MyMail

myMail App

Developer(s)	My.com
Operating system	iOS, Android
Website	mymail.my.com

myMail is a mobile app for managing multiple email accounts created by My.com, a subsidiary of Mail.Ru Group. Recognizing that consumers have more than 3 email accounts ^[1] and that email communications - particularly through mobile devices - will continue to increase through 2017, myMail was developed to help users manage their email communications.

Using POP/IMAP, SMTP and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocols, myMail provides real-time, customizable notifications, data compression for sending/receiving email traffic and sophisticated search.

myMail was released in the U.S. for Android and iOS (iPhone and iPad) mobile platforms in November 2013. It is now available worldwide through the App Store (iOS) and Google Play. Its clean user interface and design has been called ‘a joy to look at and a joy to use. ^[2]

Primary Functionality

Managing multiple email accounts from one mobile app
Customizable push notifications: Turn off/on by time of day, by email account, by folder or by sender. Hide sender name or subject
Avatars and icons: Avatars and icons make email a personal experience by visually indicating the sender of email
Swipe gestures: touch screen gestures for moving between email accounts and for managing individual or multiple emails. Gestures reveal icons for marking as read/unread, delete, move to folder or marking as spam
Support for major email account services such as Gmail, Yahoo!, Outlook, AOL and most POP3 or IMAP email services
Data compression which speeds up email delivery decreasing data usage
Ability to preview/forward multiple attachments without downloading to the device
Ability to attach multiple images to an email in one step
Smart search function searches through all email accounts and suggests word phrases based on previous email content
Address book integration

Supported Email Services

myMail automatically defines the settings for most email providers (Google Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com (including Hotmail and Office 365), AOL Email, Xfinity.com, QQ.COM Mail, 163.COM Mail, Mail.Ru – Mail, Yandex Mail, 126.COM, Orange Mail, WP.PL – Poczta, Web.de Freemail and many other POP3/IMAP service). Additionally, oAuth is supported for those email services who use the standard to verify third-party credentials.

Problems

myMail transfers your username and password of your mail account to the server of the service provider. This server logs into your mail account and downloads your mail. The mobile device gets its push notifications from this russian server ^[3]
Local mailserver, which are not reacheble from the internet, can't be used by the app even if the mobile device is in the same LAN as the mailserver

References

↑ Email Statistics Report, 2013-2017 http://www.radicati.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Email-Statistics-Report-2013-2017-Executive-Summary.pdf
↑ Make Peace With Your Inbox With myMail http://iphone.appstorm.net/reviews/productivity/make-peace-with-your-inbox-with-mymail/#more-49541
↑ beware! myMail, a popular mail app, stores your passwords on their servers and continues checking your mail even after you uninstall https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/20u712/beware_mymail_a_popular_mail_app_stores_your/

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