IzyMail

iPod touch: Your Mail is here

12-Nov-2007

Many have asked about the missing mail application on the iPod touch and here are the good news of the day:

Mailcoaster

is the first installation-free, jailbreak-free email application for Apple's iPod touch.

Watch out: MailCoaster can be used without special cracks which might render your device useless in the near future.

Mailcoaster leverages the proven IzyMail technologies and works with virtually any email address, not just Webmail accounts.

So, if you have an address like …@mac.com, …@comcast.net, …@gmx.de, …@free.fr, or anything like that, MailCoaster is the right thing for you.

What else can be said about a simple and fast email application:

• You can send & receive
• Forward and reply
• View attachments
• … and more

A note from the IzyMail support team

2-Aug-2007

Monitoring the IzyMail support line for incoming tickets can sometimes be a little dry, since the typical questions do not vary much. Many cases can easiliy be solved with one or two sentences and a response template. In that respect, the FAQ section has helped us a great deal to keep the volume of support tickets low.

Except ...

... well, except when you receive a letter like this:

To Izymail Staff:

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! Your company is wonderful!!!! I tried everything to 
push my newer Hotmail accounts to my Blackberry with no success but your 
company delivered! I was about to give up until I found your company. I'm 
happy to become a subscriber after trying it out. Thanks again!

Warmest Regards,
St[...] Ma[...]
      

Thank you, St[...], very much for your friendly message. We are glad to welcome you and will certainly do our best to keep you as a satisfied customer.

Thanks again for taking the time to write and send the note. You certainly made my our day ...

IzyMail and the great iPhone launch

4-Jul-2007
Sometimes, it is really nice to be hit by a surprise ...

Just hours after the iPhone sales launch, we noticed a substantial increase in IzyMail registrations and mail downloads. Luckily enough, we had just recovered from a hard disk failure on one of the systems and were back at full capacity.

We were well aware of the upcoming iPhone launch but had not anticipated a big impact on IzyMail. It took us a little while to realize what was going on. As it turned out, people were coming in from popular mobile phone or Mac forums, for example

• Howardforums
• Everything iPhone
• MacWorld
• MacForums
• MacRumours
• AppleInsider
• Yahoo Answers
• Apple Support
• ... and a number of others

All those postings essentially said the same: IzyMail is the solution for Hotmail on iPhones. While Google gradually picked up the forum threads and started to show them in its result listings, it directed even move users to our site. The rush began to become a little frightening, but IzyMail handled the extra load quite nicely, just a little slower than normal.

To the best of our knowledge, the forum posters are correct :-) At this time, we not aware of an alternative solution which would integrate MSN and Hotmail into the iPhone mail application. We are certainly proud to be the only provider of such services in the world.

We would like to send a warm welcome to our new customers to ensure them that we are strongy committed to the IzyMail solution and will do everything possible to satisfy your needs related to our service.

Hotmail (MSN, Yahoo, ...) and iPhone

Following the release of the Apple iPhone, we are getting a lot of questions whether IzyMail would make it possible to download Hotmail to iPhones. The simple answer is:

Yes, and we welcome our new customers.

Since the iPhone has built-in support for the IMAP mail synchronization protocol, some people have questions about that as well.

IzyMail does support IMAP as a bi-directional synchronization protocol, i.e. changes like read/unread / delete / etc. would be reflected on the Hotmail account (and vice versa).

However, since the specifics of IMAP implementations vary greatly between devices and since we currently have little operational experience with iPhones, please be aware of some of the potential gotcha's :

• IMAP is often perceived slower than simple POP3 downloads.
• If your mailbox is quite large, IzyMail may need to do a lot of work to safisfy the synchronization requests from your device. Performance greatly depends on the number and size of messages as well as the number of subscribed folders.
• It is usually best to keep the number of messages reasonably low (200-500 per folder) and to archive old mail frequently. An XXL-Inbox with thousands of messages is hard to manage through an IMAP link.
• Also, subscribing the device to an archive folder with 10,000 messages is not a very good idea and will significantly slow down the IMAP synchronizations.

All in all, it is a new experience for you as well as for us. We are certainly watching the current rush, will check the specific behaviours of the iPhone email application and adjust IzyMail's inner workings as needed.

1-Jul-2007

Hotmail (Yahoo, AOL, ...) forwarding

9-May-2007

Some of our customers have reported that Google's Gmail collection engine works too slow or does not deliver messages in time. We have checked the dynamics of the Gmail machine and as it turns out, the Google people have programmed it in a way that it only runs once per hour and only gets 200 messages or less per download cycle. For many of our customers, this is not enough.

Since Hotmail to Gmail forwarding is such a popular use of IzyMail, we have decided to implement a better forwarding engine right into IzyMail. The new feature is currently being tested and will be released shortly. A preview of the future look of the IzyMail Control Panel is available here.

This will become an exciting new feature of your IzyMail acccount with options that you will not find anywhere else, like:

• Flexible retention times: A copy of all forwarded messages will stay in your Hotmail Inbox for a period of time, such that lost messages are for sure a thing of the past.
• Configurable retrieval intervals: For our premium subscribers, there will be an option to have new messages forwarded soon after they arrive, much faster than the Gmail hourly retrieval interval.

While the IzyMail forwarding feature was inspired by the popular need to forward Hotmail to Gmail, it is not limited to that. In fact, it will forward to any other email address, for example Blackberry or T-mobile mailboxes.

Gmail Import

3-March-2007

Import Hotmail into Gmail

Javed Mandary has published instructions for importing Hotmail into Gmail.

Thank you, Javed.

Sent Messages

28-Feb-2007

Save a copy of sent messages

We are now implementing an exciting new feature into your IzyMaail subscription. IzyMail can now automatically save a copy of all your outgoing mail into the webmail 'Sent Messages' folder.

While this unique feature of your IzyMail account is already useful with your desktop email application, it proves to be even more valuable when using IzyMail with your PDA, Pocket PC or Smartphone. All outgoing mail from all devices can finally be kept in one place and accessed from everywhere.

The new IzyMail 'Sent Messages' capability is currently available for Hotmail and other Windows Live accounts and we have made it an option of your account.

To activate the option, please tick the 'Sent Items' checkbox on your IzyMail control panel.

IzyMail Update

6-December-2006

Speed improvements

As mailboxes and mail messages tend to bigger and bigger, some of our customers were seeing slow-downs and timeouts while large messages were being downloaded.

The latest IzyMail update contains a number of changes to improve the overall responsiveness of the system. Download speed has almost doubled which should be very noticable with large messages containing photo or video attachments.

IMAP IDLE / Push mail services for Hotmail and other webmail systems

We are proud to announce IMAP IDLE support in IzyMail, a new feature which essentially enables pushmail for your Hotmail account. With a compatible email application, you will be instantly notified of new incoming mail, without the need to schedule a send/receive.

A growing number of mobile and PC applications can listen to the IDLE notifications from IzyMail. Please check with your application vendor or support team.

IzyMail Version 3

We are proud to announce IzyMail version 3, a major update to the well-known IzyMail Online system. Version 3 has been rebuilt from ground up for improved functionality, reliability and speed.

New and improved features

• Message download via POP3 and IMAP from major webmail providers like MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL.
• Sending messages via SMTP with authentication. Your legitimate outgoing mail is less likely to be classified as spam.
• New IzyMail control panel to manage options and settings.
• Custom folder support via POP3. Retrieve messages from all of your folders, even on small, mobile devices.
• Message-age filter to enhance the speed of message retrieval. Only the most recent messages will be downloaded, for example to unclutter the limited storage of your PDA.
• Read/unread filter to further speed up. Only new and unread messages will be brought to your PDA.
• Automatic folder markers to simplify custom message rules.
• Better support for IMAP SEARCH and other commands.
• Faster and better IMAP folder synchronization and re-synchronization.
• A very significant speed improvement for large mailboxes.

FREE registration 

Manual Upgrade

At the end of the implementation period, all existing registrations and subscribers will automatically be brought over to version 3.

For a limited time, you can opt to participate in a preview of the new system and upgrade manually.

How to switch?

If you would like to switch right now, simply change the incoming server names of the IzyMail Online account in your eMail application:

Upgrade Timeline

September 1, 2006

IzyMail V3 is online. Pre-announcement sent to existing customers.

September 9, 2006

Switch the IzyMail website. New registrations and subscriptions accepted on V3 only.

September 18, 2006

Switch all active users to V3. Old system is made unaccessible.

Upcoming Features

IzyMail V3 provides the solid basis for further service enhancements over the next months. We are looking into new, innovative features as well as the possibilty to extend the range of supported providers.

Stay tuned for upcoming news.