http://tidbits.com/ Mailbox makes processing incoming email easy and fun on the iPhone, but its innovative interface approaches may not be sufficient to make up for the app’s lack of key capabilities and worrying requirement that all your email go through the company’s servers. en-us Copyright 2013 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17934 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:30:25 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17934 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17891 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:29:33 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17891 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17803 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:25:43 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17803
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In essence, in a traditional IMAP environment, a message must live in one and only one mailbox. In Gmail, however, every message can have zero or more labels, so an IMAP client pointing at Gmail can end up showing the same message in multiple "mailboxes." Labels are much more flexible than mailboxes, so there can't be a one-to-one mapping when you're using Gmail via IMAP.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17790 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:06:54 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17790
I avoid going to Gmail via a browser if I can (what a mess!), so I don't think in "Labels." Gmail's "Labels" equate to "Mailboxes" in Apple Mail, so they're just mailboxes to me. I have a good number of "Mailboxes," so would your statement, "... if your email workflow currently makes significant use of labels, then Mailbox is a complete nonstarter." apply to me?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17789 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:28:13 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17789 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17787 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:11:32 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17787 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17785 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:08:43 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17785
Actually, it's quite easy, although a bit hidden. When viewing a message, tap the date on the top right to toggle between read and unread. If the date is blue, it's unread.

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I've been testing Mailbox for a couple of week now, and when trying to reply to a single message in a multi-participant thread, it would quote all replies even if I were just trying to reply to a single thread in that conversation. I had to switch back to the Gmail app a few times in order to do that.

Not sure what changed, but I'm glad it did.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13572?rss#comments_17727 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:42:49 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13572#comments_17727
Not true. Just press on the individual email thread email...it opens up the message so you can respond.]]>