The problem with apps that have stock Apple alternatives is that they always feel second fiddle to the OS. Even apps with tons of better features (reminder apps come to mind) often don't offer the same seamless worry-free integration of relatively bare-bones apps like Reminders
One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks
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Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks
#72I love the Gmail iPhone app. In particular, I love that it lets me change the "from" address, similarly to how the gmail.com site lets me do that. Neither Mail.app nor Sparrow made it easy to change the from. I have a few different email addresses that all get forwarded to my gmail account. Finally my mobile mail problem -- being able to select my from -- is solved. If anyone from Google is reading this, thank you!
It and even works most of the time. I have had it reply with a different email address from the one that an email was sent to
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Not exactly. To send from a different 'From' in Mail.app, first you need to connect your iPhone to additional email accounts (Settings->Mail). Then these addresses will show up in your 'From' drop down. But then you end up with multiple inboxes in your Mail.app. Which is messy, fills up storage, and hurts my brain -- since I never need to check my other inboxes (because all my email addresses forward to the same Gmai…
To send from different mail addresses in Mail.app for iOS with only one inbox, you can add your additional mail addresses to your default mail address in the mail configuration by separating them with commas: default@example.com, additional1@example.com, additional2@example.com, etc. The same trick works for the OS X version of Mail.app
Nice little tip. Thanks
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#75Jeez it is a smack in the face to scroll down and see the iOS Mail app after the beautiful Gmail app.
What is beautiful about the Gmail app? All the grey? I'm all for clean design but I don't exactly see how it's cleaner or nicer than Mail.app.
I use my nexus and the constant grey puts me off. Very little contrast, very little distinction between what is UI and what is scaffolding. If you're going to do a flat design, the elements have to separate themselves from one another -- things have to be distinct. This is a great example of a flat email interface with basically the same layout as Google's client: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ everything being #cecece and shifted one direction or the other isn't.
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#76Totally agree on the text zoom. I like that the iOS app has text under the icons. On gmail web they don't and I have to think a bit before I click an icon. I feel the earlier versions of web gmail were much more intuitive.
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Maps doing stuff in background? That's the location service being used by another app, commonly weather apps. As for G+/Talk, disable sync or sign out of Talk.
Talk works just fine for some reason :) And is location service tied to application named "Maps"? If so, that might really be the case.. although I only have this problem after I use Maps, not when I use other apps that require location.
The location providers on Android are not tied to any one app, but are system level services that apps register with for updates. Location that takes GPS can take longer to acquire fixes and Google Maps will attempt to use the most accurate fix possible, so if the GPS acquisition is slow, maps will be slow.
I totally understand your points, though. I use an older device with roughly the same specs, and when I was using stock 2.3 it wasn't very fast.
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To send from different mail addresses in Mail.app for iOS with only one inbox, you can add your additional mail addresses to your default mail address in the mail configuration by separating them with commas: default@example.com, additional1@example.com, additional2@example.com, etc. The same trick works for the OS X version of Mail.app
Unfortunately this does not work for accounts of the type "GMail", as far as I can see. (Maybe you could configure your gmail account as an IMAP account, but then you lose a few gmail-specific features)
That is correct; if I use the 'Google Mail' setup and add an additional mail address, the IMAP login no longer works since the mail addresses as a whole are taken as username. In the default IMAP setup, sender mail addresses and the user name are separated.
Are there any other Gmail-specific features except for 'Archive'?
My main annoyance with Gmail and local mail clients – including Mail.app for iOS and OS X – is that those clients show mails at least twice due to Gmail's label structure if you enable all labels. I am therefore glad that the new Gmail app for iOS is much more usable. On the Mac, I use Mailplane and Mail.app only for backup and offline usage purposes.
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Not exactly. To send from a different 'From' in Mail.app, first you need to connect your iPhone to additional email accounts (Settings->Mail). Then these addresses will show up in your 'From' drop down. But then you end up with multiple inboxes in your Mail.app. Which is messy, fills up storage, and hurts my brain -- since I never need to check my other inboxes (because all my email addresses forward to the same Gmai…
To send from different mail addresses in Mail.app for iOS with only one inbox, you can add your additional mail addresses to your default mail address in the mail configuration by separating them with commas: default@example.com, additional1@example.com, additional2@example.com, etc. The same trick works for the OS X version of Mail.app
Unfortunately this only works for multiple addresses with the same SMTP account on the same server. All mails you send will be from that account (check the MAIL-FROM field in the SMTP session). If you have separate personal/work accounts, you are stuck.
Gmail allows you to access external STMP servers with dedicated accounts. This allows you to basically use Gmail as a client to your corporate mail server. I've been using Gmail to consolidate all my mail accounts in different servers. It's really nice.
Oh, and threading “just works” in Gmail.
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Unfortunately this does not work for accounts of the type "GMail", as far as I can see. (Maybe you could configure your gmail account as an IMAP account, but then you lose a few gmail-specific features)
That is correct; if I use the 'Google Mail' setup and add an additional mail address, the IMAP login no longer works since the mail addresses as a whole are taken as username. In the default IMAP setup, sender mail addresses and the user name are separated. Are there any other Gmail-specific features except for 'Archive'? My main annoyance with Gmail and local mail clients – including Mail.app for iOS and OS X – is t…
It seems like "GMAIL"-account types have real push? Or at least I'm seemingly getting new mail much quicker than I ever used to get on IMAP?
Plus it integrates much more smoothly into the calendar app as well. Better than fiddling around with webcal links and the very well hidden multi-calendar selector at https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect )
Never had a problem with duplicate mails, in fact I'm having a problem with de-duplicated mails (When I send a mail to a mailinglist, I never receive a copy back that ensures proper list delivery, because it gets de-duplicated to the copy in Sent mail)