Manage Spark 2’s Unified Inbox on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone

0:00 In this video, we’re going to look at unified accounts in Spark mail. We’re going to look at this on the Mac, iPad and iPhone. Now, what are unified accounts? Well, basically with Spark, what we’re able to do is group different mail accounts together into a single inbox. Now, this may not seem like much, but in addition to grouping them together, that also means that we can exclude different mail accounts from our inbox. Why would we want to do this? Well, if you do not want to have one of your accounts included in your inbox that you look at daily, you can exclude it from your inbox. Let’s see what I mean. Let’s first look at this on my Mac. So I’m looking at Spark here. And you’re going to see I have my inbox. This is a unified inbox, which means it’s going to group all of my different email accounts. So I have here three different email accounts. Now by default, what’s going to happen is, when you click on the inbox, you’re going to see all of the mail from all three of these accounts. But let’s say you wanted to exclude one, in my case, what I do is I exclude my school account from it. Why would I want to do that? Well, I only work at the school about 10 hours a week, when I’m looking at my mail every day, I do not want to see my school mail, oh, we want to see my school mail when I’m at the school. If I were to include it in my inbox, I’d be looking at it all the time. And then it might entice me to work for the school when I’m at home. So what I like to do is exclude that out of my inbox here. This is what we can do with unified inboxes. We can exclude these different accounts. So how do we do that? Well, on the Mac, what we do is we go up to our preferences. So I go up to spark here. And then what we do is we go over to our preferences, under our preferences, what we need to do is go over to accounts and under Accounts, we’re going to select the account, I’m going to go to my school account here. When I go to my school account, you’re going to see it says Show this account and unified inbox and it is deselected. So that means that this account is not going to show in my inbox, what I need to do is physically click on school here to see all of the mail. If I go to my other two accounts, let’s go over to my Mac account here, you’re going to see that I have show this account in the inbox. And when I go over to iCloud here, we can see that it is set to show in the inbox. So when I click on inbox here, it’s going to show those two accounts, but it will not show my school account. How do we do this on the iPad and iPhone? Well, we need to go over to our settings. So I’m going to go to the iPad first. And then we go up to our settings. How do we do that, we go up to the three horizontal lines in the upper left hand corner. And then we go over to Settings at the very bottom, we need to go over to our email accounts. And I select the account. And then from here, what we’re able to do is set if we want to show it in the unified inbox. So if I want to show this in my inbox, I just turn the slider on. Again, if I go over to another account, let’s go back, we’re going to click on my iCloud account here. And you’re going to see that it is set to showing the unified account. And the iPhone pretty much works the same way, we need to go to our settings. So we go to the three horizontal lines at the very top left. And then we go to settings down at the very bottom. We go over to our email accounts here. And then when I go to school, you’re going to see I do not have my unified inbox on. So now, when I’m looking at my inbox here, it is only going to show me my mail from those two accounts will not show me my school account, I want to look at my school account, I tap on it, and I go over to school. So that’s what a unified inbox is in Spark and how you can exclude different email accounts from that unified inbox. You may want to do this if you only want to check your mail for one account every once in a while you don’t want to see it in your inbox when you check that on a daily basis. So you want to do is you’ll want to exclude that from your unified inbox. You do this through the preferences on the Mac, through the sparks preferences, as well as spark settings on the iPad and iPhone. So that’s what a unified inboxes and spark and how you can exclude different accounts from it on your Mac, iPad and iPhone