email rules for iPad

[djfilms]

I want email rules on the iPad, like the filtering rules on my Mac. Reading various posts from various sites, I always see the same answer "Has to be done on the server and you can't do anything about that".

However, consider the following: an app (script?) on the iPad which has rules and runs every 5 minutes and which reads the emails and filters them. Surely some whizkid can write that app or script? In other words, process the emails locally.

Why not? I'd pay a lot of money for that app or script.

 

[Jupiter7]

Most of us, I suspect, would value our privacy and security rather than have some "wizzkid" App reading our mail, even if it were feasible!

 

[twerppoet]

The Mail app can not be scripted on iOS. True scripting requires an app to have a scripting interface. Mail doesn't. A wizkid hacked script would require system level access to Mail, Apple does not allow that.

Could it be doen on a jailbroken iPad? Probalby, but it would be a lot of work. Probably more work with less reliable results than just creating your own email app.

Speaking of which, you might take a look at the AirMail app. It's the most flexible thrid party mail app for the iPad (or so I've heared). I'm sure it has rules.

 

[Thomas1977]

I just use microsofts hotmail/outlook. I don't see anything wrong with that.