priced best) when incoming mail goes to several folders.
I don't think I could handle incoming mail (in folders) not setting the unread count badge so I guess I will have to buy several accounts. |