ReMail brings advanced email search to the iPhone

If you've got a ton of email that you need to dig through very efficiently, the iPhone's built-in Mail app might not be adequate to the task. That's where reMail comes in.

It's a dedicated email search app that connects to your IMAP account to find the message you're looking for. ReMail's featureset is impressive, with an offline mode, autocompletion for your contacts' names, and a very sensible natural language approach to search queries.

Although reMail doesn't support Exchange, it does support any IMAP account -- multiple IMAP accounts, in fact -- which means it works well with Gmail. The only hangup is that reMail provides a lot of its features by indexing your email on its own servers, which means you have to trust them. you didn't expect your iPhone to hold your whole Gmail archive, right?

The reMail privacy policy seems straightforward enough, though, so there's no reason to think they're not on the level. The app is free, and the service is free during beta, but will go up to $3.99 a month after launch.

Tags: email, IMAP, iphone, remail, search