iOS IMAP app with selective notifications?
September 11, 2013 12:02 PM
Is there an iOS IMAP app with selective notifications? I'm trying to move away from gmail and also perhaps Ultimate Notifier.
I presently use filters on gmail to apply a "Notify" label to messages from particular recipients. Ultimate Notifier's server checks gmail for messages with that label & sends notifications to their app on my phone.
I can continue to use Ultimate Notifier with a folder in fast mail.fm and use the included Mail.app, but I prefer labels to folders (so other mail host recommendations are welcome) and I like the gmail app. I'd also like to avoid giving my email login to U.N.
I presently use filters on gmail to apply a "Notify" label to messages from particular recipients. Ultimate Notifier's server checks gmail for messages with that label & sends notifications to their app on my phone.
I can continue to use Ultimate Notifier with a folder in fast mail.fm and use the included Mail.app, but I prefer labels to folders (so other mail host recommendations are welcome) and I like the gmail app. I'd also like to avoid giving my email login to U.N.
I found a better way. Using the VIP feature means the email has to show up on the phone to be checked against the VIP list and cause a notification. So, I'd have to turn on polling.
Ultimate Notifier and Boxcar have magic email addresses that cause a push notification to be issued to the app on the phone. (<user>@push.ultimatenotifier.com or <user>push.boxcar.io) fastmail.fm has forwarding rules, but I didn't want my email messages sent in their entirety to U.N.
It turns out fastmail has "advanced" forwarding that lets you send only a summary, "squeezed" summary, notification only or run a Sieve script so the notification message doesn't even have the sender (default is sender & recipient email addresses).
Another trick that fastmail can do to help MobileMail.app behave more like Gmail.app is rewrite your From line in the message header. I have my own domain which forwards to webmail but iOS Mail sets From to the same value as the SMTP username. fastmail.fm can change this to the address of your "Personality" with "SMTP force From"
posted by morganw at 3:32 PM on October 27, 2013
Ultimate Notifier and Boxcar have magic email addresses that cause a push notification to be issued to the app on the phone. (<user>@push.ultimatenotifier.com or <user>push.boxcar.io) fastmail.fm has forwarding rules, but I didn't want my email messages sent in their entirety to U.N.
It turns out fastmail has "advanced" forwarding that lets you send only a summary, "squeezed" summary, notification only or run a Sieve script so the notification message doesn't even have the sender (default is sender & recipient email addresses).
Another trick that fastmail can do to help MobileMail.app behave more like Gmail.app is rewrite your From line in the message header. I have my own domain which forwards to webmail but iOS Mail sets From to the same value as the SMTP username. fastmail.fm can change this to the address of your "Personality" with "SMTP force From"
posted by morganw at 3:32 PM on October 27, 2013
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posted by primethyme at 1:49 PM on September 11, 2013