MailFai on your phone
The MailFai app has your mail on your phone, with notifications and a lock of its own. It is free.
- Install MailFai from your phone's app store.
- Sign in with your mailbox: its address, then its password or app password (the same as on the web), and the code if you use two-step verification.
- Allow notifications if you want them, and choose whether Face ID or a fingerprint should lock the app.
The tabs at the bottom: Mail (its number is the unread conversations in your inboxes), Contacts, Files (the files in your mail) and WhisFai, which opens the WhisFai app or, if you do not have it, its page in the store.
At the top: ☰ opens your mailboxes, folders and labels. With several accounts the search field names the one you are in (Search in and its name, or Search all accounts); it opens the search with its filters and your last searches. Your picture, with a dot in that account's colour, opens the account sheet: your accounts and all inboxes, Add another account, Manage accounts, Settings, Help, the language, notifications, the lock and Sign out.
In the list:
- The line above the list says which folder you are in. Tap it to go to another account or folder.
- Compose at the bottom right starts a new message; while you scroll down, the button keeps to its pen.
- Swipe a conversation sideways and let go past a third of the way: by default it is archived, with Undo in the message that comes up. Settings → General → Swipe actions chooses for each direction: archive, delete, read or unread, snooze, star, or nothing.
- Pull the list down from its top to fetch new mail.
- Tap the square on a row to choose several conversations; the bar above acts on them.
Files open through the phone's share sheet: open one in another app, save it, or send it. Printing uses the phone's print dialog, and links in mail open in the phone's browser.
The lock asks for Face ID, a fingerprint or the phone's code when you come back to MailFai after a few minutes. Turn it on or off in the account sheet.
Sign out (in the account sheet) ends MailFai's sign-in on this phone and stops its notifications. Your mail stays on your mail server.