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What's the best email client?

I'm looking for a client that's as good as the iPhone mail client. I'd like it to support multiple exchange accounts as well as render html based email properly. Also an email client that will render all emails proportionally so I don't have to scroll left and right on an email unless I zoom in. Also supporting pinch to zoom would be great. I've tried K9 but was left unsatisfied on it's implementation... what are the better clients on Android?

I'm in the same conundrum(though not for exchange accounts, mostly IMAP).
Tried k9, which fails quite bad and maildroid, which is just slow. Finalyl just settled on the Samsung Mail app that came with my Galaxy S. I'm sure you can find an APK for it around somewhere if you have a different phone.
It's as close to the iPhone mail prgram as I can find on Android

dgovil said:
I'm in the same conundrum(though not for exchange accounts, mostly IMAP).
Tried k9, which fails quite bad and maildroid, which is just slow. Finalyl just settled on the Samsung Mail app that came with my Galaxy S. I'm sure you can find an APK for it around somewhere if you have a different phone.
It's as close to the iPhone mail prgram as I can find on Android
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I don't understand how any could could be disappointed in K9 Mail, it works flawlessly for me. The GUI is simple yet intuitive and presents the right information at the right time, it ALWAYS works, it's fast, it uses VERY little battery, it supports a great deal of functionality.
The GUI between 2 and 3 got even better adding "Move to Archive" and such type buttons, making common actions easier to do.
One more big plus; Tasker supports it, so you can act on incoming emails, send email, etc via K9.
Only two things it's missing IMO..
Per-folder alerts (I combine all emails (forwarded) into one, and most of them go into specific folders) would be nice, but I've done this in Tasker now so no biggie here.
Second, if you move mail to a folder you don't sync, it stays local and doesn't clean up. IE: If you move Trash mail to the server Trash folder, it moves on the server and on the mail client. However it never gets purged in K9 after X days or after the server deletes it if you don't sync that folder. So what I've done is I sync a few such folders once a day.
FYI, I use Dovecot for my IMAP server, one mailbox IDLE, 4-5 sync once a day. I use Tasker to turn off Syncing at night and have K9 set to not sync when it's disabled so at night K9 doesn't receive mails, turns back on in the morning for me. And when I get certain emails in (based on subject, sender, etc) Tasker alerts me in special ways.
I don't really use the encryption/signing functionality, but it also works quite well paired with APG.
I just don't see why anyone wouldn't like it if they use IMAP. I assume POP would be a similar experience. Exchange can DIAF.

I swear by K9 Mail. Best email app I've ever used. Bonus for being open-source and updated frequently too.

If you are not satisfied with the market release version of K-9 you can always DL a newer version from the development web site.
You can view changes by clicking on the source tab and then the changes sub-tab.

I used K9 as my default email client on the Mytouch 3G. It is a really good, strong, and full of features application. I highly recommend it. Right now I'm using the default that came with the Mytouch 4G because it fits my needs.

Theres always Touchdown and this another one that I can't recall name of if you want to go paid route , K9 does everything and more for me so i've no complaints, The iphone mail app is PATHETIC! look for samsung mail (social mail app) if you want but so far the best is K9 and touchdown for exchange

The stock mail app on my Captivate can't access Yahoo!mail on WIFI and when I tried K9, it slowed my phone down to a crawl. Everything lagged so badly I had to uninstall after less than an hour. And yeah, lag disappeared right after I uninstalled K9.
SO yeah, I, too, am looking for a good mail app.

Try Seven.....it's been working great for me.
seven.com

A non-working link (you forgot the www) is a bad way to promote an app

naenee said:
A non-working link (you forgot the www) is a bad way to promote an app
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yeah, so, seven.com works by itself, and any website that REQUIRES www. is super lame anyway.

naenee said:
A non-working link (you forgot the www) is a bad way to promote an app
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He wasn't promoting an app. He was trying to help by suggesting a program he likes.
If you are to lazy to cut and paste or type it in, then just hi on using the email program you use now.

try seven... it's the default mail client that comes on all of the galaxy phones.

lexluthor said:
He wasn't promoting an app. He was trying to help by suggesting a program he likes.
If you are to lazy to cut and paste or type it in, then just hi on using the email program you use now.
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Thanks dude...I figured smart people could figure out that I left the "WWW" out being I can't post links yet.
Again Seven works great for me. Try it.....

K-9 for sure.

K9 works good but not with Exchange 2010

Or there's always my app! Link is in my sig. I'm constantly working on it so new stuff is being added all the time.

For me without doubt Maildroid
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.maildroid&feature=search_result

Does seven work with any phone

I use Kaiten Mail. Its made by the same developers as K9 I believe but its more intuitive
Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 3g

[Q] Android in Corporate Environment

I was able to get a Droid Incredible out of my place of work to use for business. I am an IT guy and am looking for some specific things.
1st Exchange support. I have flashed my incredible to cm6 to get rid of sense because I like vanilla android better. This however brings the problem of losing my GAL support through the Sense email/people apps. Is there any app out there that will get this back? I have found Touchdown, and its ok, but I really dislike the fact that I have to input a pin after 5 minutes of not being in e-mail, and it doesnt really integrate itself into android. I was able to find hacked mail apks for both stock android and the email sense app. But with the stock mail app I still lose out on the GAL. And the sense email app is... ugly. Also is it possible to setup a shared mailbox like I can do in outlook? I have an iPhone 4 as my personal phone and its just much better as far as exchange support goes. Any suggestions here would be great.
Second is setting up VPN to work with cisco ipsec protocol. I cant seem to find out how to set this up, though I have read it requires rooting, which I have done.
Thanks for your input.

[Q] Please give me a decent mail app

Okay, so far I've tried just about every mail app I know. I wonder if I've missed any...
In-built app:
- Basic functionality
Moxier:
- Doesn't send any emails! (useless error msg and no help from web)
- No decent widgets
- Clunky interface
RoadSync/Touchdown:
- Horrible interface
- Cannot select multiple recipients!
Surely there must be a client out there like the HTC Desire client that actually works well and gives proper functionality.
Or am I missing something??
Ferg.

code.google.com/p/k9mail/ has always worked for me with MSN, AOL and Yahoo.

Seven is the best one I have tried so far...
http://community.seven.com/main.php

Touchdown allows multiple recipients.
The interface is clunky though, especially in dual-pane mode. Still, I always end up going back to Touchdown for my corp email. It just works.

I am using K-9 mail and its running like charm.
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App

fergusstrachan said:
Surely there must be a client out there like the HTC Desire client that actually works well and gives proper functionality.
Or am I missing something??
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Please define "proper functionality".

Ah, I guess by proper functionality I mean:
- Easy to access buttons for manipulating emails
- Can sync more than 1 month worth of email
- Can set periods for syncing (Push during the day, off at night)
- Doesn't show email text incredibly small (seemingly at random) and then not word-wrap properly
- Actually moves/deletes objects when you ask it to, not when it manages to contact the Exchange server again
etc.
There are a lot of shortcomings with the in-built app, I think.
I forgot to mention I'm using Activesync, not Gmail/Hotmail or POP3 etc.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone; I'll check them out.
Ferg.

ZoinksS2k said:
Touchdown allows multiple recipients.
The interface is clunky though, especially in dual-pane mode. Still, I always end up going back to Touchdown for my corp email. It just works.
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Yeah, the interface is very clunky, and annoying that when you first start it it wastes most of the screen with the preview pane (which I don't think you can switch off permanently).
Multiple recipient - if I remember correctly, you can't multi-select from the address book. Am I mistaken?

If you can use IMAP with your Exchange server (and I doubt that'd be an issue at most companies), K-9 mail probably fits most of what you're looking for. I use it with Push for my Exchange account, and it's pretty much instant and doesn't waste battery polling for mail. You can enable larger buttons for multi-select and starring mail, and I find it to be pretty decent. Now I wish it would do the landscape view that the Samsung app does, but otherwise, I love it.

Is there any way to copy and paste in the standard email app?

BuglessFan said:
If you can use IMAP with your Exchange server (and I doubt that'd be an issue at most companies), K-9 mail probably fits most of what you're looking for. I use it with Push for my Exchange account, and it's pretty much instant and doesn't waste battery polling for mail.
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TBH, it's unlikely IMAP will use less battery than ActiveSync. AS sends only a small amount of data every 15mins or so to keep the session open; IMAP's the one that needs to poll constantly. Unless it's IMAP Idle, which Exch doesn't do.
Not sure I can/would want to use IMAP on my hosted Exchange account but I guess it's an option. Just a bit married to AS, what with it being my job. ;-)

Geletis said:
Is there any way to copy and paste in the standard email app?
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If you long-press in the body, it gives you a kind of select thing, but it's hit and miss. Sometimes seems to select a whole line, in which case you touch it again and it copies it; sometimes gives you the nice select tool that you can expand etc but no way I can see of copying the text!

i use k9 and i like it. except strangely on the tab when i reply to all, i also get the reply (which annoys me a bit). yet on my N1 k9 doesn't behave this way.

The IMAP is done through PUSH, not PULL, so it's not sending anything until the server tells it it has something for it (well, technically I think it's set to every 60 minutes send a small ping to keep things alive, but only if it hasn't gotten any messages for 60 minutes). AS is great when it's set up. I actually run my own Exchange server at home (actually 2000 still running on an old dual P3 box that keeps chugging away), and it's a lot easier in a small environment to configure/maintain IMAP over AS there. I love AS when IT has to maintain it for me though, and when I have a device. Maybe I'll have a big ARM tablet running Windows Next using AS

dahuzi said:
I am using K-9 mail and its running like charm.
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+1. I've always liked the K9 client.

Cool to see I am not the only one complaining...
I come from a TP2 and a great Exchange 2010 setup. The terrible email client of the Tab makes me regret my efficient TP with pocket outlook from WM6.5
Honestly pOutlook is an incredibly good email client. I never realized until I got my tab...
Then we need a serious calendar app and a serious contact app
Disappointing software on Android so far... (It's my first Android device)

Aye, I think all of the Android mail apps are comparatively poor except the Desire one.
But I don't regret swapping WM for Android in a million years. Battery life, rebooted to keepit going,buggy **** software...
Bugless - okay, so I guess it's IMAP idle you're using. I don't have that option, although standard IMAP would work it's not ideal.
Poo. Just have to put IP with the native client or Touchdown.

ZoinksS2k said:
Touchdown allows multiple recipients.
The interface is clunky though, especially in dual-pane mode. Still, I always end up going back to Touchdown for my corp email. It just works.
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Zoinks, I can ENTER multiple recipients, but cannot SELECT multiple recipients from any address book.
Am I missing something, or is this the case? If that's the way it's meant, that makes it useless. :-(

Try "Seven". Only available as a beta at the moment I think, but you can get it from:
http://www.seven.com/howtoget.html
Seems like a good app. Will sync contacts & calendar to the local device too, also works as an IM app for GTalk and MSN.

knightnz said:
Try "Seven". Only available as a beta at the moment I think, but you can get it from:
http://www.seven.com/howtoget.html
Seems like a good app. Will sync contacts & calendar to the local device too, also works as an IM app for GTalk and MSN.
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May be, but it says it only works through OWA..! Seems a weird way to access Exchange in this day and age. Must have been to stingey to pay for the ActiveSync licence.

Exchange Email Apps

Please post your favorite Exchange Email App, I've tried K9 and it crashes at least once an hour. The default client on my Samsung Infuse is a battery hog.
Thanks all

Touchdown is the best by far.

I really like mail droid

I currently use Enhanced Email, it's been the most stable for me so far, and has some nice options.
Things I don't like about it though:
- Not a very 'pretty' UI for tablets, phone version could use a little UI love as well
- No email threading ... seriously, this is my #1 complaint of all email apps I've tried, I can't find one that works for exchange and supports mail threading by conversation. I mean seriously, am I missing something here???
- Enhanced Email allows you to change the polling time from "Push" up to hours before checking, really nice for during the work day when I'm at my computer anyways, and set to push on weekends if needed.
So basically I'd like an app with Email threading, ability to change sync scheduling, and a nice looking tablet UI( as well as phone UI so I don't have to pay for 2 apps ).
I'd pay a pretty penny for an app with all the above( and maybe some extras like searching for words in subject and text of ALL emails, a built in calendar addition would be really nice, but not necessarily needed, a kickass, customizable email widget would be killer( needs to be very customizable as in background color/transperency, font size / color, boxes to check, etc... but again widget isn't a 'must have' )
Anyways, it seems that all the clients out there lack 'something' that has been done in others( other than threading, can't find a single one that does this ). If someone could take K-9 and modify it to do all the above, they could make some cash off it I'm sure!

Touchdown has nice features but a strange ui

Touchdown is not without serious issues. Hate the corrupt database issues. Additionally that if you have one instance of failed policy compliance it wipes the settings as well as the License Key. Also hate the fact that secondary authentication is required. Not a fan of multiple passwords on my device.
I do like the local encryption though.

Hmmm... So its sounding like I didn't miss anything, there really just isn't much out there That's a pitty for real

RubenRybnik said:
Hmmm... So its sounding like I didn't miss anything, there really just isn't much out there That's a pitty for real
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Spoiled by Google Mail app.

TheBrandonWRX said:
Spoiled by Google Mail app.
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Spoiled by Gmail, Thunderbird, Outlook, lol ... What a basic feature to not find it anywhere

Better Exchange Email Client

We have a MS Exchange 2010 Server and I am trying to find a better client. The Samsung one has three flaws for me.
1. White background prefer black.
2. The Folders when you select move to file an email are not in order.
3. It seems to provoke some lag on the Note.
We use Enhanced Email on our Android phones and love it though the developer has been horribly slow to address issues. Touchdown is just terrible and has reliability issues. We have seen numerous times emails created offline will not be sent once the device comes online. We want something with the Tablet View Samsung's App offers.
Any help would be great.

The one that I use is Nitrodesk Touchdown. I've been using it since before Google/Samsung added exchange connection and it works great. I believe it costs a bit more than it did 4 years ago but it has a great sync for email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. They have decent widgets - not the best.

Gramon said:
The one that I use is Nitrodesk Touchdown. I've been using it since before Google/Samsung added exchange connection and it works great. I believe it costs a bit more than it did 4 years ago but it has a great sync for email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. They have decent widgets - not the best.
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Unfortunately, our internal tests have shown that Touchdown has issues sending if you have created a message offline (loss of internet connectivity) and messages being sent once the connection is restored. They indicate they are aware of this issue and it has been one for quite a while with no eta on resolution. They indicate the problem is hit or miss. In the world of Executives if they send a message it better go... Thanks for the suggestion though.