Airmail, the renowned email client, has always been at the forefront of integrating the latest technological advancements, ensuring users enjoy a seamless, productive email experience. With the release of iOS 18, Airmail has once again set the bar high, offering a suite of new features and enhancements that promise to redefine how we manage our digital communication.

iOS 18: A New Era of Interaction

The launch of iOS 18 brings a plethora of features designed to enhance user interaction with their devices. Airmail has been quick to adopt these capabilities, ensuring compatibility and taking full advantage of the new operating system’s offerings. The integration of iOS 18 features allows Airmail to deliver a more intuitive and efficient email management experience.

Apple Intelligence: Smarter Email Management

Although Apple Intelligence is yet to be released, anticipation is high for how it will transform interactions with technology by embedding more advanced AI-driven capabilities. Airmail plans to support Apple Intelligence, aiming to leverage these advancements to provide smarter, context-aware functionalities in email sorting, prioritization, and response suggestions. This will make email management faster and more adaptive to individual user needs.

Enhanced Features in Airmail

Threads Redesign

Recognizing the importance of conversation flow, Airmail introduces a complete redesign of its threading model. This redesign focuses on clarity and ease of navigation within conversations, ensuring that users can follow threads with minimal effort and maximum context.

Support for iOS 18 Apple Intents

Airmail’s integration with iOS 18 extends to the new Apple Intents, which are part of the operating system’s smarter task automation features. Users can now initiate specific actions within Airmail through voice commands or automated triggers, streamlining their workflow and making interaction more dynamic and responsive.

Quick Reply Functionality

In our fast-paced world, efficiency is key. Airmail’s new Quick Reply feature allows users to send brief responses to emails without opening the full composer. This is perfect for on-the-go professionals who need to send prompt replies to keep the conversation moving.

Renewed Email Composer

The revamped email composer in Airmail offers a cleaner, more intuitive interface. Enhancements include better formatting tools and a simplified design that reduces clutter, enabling users to compose emails with ease and increased focus.

Improved Attachment Handling

Airmail’s attachment handling capabilities have also received a significant upgrade. Users can now manage attachments more efficiently, with better preview options and smarter sorting, making it easier to add, remove, and review attachments before sending an email.

Forward-Thinking Compatibility

Airmail’s commitment to staying ahead of technological advancements is evident in its swift adaptation to iOS 18. By embracing the new features and preparing for future integrations like Apple Intelligence, Airmail not only enhances its functionality but also ensures that users remain at the cutting edge of productivity tools.

As we look forward to the exciting developments that iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence will bring, Airmail continues to be a leading choice for anyone seeking a powerful, intuitive email client that keeps pace with the times. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to explore the full potential of these integrations!

Interactive Widgets: A New Dawn in Email Management

In a bid to elevate the user experience to new heights, Airmail has seamlessly incorporated interactive widgets, a standout feature in iOS 17. These widgets are not just visually pleasing but are designed to facilitate a quicker, more efficient management of your inbox. Imagine being able to glance at your important emails, schedules, and to-do lists directly from your home screen, without even opening the app. The interactive widgets bring this convenience to your fingertips.

The integration allows users to customize their widgets, offering a personal touch to their email management system. You can now categorize, prioritize and access your emails in a more organized fashion. From previewing your latest emails to tracking your productivity goals, these widgets serve as your personal assistant, streamlining your daily activities with ease.

Tip Kits: Nudging Towards a Productive Email Experience

Tip kits are another ace in Airmail’s deck, brought to life with iOS 17’s capabilities. These kits function as a user’s guide, offering tips and tricks to fully exploit the potential of Airmail. Whether you are a new user trying to navigate through the initial stages or a veteran looking to enhance your usage, the tip kits come in handy, offering guidance and insights into the app’s extensive feature set.

Moreover, these tip kits are integrated in a non-intrusive manner, providing tips contextually, based on the user’s current operations. This ensures that users get the right tips at the right time, helping to elevate their email management experience. From optimizing your inbox to setting up smart folders, the tip kits cover a broad spectrum, making sure users are well-equipped to make the most of Airmail’s functionalities.

Conclusion: A Harmonious Collaboration

The compatibility of Airmail with iOS 17 signals a harmonious collaboration, with both striving to offer a sophisticated, yet user-friendly interface. The introduction of interactive widgets and tip kits takes the user experience a notch higher, making email management not just convenient, but also enjoyable.

As we venture into this new chapter, it is evident that Airmail continues to be a frontrunner in innovation, aligning perfectly with the advancements brought in by iOS 17. Together, they promise a dynamic, efficient, and engaging email experience, redefining the paradigms of digital communication.

Stay tuned to witness how this synergy unfolds, promising an era of refined, futuristic, and enjoyable email management!

Why AirMail for Business?

AirMail has long been renowned for its sleek design and user-friendly features for individual users. By extending its capabilities to meet the specific needs of businesses, it’s no surprise that AirMail for Business is quickly becoming the go-to choice for corporations, startups, and SMEs alike.

Tailored Features

1. No Subscription: AirMail for Business is a one time purchase and does not require any subscription.
2. Advanced Security: AirMail for Business offers un-comprised security such as MDM configuration to allow companies to configure the app for their employees.
3. Ready for Enterprise: With AirMail for Business, the app will be readily configured with the most optimal privacy and security.

Conclusion

If your company is looking to elevate its email management game, AirMail for Business is undoubtedly worth considering. Join the ranks of businesses making the smart switch and experience the difference firsthand.

Today, we are thrilled to share with you a significant update that many of you have eagerly awaited: AirMail for Mac is now fully compatible with the all-new Sonoma Operating System!

A Quick Overview: What is AirMail for Mac?

For the few who might not know, AirMail is a leading email client app designed to streamline your email experience on Mac. It offers a rich blend of elegance, efficiency, and a plethora of user-friendly features that make it a top choice for email management. Whether you’re an individual managing personal communications or a business executive juggling a cascade of professional emails daily, AirMail for Mac has always aimed to make your life easier.

The Sonoma OS Wave

The recent unveiling of the Sonoma OS left many in awe of its cutting-edge features, enhanced security measures, and its beautiful and intuitive interface. As with any significant OS release, it was crucial for app developers to optimize their apps to ensure a seamless transition for users and maintain performance and compatibility.

AirMail Meets Sonoma

After rigorous testing and meticulous tweaking, we are proud to announce that AirMail for Mac now runs flawlessly on the Sonoma OS. Here’s what this means for you:

• Seamless Transition: If you’re considering updating your Mac to Sonoma OS, you can rest assured knowing that AirMail will continue to perform optimally without any glitches.
• Enhanced Performance: By harnessing the power of the new features in Sonoma, AirMail now loads faster, processes commands more swiftly, and offers an even smoother user experience.
• Integrated Features: With our Sonoma compatibility update, you can expect better system integrations, allowing you to utilize the latest OS features within AirMail. This means more productivity tools and customization options right at your fingertips.
• Up-to-Date Security: One of the standout features of Sonoma is its fortified security. AirMail has incorporated these enhancements, ensuring that your email data remains private, secure, and safeguarded against potential threats.

Get Started Today!

Already on Sonoma? Simply update AirMail for Mac from the App Store, and you’re all set. If you’ve yet to make the transition, know that when you do, AirMail will be right there with you, optimized and ready to go.

To our dedicated users: Thank you for your patience and trust. We’re excited about this new chapter and are committed to continually offering the best email experience on your Mac. To those new to AirMail, we invite you to experience the ultimate email management solution, now better than ever on Sonoma OS.

Happy emailing, and here’s to new horizons!

To summarize: rules in Airmail for Mac allow you to automatically organize your email, even without looking. When Airmail finds new messages, it can automatically apply a label to one message, archive another, create a PDF of another, and automatically trash a whole bunch. Or Airmail can:

• Display a notification based on keywords in the subject
• Bounce the Dock icon based on the sender
• Unsubscribe you from a mailing list based on keywords in the message body
• Save a PDF copy to a folder and archive a message
• Trigger an Airmail Plugin to, say, save senders to a newsletter service
• Run an AppleScript based on any of the above criteria and more
• do much more

To summarize the summary: rules in Airmail for Mac are awesome, and they can save you a lot of time.

Getting started

You can explore rules in Airmail for Mac by going to Window > Rules. If you aren’t familiar with how rules like these work, a core concept to understand is that they have two parts: if and then.

The idea is that if Airmail finds a new message with a particular sender, or a word in the subject, or an attachment with a certain name, then your rule tells it to take action on the message — archive, delete, bounce the dock icon, save a PDF, and more.

Give rules a try in Airmail for Mac and see if they can help your email workflow. One final parting tip is that, to be safe, you can test each rule with the Preview button in the lower right. A window will appear with the potential results of your rule to make sure you actually want its results on an ongoing basis.

Once you’re happy with the rule preview, you can click Apply to Previous Messages in that preview window, then click Save on the rule you created.

Enjoy your newfound email automation bliss. If you haven’t used Airmail yet, you can get it in the Mac App Store and the iPad and iPhone version in the App Store.

Here are a few scenarios: let’s say you frequently forward emails to a coworker and then trash them. Or maybe you frequently respond to certain kinds of emails with a template message. Or maybe you mark web receipts as read, save a copy to a Dropbox folder, then archive.

Custom Actions in Airmail can turn all of these scenarios, and more, into a single tap.

Note: Because Custom Actions work differently on iOS and macOS, this post will focus on Custom Actions for iPad and iPhone. Stay tuned for our Mac post._

Get Started

It’s pretty easy to create a Custom Action in Airmail on iPad or iPhone. We have a few examples below to help get your gears turning, but here are the building blocks:

- In Airmail’s sidebar, go to Settings \> Custom Actions

- On that screen, tap Create

- Tap in the top text box to name your action

- Tap Add Actions

- Scroll through the list, tap an action to add it to your Custom Action

- Rinse, repeat a couple times

- If necessary, use Edit to reorder your actions

- Once you’re done, tap the back arrow to save your Custom Action

Some actions allow for extra input, like addressing to specific people, picking a folder, or adding template text.

Use your Custom Actions

When it’s time to take custom action on an email, you have a couple options. In the message list, you can:

- Swipe to the far left on any message for the Action List

- Scroll down to the bottom and choose your Custom Action

- Watch the magic happen

Or, if you’re viewing a message:

- Tap the (…) menu button in the upper left for the Action List

- Scroll to the bottom and choose your Custom Action

- Watch the magic happen

Example Actions

Here are a few examples of Custom Actions that some on the Airmail team use, or that we’ve heard from customers. Specific action names are **listed in bold** so to make them easy to find for your own Custom Actions:

- Archive and Save — An action that archives an email and saves a PDF copy to iCloud Drive. Actions: Mark as Read+ Move to (then pick a specific account and folder) + Save to iCloud Drive

• Custom Reply — These actions are uniquely powerful in that they allow you to create a full draft template, complete with adding any To, CC, and BCC addresses. You can customize the body text of your reply and automatically send it, or opt to have the chance to customize anything before it’s sent. This can do _wonders_ for responding to things like customer support FAQs, common website visitors questions, and more. Actions: Reply/Reply All/Forward

- Snooze and VIP — Use the Snooze action to hide a message for a specific time period, then Add Sender to VIP to get a notification if the sender emails you again

- Archive and Remind Me — Archive a message with Move to, then Send to Reminder to create a task in Apple Reminders to take action later

We hope those examples get your gears turning on how to manage your email even faster with Airmail and Custom Actions. We also have **one final bonus tip**: You can sync your Custom Actions between iPad and iPhone by going to Airmail’s Settings, then the iCloud Sync panel.

Thanks for using Airmail, and let us know what you think on Twitter [@Airmailer] or on Reddit at [r/Airmailreddit].

How to install the “Read Receipts ” Plugin?

1. Download the read receipt plugin from this link

2. Open up the downloaded plugin and this will result in the following picture where (1.) is the downloaded .zip file and (2.) is the plugin bundle which you can get by double clicking the .zip file.

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3. Then open Airmail and go to Menu Bar. You will find two plugin related options (Plugins and Show Plugins Folder) which will be important in getting the plugin activated. The options are in the following picture.

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4. Choose the option ‘Show Plugins Folder’ and then you will find this window as shown in the picture below and perform the explained process.

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5. Then choose the second option (Plugins) from the same list as shown in point 3 and you will find a window as shown in the picture below. Choose from the window “Reload Plugins” and then enable the “Read Receipts” plugin.

​How to use the “Read Receipts” Plugin?

1. When the plugin is enabled as explained above, you can find the icon for read receipts as shown in the picture below.

2. If you want the read receipts ON, for all messages that you send out as a default option. Please choose Read Receipts ‘Always’ from Airmail Preferences > Accounts > [Account] > Composer > Read Receipts, as shown in the picture below.

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Where do I find the read receipts?

To find the read receipts, please select read receipts to appear in the folder panel from ‘Favorites’ and then you can see them as shown in the picture below.​

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Please note that the “Read Receipts” enabled messages can be seen in the sent folder too, with the eye icon on them.

The read receipt will also notify you as a normal Airmail notification and will appear in the top right corner of your desktop as shown in the picture below.

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What do the different colors of the ‘eye’ icon mean?

Yellow — If you are sending a read receipt activated message to a group and only a few of the recipients have read the message and not all, the eye will be of yellow color.

Blue — If all the recipients have read the message, the eye will be if blue color.

Grey — If none of the recipients have read the message, then the eye will be of grey color.

This menu allows the section of multiple filters.

Enable the Filter Menu:

If the menu is not visible, it can be enabled on by clicking on the View menu and select Show Filters. The keyboard shortcut to enable or disable the menu is ⌃⌥F (control + option + F)

Quick Filter Menu Options:
The illustration above indicate the purpose of the icons. Let’s discuss each option briefly as well as learn the keyboard shortcut.

Show Unread Messages (1):
This option displays Unread Messages only and hides all read messages. The keyboard shortcut is 1.

Show Starred Messages (2)
This only show messages that have been starred or flagged. Keyboard shortcut 2.

Show Messages with Attachments (3)
This only show messages that have attachments. Keyboards shortcut 3.

Show Conversation (4)
Only show Conversations. Conversations are email messages grouped with under the same subject. Keyboard shortcut 4.

Please note that conversation can be enable or disabled under Airmail Preferences under the Appearance tab. Select or deselect Conversations.

Filter by Date
This option allows users to filter messages according to a specific date. Clicking on the icon reveals a calendar. Click on a date to filter messages by and click apply. To chose a date range, hold the shift key and select each date you would like to filter messages by.

There is no keyboard shortcut for this option as a date or date range needs to be selected.

Sort (5,6,7,8,9)
Sorting your messages is easy with this Sort menu. Click on Sort to to view the options.

By default messages are sorted according to date in descending order. Messages can be sorted by any of the options above.

Simply click on the the desired sorting option and choose whether it should be sorted in ascending or descending order.

Once a Sort filter has been selected, the selection will be confirmed by a banner at the bottom of the message.

To disable the filter, click on the X

There are multiple shortcut keys associated with the sort menu:
Shortcut 5: Sorts according to Sender Name in Descending Order

Shortcut 6: Sorts according to Subject in Descending Order

Shortcut 7: Sorts according to Replied in Descending Order

Shortcut 8: Sorts according to Unread Messages in Descending Order

Shortcut 9: Sorts according to Date in Descending Order

Filter Combinations

All the above filters can be used together in any combination. Simply select the filters you want to use or use the shortcut keys. Once a filter is selected, you will see the icon turn to blue.

Originally published at support.airmailapp.com.

There are two sharing extensions:

• Airmail Composer
• Airmail Share

We will discuss them in-depth shortly.

First, it is necessary to enable these extensions

Enable Airmail Share Extensions

1. Click on the Apple  in the menu bar and select System Preferences
2. In the 3rd row, click on the Extensions icon
3. In the left column click on Share Menu
4. Select the Airmail Composer and Airmail Share extension in the extension list.

5. Close Extensions and System Preferences windows

The Airmail Share extensions are now enabled.

Extension Types

Airmail Composer Extension (In App Composer):

The Airmail Composer extension allows sharing of documents and files as attachment by opening a mail composer window without leaving the active application.

As seen in the image below, the document is attached when choosing the Airmail Composer extension.

Continue composing the email as normal and click on send.

Airmail Share Extension:

The Airmail Share Extension, once clicked, opens the standard composer window of Airmail, effectively leaving the active application and going to Airmail app, where messages can be composed as standard.

Using Share Extensions in Finder

The Airmail Extensions are available anywhere on the Mac where you can see see the Share icon or on the right click menu in Finder.

Using the Share Icon Menu

1. Located the Share icon in Finder or any other app that supports it.
2. Click on it to open the Sharing Menu
3. Click to chose which of the Airmail Extension to use.
4. The file that was shared will be added to a new mail composer window as an attached file
5. Compose the email as normal and click send.

Originally published at support.airmailapp.com.

1. Open Airmail App
2. Open Airmail Preferences (⌘,)
3. On the Accounts Tab, click on the + sign and add New Account
4. A windows will appear with a dropdown menu to choose the Service you would like to add.

5. Click on the dropdown menu and choose Exchange
6. Now type in the details of your Office 365 account

7. Choose whether you would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
8. Choose whether you would like to save the account settings to iCloud. This is useful to import your account settings on Airmail’s iOS app or another Airmail App on a different mac.
9. Click on add

You have now successfully added a Office 365 Account.

Originally published at support.airmailapp.com.