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Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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After reading this I tried to install an exchange account on my gmail app. It asked for a bunch of extra permissions for the specific exchange account, including the permission to "Erase all data" from the telephone, resetting it to factory settings. Not gonna happen. From what I gather those permissions were requested by the exchange server, so my university would be the one to blame. Why a server would ask for this…

If you are still searching on a solution on this: I were able to solve the permission problem on Android with Mailwise. Apart from the cool exchange feature, it's a fairly average client though.

http://mail-wise.com/faq/#bypass

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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So mixed messages again. Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface or a hobby project that will get closed down in a year? Momentum has slowed and I've become so dependent on it's workflow I'd be gutted if this was the case. However - I don't believe Google will maintain two email clients in perpetuity. On past experience - they'll fold the functionality of one into the other - partially and imperfectly leaving users i…

The only feature Inbox has that I need in Gmail is "snooze". If they bring that over I will stop needing to use inbox.

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Google Apps supports Google Now email-based cards. It needs to be enabled by your Google Apps administrator.

I have never been able to get email based cards for my domain account. How did you set it up?

Instructions are at https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2938260?hl=en. Even though the setting is under Android Settings it does also enable Google Now for iOS.

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Clearly you haven't had the privilege of using Lotus Notes ;-) My anecdotal counterpoint: Gmail is one of the most reliable products I regularly use.

Man, if I could "Gmailify" my Notes inbox (without breaking some IBM proprietary-data rule) that'd be heaven. Verse doesn't come close.

Almaden had a research project called BlueMail which was pretty good. Naturally, it wasn't encouraged outside of Almaden.

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I'm not sure about the US but in Canada it's certainly not true that everyone has data plans (in fact as far as I can tell unless you have a company sponsored phone, data plans are in the minority), and SMS remains a cheap communication method that is more or less guaranteed to work.

I live in Canada, and I don't know anyone who lives here that doesn't have a data plan of some kind, although I'm sure they definitely do exist and there are definitely people without a ton of data.

I'm not sure where you are but I find it quite uncommon for university students.

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I live in Canada, and I don't know anyone who lives here that doesn't have a data plan of some kind, although I'm sure they definitely do exist and there are definitely people without a ton of data.

I'm not sure where you are but I find it quite uncommon for university students.

Really? I don't know many university students that don't have the latest smartphone(or at least a fairly recent one) which usually implies they have a data plan of some kind since most of them don't have $800+ to pay outright.

But to be fair at my university there are also a lot of students that drive brand new or fairly new cars too and I've parked beside too many Porsches the student parking lot.

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