I was noticing delays in retrieving emails, even when my email app on my Android phone was set to grab them every 15 minutes.  Turns out there is a feature in newer versions of Android that will "optimize" your battery by restricting programs' ability to use the data connection in the background.  Basically, despite telling your email app to fetch new messages every X minutes, the device is not allowing it to do just that.

There are 2 settings of interest around this, the Battery Saver mode and the Battery Optimization settings.

Battery Saver is something that the user can activate manually to reduce battery consumption when needed, and also automatically activates when the battery is at a critical level, perhaps 10%, 5%, or another preset level.  Battery Saver, among other things, will turn off the background data of most apps.

Battery Optimization is a separate setting that the device automatically turns on for some (most?) apps.  It applies the same background data restrictions as Battery Saver mode, but is active all the time, regardless of how much battery is available!  To review the list of apps that are being "optimize", and to disable this feature for your email app, click on the Battery Optimization selection in the Battery Saver menu.

MRSware email can be set to automatically check the spelling in a message before sending it.  To enable this option, select the Tools menu and Always Check Spelling before Sending when creating a new email.  The option will remain enabled until unchecked by the User.

​Is your News folder getting a little full, want to clean it up by looking at the most frequent senders?  The Quick Filter function filters the message list to show the message from the top senders.  This is a quick way to filter your Inbox, News or other folders in order to follow-up, read, or delete in bulk the most frequent senders' messages.

​User have the ability to to Star email items on their mobile devices connected to MRSware via IMAP, and those stars will carry over to MRSware Desktop as Flagged items.  Likewise, Flagged messages in MRSware will be shown with a Star on mobile devices.

When a new email arrives:

1. If it is to schedule an appointment, click on the email and drag it to the Calendar icon in the Shortcuts panel or on the Shortcuts button bar.  This will create a new Appointment in the system, with the advantage that the text of the email is already copied into the Notes section of the new appointment, the sender is already linked to it, and the Subject is the subject of the email.
   
   From here the User can easily fill in the day and time, check availability, save the appointment, and even send out an iCal to other attendees.
   
   

​The Signatures features is an interesting thing.  In the basic and most common usage, it automatically inserts text (and pictures) that the User has predefined into an email.  This is the "Signature" usage, inserting contact information as the footer of the email.

Using the mailbox archive wizard periodically can help reduce the clutter in mailboxes, help folders in both MRSware and IMAP clients load faster, as well as free up storage space if you are getting near your included amount.


There are a couple of different archiving options in the wizard:
 
1.  "Archive all folders according to their archive settings."
The default is to archive messages older than 6 months.  You can check these settings by right-clicking on a folder, such as the Inbox, and selecting "Archive Rules".  All messages that are archived with this option are moved (deleted) from the mailbox to the archive file -- i.e. there is no need to then additionally delete anything from the mailbox.
 
2.  "Create archive only, do not delete any messages from the server."
This option follows those same Archive Rules, but does not delete the messages from the mailbox when it is done. After it is done, you would then manually delete anything you didn't want in the mailbox any longer.
 
3.  "Export the entire mailbox to an archive, do not delete any messages from the server."
This option creates a copy of all messages in the mailbox, placing those copies in an archive file.  Use this option to create a complete backup copy of the mailbox, regardless of any Archive Rules that are set on individual folders.

​An easy way to clean-up old e-mail files, and reduce the storage those old e-mails are taking up in the system, is to delete the attachments from them.  MRSware has several functions to delete attachments.  When an attachment is deleted from an e-mail, several things happen: