InstaMail

Please read the About page for a description. Below you can find a quick configuration and usage tutorial

Creating a New Account

The first thing you need to do after downloading the app is to create your account@instamail.me. For this you have to go into Configure and type a username, password and email address. Please remember your email address because you will have to re-enter it each time you re-login. The account is active immediately after it is created but notifications will start to be sent after 10-20 minutes. You will also receive an email at the email address you provided. In this email you have a link and an activation code. You have to activate your account in the first 24 hours after you created it. Otherwise the account will be automatically deleted from the server.

InstaMail - Sign in

Adding Email Accounts

After you create and are logged into your account you have to add email addresses from which you accept email messages. Since the InstaMail account works just like an email address, probably pretty soon it will be clogged with spam. By adding your accounts you make sure you only receive notifications from your email accounts.

InstaMail Forwarded Email Accounts

InstaMail notification received

You can add up to 10 email address from which you want to forward emails.

Adding Filters To Your Forwarded Email Accounts

(available from version 1.1 or greater)

If you have a high traffic email account, or you only want to be notified for certain senders, you can set this option in the filters section of the app.

After you add your forwarded email accounts, your Email section should look like this:

Notice the right arrow on each row. By tapping a row you will access the filters section for that row. By default no filter is present. Let’s say for the me@home.com email address you only want to be notified for emails coming from wife@home.com. You have to tap me@home.com, hit the plus sign and add wife@home.com.

No email filters are present

Added wife@home.com

All you have to do now is to resynchronize your data so that your filters will be saved to the server. After a new synchronization you will only receive notifications for emails coming from wife@home.com for address me@home.com.

Sync Your Data

The third menu options allows you to resync your options with the server. Data is not sent from your phone to the server at each change you make to allow your application to function faster. Whenever you are sure with your changes and you want to apply them, you have to resync with the server. If you add a new email address you will have to resync data with the server.

Inbox

(available from version 1.2.1 or greater)

From version 1.2.1 you have the possibility to check your last 50 emails that generated notifications. Select the Inbox menu option whenever you want and the app will load from the server the last 50 emails received from all your forwarded accounts.

Only some headers of each email are available, like Subject, From, To and the date when the email was received. The content cannot be displayed because we don’t store it and in fact we drop the content as soon as we extract the headers from every new email.

For now these are all the options available. New features are already in the making. If you have any suggestions please drop an email to instamail at evolve dot ro.