One of the most exciting new features for iPhone users is the ability to search your MobileMe email account.
Limitations - the fine print
From my testing and what I can tell, here's what exactly can be done:
- if you do a search and you can't find something, you will be given the option to search on the mail servers for MobileMe
- however, the search is only confined to that folder.
- Spotlight search seems to be able to search across all folders, but doesn't look like it's capable of doing searches on MobileMe server.
What does this mean? Fewer folders = better!
If you organize your email in a lot of subfolders, this search feature isn't that useful. The trick is to just have a few folders - for example, if you don't categorize at all, you might have an inbox and an archive. Or you might just put everything in your inbox, then everything is searchable.
Personally, I have 3 folders in addition to my inbox.
- Archives
- Waiting for
- Useful
Since I keep all my mail on MobileMe, I'm loving this feature! Can't wait for the iDisk app now.
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