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We've already heard from multiple sources that Apple's vice president of design, Jony Ive, has been working on making iOS flatter and more refined, but now he's also rumored to be working on brand new Mail and Calendar apps as well. It's not clear right now whether a complete revamp of such core personal information management software would be ready in time for iOS 7 this year, or for iOS 8 next year, but the focus sounds interesting. According to Bloomberg:

Mail Pilot has just received an update which adds the much requested support for Exchange accounts that are IMAP enabled. Other features in the update include an improved add account system, bug fixes, enhancements, and more. Mail Pilot was also nice enough to give us some codes to give out to our readers...

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If you are familiar with Gmail, you're probably already familiar with archiving mail opposed to fully deleting it. You also have this option for iCloud mail as well. If you prefer archiving certain items for access later while deleting things you won't ever need again, follow along and we'll show you how.

Popular email app Mailbox has annonced that they have gotten rid of their reservation system. In a post on the company blog, the team says that they are now delivering over 100 million messages per day:

Triage: Email First Aid is an email client for iPhone by Southgate Labs that makes it easy to to quickly sort through your inbox and remove the noise. Triage is not intended to be a complete client, but rather a simple one with the sole purpose of helping you to quickly curate your inbox in your downtime.

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Mailbox for iPhone just received an update that adds smarter snooze controls, faster swiping, and general UI improvements throughout Mailbox that should make the interface more fluid.

There are lots of alternative mail clients available in the App Store and Mail Pilot for iPhone and iPad is the newest addition. While the workflow concepts are simliar to that of apps like Mailbox, the overall interface and design is rather different. Not to mention, Mail Pilot supports an array of clients including both Gmail and iCloud.

I backed Mail Pilot in its infancy stages last summer when it started out as a Kickstarter project. It was a great idea and I'm excited to finally give it the review treatment and find out whether or not it really was worth the wait.

If you send a lot of emails on your iPhone or iPad that go to different people, you may want to blind copy some users, or all of them for that matter, so they don't see each other's email addresses. Regardless of the reason, if you forget there isn't a need to delete the email and re-enter it in the appropriate field. iOS actually gives you the ability to move them pretty seamlessly.

Here's how.

Incredimail is a visual email client for iPad that displays your email as a collage of snippets of text and photos from your messages. With Incredimail, you can see more of your emails at first glance and easily flip through your messages.

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If you send lots of emails from your iPhone or iPad, you probably are very familiar with the native Mail app. There may be times when you start an email but don't have time to finish it. As we already know, hitting cancel allows you to save a draft for later. If you've got a lot of inboxes, figuring out which email the draft was coming from and finding it again can be irritating. No one likes to weed through all their draft folders to find one single email.

As it just so happens, the default Mail app gives you a super easy way to access all your email drafts in one place, regardless what account you started them from. Here's how...