The title sounds like we're doing full-text search.
But we also do something far more valuabel: We download all your email to your iPhone for offline access. For the first time ever, you can have all your emails in your pocket.
And they take up less space than you’d think: 100k emails need about 500MB on your phone. (=6% of a 8 GB iPhone, the smallest you can buy)
500MB for 100K equals something like 5KB per message. And that's in the compressed form I assume. Since it's all text, with a decent compression, that's still 20KB of text per message (which I think can be achieved if you strip out the excessive html, styling elements..etc). Still not bad at all to have all mails in your pocket.
Yes, lazily. You open them, they get downloaded, and then remain on your phone permanently. If you have a PDF or something that you always want with you, just open it in reMail and it'll be on your phone.
"For the first time ever, you can have all your emails in your pocket."
That is one great selling point. That alone means I don't need to be connected to the net to go back to my email and read that blog post (I read several blogs by email).
Also the data could be accessible to other web/mobile/desktop applications that want to harvest it.
Just bought it and synced up to a Google Apps hosted IMAP account with about 3500 emails. It is extremely fast, though in my case, unfortunately very buggy. It crashes when there are no search results, returns emails with the incorrect senders attached to the body and sometimes clicking a search result goes to the wrong email.
Turns out I had it set up wrong. The developer suggested uninstalling and using the Gmail settings (rather than IMAP) to sync my account. This seems to be working fine.
Just another data point: I've been testing a pre-release version of reMail for the last month without any real problems or crashes. My setup: gmail (not IMAP), iPhone 3G, 3.0 OS.
The product is extraordinary. I also think its awesome how in the face of them rolling out search on the platform, you upped the value game significantly.
There's no way to extend iPhone Mail (e.g. like you can extend Outlook). If you send emails from reMail, however, they will be sent through iPhone Mail.
The title sounds like we're doing full-text search.
But we also do something far more valuabel: We download all your email to your iPhone for offline access. For the first time ever, you can have all your emails in your pocket.
And they take up less space than you’d think: 100k emails need about 500MB on your phone. (=6% of a 8 GB iPhone, the smallest you can buy)