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Mobile App: Getting Some New Features

Our Mobile App is getting some fresh, new features. These new features will add new functionality to the app and improve the user experience. Within the next few months, our app is getting the following features:

• Contact Groups support in Composer
• Delivery Receipt request in Composer
• Password recovery link on Sign In screen
• Advanced timer settings
• New 'About app' screen

 

Now, let's discuss each of these features in more detail to explore how they will improve the user experience.

Contact Groups in Composer – This is a collection of email addresses. You can use a contact group to send an email message or meeting invitation to all the addresses at once.

Delivery Receipt request in Composer – A delivery receipt confirms delivery of your email message to the recipient's mailbox, but that's not to be confused with a read receipt. A read receipt confirms that the sent message is now open. 

Password recovery link – A link to Mail2World's advanced password reset tool will now appear right on the login screen of the Mail2World mobile app. Users will be able to reset their passwords more efficiently with this link and not need to contact support as frequently. This feature will only appear on the Mail2World branded app for the time being.

Timer to undo actions – A more advanced undo timer will be available in settings. This new setting capability allows users to undo most actions within up to 10 seconds. Now they will have the option to set smaller intervals of (3, 5, and 10 seconds) to undo an action.

About screen – The about screen will be redesigned to have a cleaner, more elegant look and provide users with version and smartphone compatibility information.

Mail2World will be releasing the new version of the mobile app very soon. Therefore, be sure to come back here for the latest updates on the mobile app and Mail2World in general.

Calendar Gets a New Look

Our calendar is getting a fresh new look. To help you manage your time more efficiently and get more done. We’re taking your favorite feature form the old calendar and integrating it with a design layout that is more modern, with a new color palette and sleek design, and bringing it to Webmail with a responsive layout that auto-adjusts to your screen size. The new look and feel will make it easier to fully utilize the calendar for your daily needs.
There are a number of other changes to the features in Webmail’s Calendar, too. Now you can see a contact’s calendar as well by adding theirs to your list of “Other Calendars.” You can hide or view their events by clicking the checkbox next to their name.



Of course, you can still add various event types such as appointments, reminders, tasks, and notes. The interface is now more accessible, featuring better compatibility with the sleeker Webmail v12. Additionally, "Day,” "Week,” and "Month" views are now much easier to navigate due to a more simplistic, less cluttered look and feel. All of the Calendar has now been modernized to fit in more within the email platform as a whole.
Another great feature the new calendar has is being able to add attendees to an event you’ve created within the calendar. Adding an attendee will send an email invitation to the recipient when the event is created.

The new calendar was designed with you, the user in mind and how you can easily work with the calendar in order to get more work done quickly and efficiently.

Mail2World will be releasing the new calendar very soon. So come back here for the latest up updates on the calendar.

Advanced Smart Search on the Mobile App

Hello World,

If you've started "losing" emails somewhere in the vast reaches of your mobile email inbox, Mail2World's fast and easy Advanced Smart Search tool will soon be available within its mobile app which can help you locate any missing message you wish to find. Results will appear within milliseconds of typing in a search query. Here's how:

1. Within the mobile app, tap on the Search icon on the right of the navigation bar.
2. From the Search bar, you can search for a particular email with keywords that appear in the All, From, To, Subject and Body fields. Just tap the search criteria you wish to use.
3. For even more specific searches tap on carrot pull-down menu, where you can search for Unread, starred, With Attachments, Date, Folder and Size.
4. Toggle the Unread switch to the on position to search for Unread messages.
5. Toggle the Starred switch to the on position to search for starred messages.
6. Toggle the With attachments switch to the on position to search for messages With attachments.
7. Tap on the Date menu to search for messages with a specific date.
8. Tap on the Folder menu to search for messages within a specific folder. You’ll see a list of all available folders, even user created ones.
9. Tap on the Size menu to search for messages within a specific size range. From within the size menu you’ll select greater than or less than finally type a number for the size.

Advanced is just one of the many features coming to the Mail2World Mobile App.

Four Tips to Better Manage Your Email in 2019

It’s early January, and we are all returning to an endless stream of emails. Most of the emails we receive are not even necessary for our work to be completed. Here at Mail2World, we would like to share the four most important things you can do to truly change your email habits and free up time to accomplish other important tasks related to your business.

Don’t open email first ting in the morning
Don’t open your email the first thing in the morning, unless your business is email like it is for us. Early in the morning is the brain is generally most alert, focused, and creative so it would be best if you focus your attention on your business’s core competencies. Choosing email as your first task of the day can be a wasted opportunity to use your mind for more important tasks for your business. Instead, try starting the day focusing on your main tasks early in the morning and leave email for later in the day. That will be discussed in more detail in the next tip.

Set aside a Block of Time for Email
If you are checking emails throughout the day you are not really focused on the specific task – email. Your attention is dispersed across many tasks reducing your ability to respond to your important emails in a timely manner. Instead allocate fixed times during the day to fully focus on email. When allocating this time, consider these questions:

• How often? Determine in the course of a day how often you should concentrate on email. This depends on the nature of your business and how many mission critical emails you receive through.
• How long? How much time should you devote to answering emails? The answer depends on you. If you only plan on answering email once a day, then we suggest a one or two-hour blog of time. If you plan on having more frequent email sessions, then take the total number of sessions and divide them by one or two hours. The answer to these questions will give you the length of time you should spend in each email session. Whatever you do, don’t check your email on autopilot. Create separation between yourself and your inbox; give yourself time to focus specifically on other tasks.

Create Email Filters or rules
Creating filters, also sometimes known as rules, is another effective way to prioritize messages that bombarding your inbox. Use filters to sort important emails so you know which to tackle first. Sorting messages into separate folders allows for easy organization of messages based on subject or sender, or by personal or business relationship. Incoming messages will automatically be placed (i.e. filtered) into the appropriate folders. To learn more about how to create and use filters and rules, read our “Using Email Filters, Folders and other Tips” post.

Purge Unnecessary Emails
Unsubscribe, delete and file away any unnecessary emails that continuously distract you from accomplishing your daily work goals. Purging useless emails will reduce the need to check emails constantly because they are not in your inbox acting as a distraction. Therefore, purging unnecessary emails is an important step in better email management.

Email should always be used in ways to enhance your business, not as a distraction from it. This is good email management should always be considered.

Is Your Email Provider GDPR Compliant?

Regulations are always changing throughout the world and they can have a tremendous impact on technology companies like ours here at Mail2World. On May 25th the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s the most important change in data privacy regulation in 25 years and anyone who does digital business in (or with anyone in) Europe will be affected.

What is GDPR?

“The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation by which the European lawmakers intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU (i.e. with any business that does business with European customers or partners. The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.

What is Personal Data?

Personal data is defined as any information that can directly or indirectly identify a person. Examples of identifiable information including but not limited to:

• First and last name (combined)
• Bank account details
• Personal email addresses/emails
• Home address
• Media Access Control (MAC) address
• Username/password
• Credit card details
• Financial records
• Biometric data
• IP address
• Data/place of birth
• (Internet) Cookies

What does this mean for business?

For European customers, the new GDPR regulation is great because it gives EU citizens more control over how their personal data is used. As the implementation process continues, the EU and other government agencies continue to review the management of personal data, GDPR may be the first stage in a series of EU rule-changes that may include E-Privacy Regulation and Electronic Communications Codes. 

What is Mail2World Doing?

As an industry leader, Mail2World will continue to ensure the highest level of data security and government compliance for our customers’ personal data. If you have any questions about Mail2World’s new policy changes or its GDPR compliance in general, please don’t hesitate to email the Mail2World team at support@mail2World.com.