Tag: REMAIL

In what comes as a bit of a surprise move, Google has decided to open-source the code for ReMail, the iPhone app it recently purchased and retired from the App Store. Speculation at the time was that Google was killing the existing ReMail product as a way to gain a competitive advantage against Apple, but Google has maintained that they only removed it because they did not intend to continue ...

We've covered reMail before, raving about the way version 2.0 fixed security issues and did away with subscription fees. Now, the email search and archiving utility has been acquired by Google. reMail's schtick is downloading your whole email archive, attachments and all, to your iPhone, and then letting your search the full text of your email at speeds 5 times faster than Gmail's mobile ...

I have to admit that I was wrong about reMail. When I wrote about version 1.0, I assumed that nobody would have a problem trusting reMail's secure servers to store and index their email messages for faster searching, and that nobody wanted to download an entire Gmail archive to an iPhone. Wrong, and wrong again. However, version 2.0 of reMail addresses these issues by eliminating the need to ...

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 ...