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quickest email app??

Zmmyt

Zmmyt

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Hi!

My wife uses Spark, Edison and Mail to receive emails. They all seem to be rather slow. She needs her email delivered fast to be able to bid on jobs that become available and people can bid on. Speed is essential in order to not be late the party.

Any suggestions how to speed things up?

She uses her iCloud email address.

thanks!
 
Why do you think it's the mail apps that are the problem rather than the iCloud mail service?
 
Tymmz said:
We tried Gmail which was equally “slow”.
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Gmail (excluding the paid Google Workspace edition) would be slow when using the Mail app as it fetches mail periodically instead of it being pushed immediately.

Have you tried using Gmail directly with Chrome/Safari? That should give you an instant notification when new email is received.
 
mystery hill said:
Gmail (excluding the paid Google Workspace edition) would be slow when using the Mail app as it fetches mail periodically instead of it being pushed immediately.

Have you tried using Gmail directly with Chrome/Safari? That should give you an instant notification when new email is received.
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Having it run in the browser won’t work since we are away from a computer most of the time. It has to go through phone or watch.
 
Tymmz said:
Having it run in the browser won’t work since we are away from a computer most of the time. It has to go through phone or watch.
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Try using Gmail with the Gmail iOS app and see how that works? I know you said that she has an iCloud mail account but it wouldn't hurt to test Gmail using the app to see if that's any faster.
 
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mystery hill said:
Try using Gmail with the Gmail iOS app and see how that works? I know you said that she has an iCloud mail account but it wouldn't hurt to test Gmail using the app to see if that's any faster.
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Good idea. we will try this
 
It does sound like she should move to a service that provides reliable PUSH emails to mobile devices and use an app that takes advantage of them.

I don't use iCloud email so I can't testify on how quickly mail comes in. I do know that an Office 365 account set up as Exchange on my iPhone is just about immediate.

Having said all that you could try setting up a forwarder at the iCloud email website and forward mail from the particular sender to her cell carrier's email-to-SMS address (for example 5552223333@vtext.com for Verizon). Those sometimes come in faster than PUSH email.
 
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BrianBaughn said:
It does sound like she should move to a service that provides reliable PUSH emails to mobile devices and use an app that takes advantage of them.

I don't use iCloud email so I can't testify on how quickly mail comes in. I do know that an Office 365 account set up as Exchange on my iPhone is just about immediate.

Having said all that you could try setting up a forwarder at the iCloud email website and forward mail from the particular sender to her cell carrier's email-to-SMS address (for example 5552223333@vtext.com for Verizon). Those sometimes come in faster than PUSH email.
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SMS to email looked like an interesting alternative but our carrier seems to handle it like an MSM which unfortunately is quite costly in the long run.
 
BrianBaughn said:
It does sound like she should move to a service that provides reliable PUSH emails to mobile devices and use an app that takes advantage of them.

I don't use iCloud email so I can't testify on how quickly mail comes in. I do know that an Office 365 account set up as Exchange on my iPhone is just about immediate.

Having said all that you could try setting up a forwarder at the iCloud email website and forward mail from the particular sender to her cell carrier's email-to-SMS address (for example 5552223333@vtext.com for Verizon). Those sometimes come in faster than PUSH email.
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I created an outlook account and signed up to the free 365 month. it seems the mails come in super quick, it might be exactly what we were looking for.

question: will we need to subscribe to 365 to take advantage of the exchange server or does this come included with a free email account?

thanks.
 
Did you create sign up for a personal Microsoft 365 subscription?
Is it an ‘outlook.com’ email address?
 
Outlook.com addresses are free. Office 365 is a paid solution. If a free one seems to work well just go with that. No need to buy a domain name and use the paid service.

The webmail system for both is the same these days.
 
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Outlook.com addresses are free. Office 365 is a paid solution. If a free one seems to work well just go with that. No need to buy a domain name and use the paid service.
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I think they were asking because Google doesn’t offer Exchange push for the free Gmail service - it’s only available for those that are on the paid subscription.
 
Tymmz said:
it seems the mails come in super quick, it might be exactly what we were looking for.
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You will continue to receive mail at the same speed even if you don’t pay for the subscription after the free trial month.
 
mystery hill said:
You will continue to receive mail at the same speed even if you don’t pay for the subscription after the free trial month.
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this sounds all very promising. thanks for the advice. it might actually enable my wife to get a few more jobs

more jobs = more £££

happy days
 
One thing you can do to get near instantaneous notifications about E-mails is to set your provider to carbon copy forward E-mails to your cellular provider's SMS gateway.

For example, with AT&T it's nnnxxxyyyy@mms.att.net -- When an E-mail is sent there you will receive it as a text message fairly quickly.

Obviously this isn't good for a high volume situation, but if your job depends on immediate responses to incoming E-mails it may be an option. E-mail was not designed to be an instant messaging system.
 
zorinlynx said:
One thing you can do to get near instantaneous notifications about E-mails is to set your provider to carbon copy forward E-mails to your cellular provider's SMS gateway.

For example, with AT&T it's nnnxxxyyyy@mms.att.net -- When an E-mail is sent there you will receive it as a text message fairly quickly.

Obviously this isn't good for a high volume situation, but if your job depends on immediate responses to incoming E-mails it may be an option. E-mail was not designed to be an instant messaging system.
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Already considered and rejected above.
 
zorinlynx said:
One thing you can do to get near instantaneous notifications about E-mails is to set your provider to carbon copy forward E-mails to your cellular provider's SMS gateway.

For example, with AT&T it's nnnxxxyyyy@mms.att.net -- When an E-mail is sent there you will receive it as a text message fairly quickly.

Obviously this isn't good for a high volume situation, but if your job depends on immediate responses to incoming E-mails it may be an option. E-mail was not designed to be an instant messaging system.
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someone suggested this already, but it seems EE in the UK handles such SMS like MSM, which will cost you. Shame!
 
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