Boxer - Workspace ONE Reviews

by 123492game

Having this app on my iPhone has not been entirely pleasant.

I have to use it as per company guidelines and that’s fine...I just wish I could ask least synch my this app calendar with my iOS calendar and have my day in one place. As it is, it’s partitioned out and rather annoying to go back and forth to keep track of all my events, contacts, emails, voicemail, EVERYTHING. Also, I heavily rely on my desktop task list, which is NOWHERE to be found in Boxer . My recommendation is to hope my company will make the switch to using Microsoft 365 using their apps/ functionalities. Also, good luck trying to contact anyone to get this addressed. I see troubleshooting forum entries with the same issues I have from all the way back to 2015 AND THEY STILL HAVE NOT FIXED OR UPDATED Boxer.

If you are a leader looking to choose for your company, your employees will dislike Boxer for sure. Please use something else and save your money, IT budget, and your’s employee’s stress.

by Brb5435

I would have given Boxer high marks. But since switching jobs I have become very frustrated with Boxer . Both my previous and current employer use this app for secure email. Unfortunately when I left my first employer I simply removed the application from my iPhone. A few weeks later, after I learned this app was the secure app of choice, I installed Boxer for my new job. However upon launching Boxer , it prompts for the password for my previous employer! I can’t get passed this! I’m currently working with my previous employer to see if they can reinstate my account! The only other option is to wipe my phone and start fresh!

by KyleSudds

We had to switch Email apps for work from Good App to this app so didn’t have a choice. Not getting any notifications or badges letting me know that I have an email. Have to open Boxer and wait for it to update to see my emails and shouldn’t have to do that. Also you can chose a sound notification in the this app app but it would give you a sound that you didn’t choose and wasn’t even in the list to choose from. Now after your last two updates, no sound at all. Defeats the purpose of having email on your phone if you have to open app to even see if you any emails. What I don’t understand is that when reading the reviews, I see that this has been a common issue with the this app app and you have done nothing to fix it. This has been an ongoing for years if you go by the reviews. What that tells me is that you are not listening and don’t care.

by Madjanet

I loaded Boxer for my hotmail as my old app became obsolete! The this app app is appalling and takes so long to download my messages. Most times it can take 10/15 mins to download but most times it just doesn’t download. All my apps are up to date but Boxer is slow! Slow! Slow! Non existent! So if u have lots of time and patience here buy Boxer !

Since the update I’ve been unable to get into the this app app. I deleted it and reloaded it on my iPhone and it does not want to work. Keeps asking for a password and when I put it in tells me that someone else has same hotmail address. Help!

by Bcgehrmann

I downloaded this for one sole reason. My sent emails don't sit in my Outbox folder. The Outlook app has a glitch that when I THINK I've sent something the message will just sit in the Outbox folder. But this app does the same thing. I logged into my account on a desktop computer Outlook. Mock and I had 417 emails in my Drafts folder. Each email had 4 duplicate copies. I ask this app to fix that issue of not being able to send so it sits in an Outbox so to speak and it continues to try over n over n over again. Then my drafts folder gets full. Also would like to go into app settings and change how many emails Boxer downloads. We should be able to select to download: the most 100 recent emails, or most recent 200 or 1000 or unlimited. I have 5000 emails with my business and it bogs down Boxer . I want there to be an option to restrict how many emails are downloaded. And for those that don’t want restricted will have the option to choose unlimited! Thanks.

by KermitTGator

This this app application generally works fine, but lacks an important option to make it great. The inability to set default view option for the calendar to a list view over day is big for an application designed for smaller screens like phones. The view should not be limited to a potion of today instead of being able to see the next several meetings regardless of day requiring additional interactions seems lacking in foresight. It seems like a simple change but apparently has not been considered valuable as it has been suggested for > 2 years now but has not been added.

by Eremuck

I use this app on an iPad Pro for access to company email. I’m grateful for the capability, as the iPad is much more usable than my fully-integrated iPhone.
However, I am becoming steadily more frustrated by this app’s email threading display. When you select an email on the left it gets highlighted (grayed) as it should be. But if you scroll through the email by swiping on the right side of the screen, the highlight on the left disappears! That’s a big problem for long email threads. It leaves me not knowing quite where I am in the inbox.

by Xeroid84

I use this app on my personal and business phones. One is on a Samsung S7 and the other is an iPhone 7. They behave differently, the Samsung version does not show badges for the number of unread messages. The iPhone version does but doesn't always convert read messages to unread messages reliably. I fully recommend Boxer. Hopefully the developers will fix these issues- that I am sure of.

After my first review I hoped Boxer would have improved. On the iOS, Boxer still doesn't show that an email has been read all the time. Now I'm unable to reply all to some emails. I get a message at the bottom of my phone that states, "Recipient is downloading, please try again later." This is very frustrating. The Samsung app still does not show the number of unread emails pending.
I recommend Boxer and I hope the developers will fix these issues.

by Br4ntl3y

Required to use Boxer by my employer if I want email on my phone. It’s helpful and useful to have but would be even better if I was able to get consistent notifications of new emails. I get maybe 2 of every 10 email notifications and that’s if Boxer is running in the background. I’ve tried every suggestion my IT dept has given and still no luck. I have to open Boxer every 15 mins to see if I have a new email and it’s been a year now of this. I’m not the only one either. All my coworkers have the same problem and we just deal with it since IT won’t contact the developers for a fix. So if you guys could fix Boxer so I get all my notifications, that’d be great. Thanks

by Hbbbbbbbbb5

Works well generally but small quirks make composing emails on Boxer a pain. For one, the autocorrect isn’t even close to as smart as Apple’s, to the point it’s helpful at max 40% of the time. Secondly, when it does get it right, the autocorrect execution removes the leading space before the word so you get a word likethis and it doesn’t then underline it as a potential misspelling. Thirdly, placing the cursor is a pain. It seems to again be tied to autocorrect, or maybe that’s just when I most frequently am trying to drop the cursor in a specific spot but it doesn’t work. Closest I can get is one of the surrounding words to where I’m trying to go. Lastly, the calendar sync with the desktop doesn’t recognize deleted meetings, still sends me a reminder to go.

by LordGONZO77

With the amount of emails that I get at work this app notifications are going off every few minutes when an email comes in. I know that there is a setting for VIP notifications, but it would also be great to have a separate notification option for calendar events. Currently when you turn off email notifications the calendar notifications turn off as well. I have missed a few meetings due to this. My request is to have a separate notification for calendar events. I’d like to be able to turn off the email notifications and keep calendar and VIP notifications on. Looking for to this functionality. 5 stars if this shows up.

by Redskyorca

I dropped spark for this app and basically noticed very few problems though some functionality is not yet available.

I can’t see any option for adding this app to the list of options for sharing, of the several browsers om my devices only Chrome shows up as an alternative to Safari as a browser of choice (no idea if this is firefox’s problem).

The unread folder is fantastic and i’ve not seen this in other clients no matter the platform. Especially since certain emails seem tobrise from the read to become unread again.

None of these are that serious.

This is though:
On my iPhone Boxer sometimes ends up showing only a white screen. No controls and no way out. If an email notice comes in I can access and read it and still swipe left/right. No way to do anything else.

Maybe I’m the problem yey it matters not for the combination does not work and I will uninstall until later and check back to see how things stand.

I do like Boxer and want it to grow but have to remove else strangle my coworkers in frustration.

by FigNewton31415

this app is a solid alternative to Outlook, especially for customers that are in the AirWatch Ecosystem. Unfortunately, there are a few UI quicks that make using this app a bit frustrating. One specific example is when using the action buttons with emails (I.e. archive/delete/etc.), the status pop up on the bottom of the screen blocks access to the action buttons thus forcing you to have to wait until the pop up disappears before performing the next action.

Also - it would be great to be able to define a different signature for replies.

Overall though, this app is a well done app that is very comparable to Outlook on iOS.

by Vashon Island

I've tried this on my iPad Pro and my iPhone, both IOS 11.3.1. I've installed and reinstalled Boxer several times on my iPhone and my iPad but no matter what setting, push and notifications aren't working. It only does push updating and notifications when you open it, or leave it open. It does not do background push updating or notifications. The MS Outlook app does push notifications perfectly. For what it's worth, my first choice was the 9Folders email client, but it has the same push updating and notifications issues.

by Tcwillard

I really like this app and think it has potential. My suggestions for future updates would be for events to be able to be set to minute increments versus 5 minute increments and if past events could be “grayed out” in list view. Is that possible? I think others would appreciate it as an option and I’d seriously consider switching to this app permanently, if these suggestions were added. Thanks

by Ainge1983

V5 is a big improvement on iOS, and I actually enjoy using Boxer now. The biggest annoyance to me is the need for more granular control of notifications. I get far too many work emails to wish to be notified every two minutes when an email is received. But I DO wish to be notified of emails from VIPs, such as my boss. this app needs to allow users to create a VIP contacts list with further notification control for all emails vs just VIP emails. A notification coining in constantly is like getting no notification at all.

by Benineone

I like this app and it has simplified managing my calendars and my e-mails. There are two issues/requests. I upgraded recently and now I can only sync my e-mail for up to 1 month. There are many times I need to find things that are older than that. The other request is that when you do a search, you get everything in every folder with the search term. It doesn’t tell you which folder it is in (could be in trash). It would be nice to be able to search a specific folder.

by Scwysong

this app’s layout is very easy to navigate. Sending emails is quick and easy. The thing that gets me are the notifications. If you 3D Touch to see a pop-up of a rest email and press Mark as Read Boxer automatically opens up. This is one of my favorite features in email apps, mostly because by marking an email as Read from the notification, I don’t have to launch Boxer . Also, it would be awesome to have a delete option from the notification banner too. Overall, I think most of us email app enthusiasts will like this app.

by D Benjamin

It’s different from previous mobilIron platform. Not user friendly, the reply button is hidden. The sent items need to be configured. The not read items option need to be upfront and accessible within a click of a button upfront. Also that the this app icon does not display number of e mails received for a quick glance.

Overall is not user friendly. Delete button should appear for each individual message being deleted and not appear once with undo so when deleting more than one message user can easily recover the selected one or two e mails they deleted accidentally.

by Zen The Ducky

I have a lot of email accounts (smbo with 5 businesses and wear many hats). So I use outlook, apple mail, edison, gmail, yahoo. I added this app for my purchasing email account and I have to say - this is miles ahead of any of my email apps. It was so easy to set up, didnt have to use manual set up, it was blazing fast to sync my email first time and most of all - it doesn’t create a mess by creating those sill threads that end up making it difficult to respond to a particular email or make it easy to delete important emails by deleting entire threads. I really hate threads. Anyway 10/10 rating which is the first time I’ve ever rated an email app this high and actually the only time I’ve been pleased enough to actually write a review of an email app.

by LITTLEBIRD912

I downloaded this for one sole reason. My sent emails don't sit in my Outbox folder. The Outlook app has a glitch that when I THINK I've sent something the message will just sit in the Outbox folder. But this app does the same thing. I logged into my account on a desktop computer Outlook. Mock and I had 417 emails in my Drafts folder. Each email had 4 duplicate copies. I ask this app to fix that issue of not being able to send so it sits in an Outbox so to speak and it continues to try over n over n over again. Then my drafts folder gets full. Also would like to go into app settings and change how many emails Boxer downloads. We should be able to select to download: the most 100 recent emails, or most recent 200 or 1000 or unlimited. I have 5000 emails with my business and it bogs down Boxer . I want there to be an option to restrict how many emails are downloaded. And for those that don’t want restricted will have the option to choose unlimited! Thanks.

by JDMshit88

Recently my mail that I read still shows unread in my inbox. I check them off as read and they come back unread. I’m right at this minute having the issue with two emails that will not show read. They stay unread and it’s really annoying. Hopefully this app can fix this glitch.
I would’ve given Boxer a 5 star but due to my issue I gave it a 4 instead.