[Christopher Lindsay]

Are there any apps for email that can manage multiple accounts, have a live tile that tells the total amount of unread emails (instead of newest email since last opened), had signature support, and isn't sluggish on the 1520?

[streifenleopard]

I am using the standard app and have 2 accounts (used to be 3), it's not sluggish and it has signature support...

[dov1978]

The built in App is working pretty good for me. Used to suck on 8.0 as you had to download each and every email before viewing. 8.1 has the 'automatically download all emails' option. However I've found that if I'm having a long email conversation with someone, once the email convo gets to around 400kb in size it will stop automatically downloading and revert to having to hit the download button or start a new conversation with that person altogether.


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[Christopher Lindsay]

It doesn't display total unread email in live tile or in the actually app. It's super stupid to lack such basic stuff.

[johnskrilla]

What is the built in app called? I think I deleted it

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[Christopher Lindsay]

I take this silence as no one has any alternative that's actually good.

[vimajm]

Metromail , it is really advanced with almost all features, but it still needs some polish and few fixes here and there

[ttsoldier]

It doesn't display total unread email in live tile or in the actually app. It's super stupid to lack such basic stuff.

Ikr. My Blackberry from how many years ago did this basic thing. I think it's stupid.

I think it's also stupid that you have to pin subfolders on the start screen because you don't get notifications for sub folders.

Hell, even when you pin it, it still doesn't notify you. Very stupid

[fardream]

Except not being able to attach documents and not supporting my work email EAS policy, the email client is sufficient to me - still I do hope we can make a lot of noises (tweet Joe Belfiore etc) to force them know how we think about their work

[Christopher Lindsay]

Except not being able to attach documents and not supporting my work email EAS policy, the email client is sufficient to me - still I do hope we can make a lot of noises (tweet Joe Belfiore etc) to force them know how we think about their work

I think you should be able to attach documents through the "files" app.

[Christopher Lindsay]

Metromail , it is really advanced with almost all features, but it still needs some polish and few fixes here and there

I tried metro mail and it's super sluggish on my 1520. Plus it doesn't display the unread mail on a live tile.

[James8561]

huh? you're like the only one I know that hates the built-in mail app. I think it's the absolute best email experience ever on a phone.
and for the record it CAN manage multiple accounts (even merge them into one single inbox), HAS signature support, and DOES NOT lag since it is built into the OS.
if you want a count of how many unread emails (within the sync time allowance, say 1 week or 2 week synced) then just tap ..., tap folder, then the number is in parentheses.

[Christopher Lindsay]

huh? you're like the only one I know that hates the built-in mail app. I think it's the absolute best email experience ever on a phone.
and for the record it CAN manage multiple accounts (even merge them into one single inbox), HAS signature support, and DOES NOT lag since it is built into the OS.
if you want a count of how many unread emails (within the sync time allowance, say 1 week or 2 week synced) then just tap ..., tap folder, then the number is in parentheses.

i have 3 accounts. Knowing how many unread emails I have seems like s really basic feature and still the built in app doesn't do it.

[cnjvh]

Link your inboxes. Open any one of your mail accounts, pull up the setting bar and select Link Inboxes. Now you will get one live tile showing the unread mail count for all your accounts.

[vimajm]

Actually I too dislike the built in mail app , but its really smooth when compared to metromail , but lacks few UI elements and advanced features.

[hammondfamily]

How about spam filtering? That feature would be very helpful.

[Christopher Lindsay]

How about spam filtering? That feature would be very helpful.

Spam filtering should be apart of your email service. The phone only displays what your service should already be doing.

[Christopher Lindsay]

Link your inboxes. Open any one of your mail accounts, pull up the setting bar and select Link Inboxes. Now you will get one live tile showing the unread mail count for all your accounts.

I don't think you understand my issue. My issue is that it doesn't show me the total amount of unread emails.it only shows me new emails since the last time I've opened the mail app. And even when I click the unread section in the app it still doesn't show how many emails are unread even if my accounts are linked together.

[hammondfamily]

That's what I thought it should be doing but with my yahoo account the filtered email still makes it into my inbox on my WP. Not sure why.

[Christopher Lindsay]

That's what I thought it should be doing but with my yahoo account the filtered email still makes it into my inbox on my WP. Not sure why.

That's weird. Not sure why that's happening. Is it in your inbox when you check again on yahoo?

[jleebiker]

I don't think you understand my issue. My issue is that it doesn't show me the total amount of unread emails.it only shows me new emails since the last time I've opened the mail app. And even when I click the unread section in the app it still doesn't show how many emails are unread even if my accounts are linked together.

MetroMail will show you the total # of unread emails. You can pin tiles specific for each account you add to it. The pinned tiles will tell you the number of NEW emails and when you go into the tile, you can see the total number of unread emails like you want. I don't know of one that will show you the # of unread ones on the tile itself.

[Christopher Lindsay]

MetroMail will show you the total # of unread emails. You can pin tiles specific for each account you add to it. The pinned tiles will tell you the number of NEW emails and when you go into the tile, you can see the total number of unread emails like you want. I don't know of one that will show you the # of unread ones on the tile itself.

I know metro mail will at least show me in the app itself but its just really slow and sluggish on my phone. Not sure why its that way. May not be optimized for WP 8.1.

[fardream]

I think you should be able to attach documents through the "files" app.

No, it's different. If I hit reply, I should be able to attach a document to that reply; sharing from Files will create a new email/email thread.

[fueledbygin]

If you're looking for fast, smooth, full-feature third party email clients for WP 8/8.1, you're out of luck. Metromail is full-featured, but like all the third party email clients on the platform, is rather slow.

The fastest app is, of course, the basic mail app that comes with WP 8/8.1, but it's also severely lacking in features.

Unfortunately, this is rather systemic of the platform. Try to find a calendar app that isn't just a wrapper for the built in calendar, as another example of either:

a) Poor platform apis
b) Poor developer skills
c) Some combination of the two

..that are available for WP. :(

At the moment, I make do with the built in mail app, after spending a ton of time on the actual email services working on a gazillion filters so as to keep the inbox manageable. I do miss things like "tabs" and other basic organizational concepts email apps on other platforms have had for...a while now.

And, yes, Metromail has this type of stuff, but it is so freakin' slow. I'm not sure if I can really fault them, as I don't believe I've encountered any third party email app (not that there are many) for WP 8/8.1 that isn't super slow.

There is a "new" app that is supposedly in the works that at least looks pretty/like something you might be able to find on iOS or Android. No idea if they've managed to make an imap client that is actually fast for the platform. But, you can keep an eye on it for its eventual beta release at: http://www.maestroapp.com/ which their latest update claims will come out this month.

[jleebiker]

Basically I need Push notifications for more than the # of mailboxes currently allowed by WP. Metromail allows me to do that.