iPhone version of the website

We're pretty close to getting to having this ready to beta test.

I'm excited to announce that the iPhone website is ready for initial testing! This version allows you to view Messages in any Mailbox or Folder and Delete or Save individual Messages.

http://iphone.otherinbox.com/
(we recommend you bookmark this for your iPhone and then add it as a button in your iPhone menu)

This is still very early on. I'm listing it here because its better than nothing and because we want early feedback, but we do realize that there is still a lot of work to be done.

Note that this is an iPhone website, not an iPhone application. We are working on an iPhone application separately, which should be faster and more responsive.

Known Bugs

• Remember Me not functioning on some phones. It's really annoying to have to enter your username and password every time you go to the site. Thanks for your patience!
  
• Message bodies are sometimes too large for the screen. I'll save you the technical explanation, but this seems to be a Dashcode limitation we're trying to work around.

Missing Features

• Block
  
• Delete All
  
• Save All
  
• Move Message
  
• Forward
  
• Reply
  
• New Message
  
• New Mailbox

You can bookmark the OtherInbox web application on the home screen of your iPhone or iPod Touch. Please note, you must have the version 1.1.3 (or later) firmware to do this.

1. Open the Safari browser and type in the address bar: iphone.otherinbox.com
2. Touch the "plus sign" icon at the bottom of the page
3. Touch the "Add to Home Screen" button
4. Edit the name if you wish
5. Touch the "Add" button at the top right

We have rolled out some new features for the iPhone OtherInbox website. I wanted to list a few for you to look for.

Some messages are still too large for the screen. We've added a link on the message to open it in a new window to view the whole message, and you can pinch-zoom and everything!

If there is only one message in a mailbox, the transition now goes directly to the message. No stopping to see the list of messages first.

When all messages in a mailbox have been saved/deleted, the mailbox disappears from the list.

And, my personal favorite, the "Sign Out" button is no longer blinding red.

Please note, if you are running firmware version 2.1 or later, and you open OtherInbox with a home screen icon that was set up before 11/17/2008, there may be some features that don't work for you (most notably, the "Open message in new window" link). If this is affecting you, please delete your home screen icon and create it again.

Due to some major infrastructure changes we made last week to improve the way messages are stored and accessed, unfortunately the iPhone web application has been affected. Messages are not showing up but can still be accessed by clicking (touching?) the "Open message in new window" link.

We're working to correct this and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.