You may have woken up this morning to a shiny new mBox Mail update. Excited you installed it skipping past the boring release notes.

As the application launches you get your finger ready to tap OK on “mBox Mail would like to send you Push Notifications”.

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But that popup never came. Infact you soon realized nothing had really changed about this new mBox Mail release. That is, assuming you were one of the lucky ones that wasn’t at all affected by various compatibility bugs with iPhone OS 3.0. For the rest of us, we may now resume opening email attachments, secure our inbox with a pin code, finally be able to take advantage of copy and paste among other important behind the scenes changes.

So, where are the push notifications?

Fact is, we’re still working on it. We don’t take the responsibility of checking mail behind the scenes for our entire customer base lightly. A whole infrastructure needs to be put in place to offer such services. Considering mBox Mail is a mail client, we have no servers that we can simply re-appropriate for the job.

The official announcement is that mBox Mail 3.0 (next major feature release) will ship with the highly anticipated Push notifications support.

When? As soon as possible.

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