OneMail

OCENS, Inc

About this app

OneMail allows you to keep tabs on your regular email account when you are using limited bandwidth connections such a a satellite phone or slower 2g cellular networks that would normally make this impossible.

OneMail takes a very unconventional approach to checking your email account through slow or expensive connections. When you use OneMail to check your email, it auto-dials through your satellite link and then downloads the From, Subject and Size of the mails waiting for you in just seconds. It then auto-disconnects from your satphone so you aren’t burning unnecessary airtime while you review this summary information. Now that you are offline, scan down the OneMail list of waiting mail to see if any are of pressing or particular interest, swipe or tap on those messages to highlight them, then re-connect with OneMail. This time OneMail will access and quickly download those message before then once again auto-disconnecting. At your leisure you can now freely review the complete message and reply to those emails before reconnecting to send replies and/or look for new mail.

OneMail is completely private. Mail transfers are compressed and encrypted.

OneMail is compatible with the Iridium GO!, Iridium GO! exec, Iridium Certus and handhelds, Inmarsat and Globalstar handheld satellite phones, Globalstar SatFi, and the Sidekick family of satellite Wi-Fi routers.

Ratings and reviews

OneMail has made it possible for me to stay connected while sailing across oceans. It's the only satellite email service that allows direct access to "your" email accounts (such as Gmail, etc). It's made life a whole lot easier for us on board as it allows us to access our work emails without interruption - so it enables us to work remotely! Highly recommended!

Works well, but has some annoying bus/omissions. Replies to emails are sent by default from an arbitrary account -- not always the one on which the mail was received. Cut and paste functions do not work. Back button does not work. Cannot exit app, must terminate it instead.

If you're looking for a free alternative to the norm go for this one.

What's new

- Added ability to save attachments to Downloads
- Fixed bugs with Iridium GO exec connections
- Other bug fixes