I'm trying to get my email running and I'm having problems with both of the above mentioned email apps. Any help is appreciated.
I'd like to use the stock email since it's a little more polished and simpler and does everything I need. But every time I sync email with my IMAP accounts it resets all the "read" email to "unread". My exchange account for work works great with the default app.
With K9 I can get the IMAP accounts working normally but it won't pull down any Exchange email after the initial sync. I've been all over the forums and can't get it running, which seems pretty common.
Has anyone experienced the default email app behaving as I described and been able to fix it? Any advice on setting up exchange i K9?
Thanks for any help!
Mike
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I tried the MyTouch 3G last year and found that it's email sync with Hotmail was poor. If you deleted/read something from the device, it would not delete it/mark it read on the server. I tried the K-9 program, but it was pretty lame as it did not fix the above issues.
Has this been fixed? I really enjoyed all other aspects of Android, but this issue is a necessity for a phone for me.
Also, the native MS exchange server support only covered email. Have they added contacts and calendar syncing? When I had the MyTouch 3G, I bought the program "Touchdown" and that worked slick.
I am just curious to see if the Android people had advanced into the core MS functionality yet.
Thanks for any input.
POP is notoriously hard to keep in sync among multiple clients. There's usually a 'mark as read on download' setting that works ok if you only have one POP client downloading mail. When I last checked Hotmail didn't have that ability but maybe they've done some improvements. If they have an IMAP or ActiveSync option that would be the ideal solution.
In my case I don't use my Hotmail as my primary account but I still have email that goes to it. I use Gmail's ability to sync with external POP accounts to download and label my Hotmail email. This way I get my Hotmail email pushed to me like my Gmail email and I don't have to use separate email clients to read them. I also prefer Gmail's web interface and spam filter so I don't even bother going to Hotmail's site any more. The problem with this approach is that Android's Gmail app doesn't allow you to change the 'from' field so if you reply to a Hotmail email it will be from your Gmail address. This isn't an issue for me since I essentially use my Hotmail as a read-only account. If you have a similar use case then this method would probably work well for you.
Thanks for the input. It sounds like things are about the same as what I was experiencing.
I have over 400 emails and my phone only showing me 100 of them. Amyone else having this issue?
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I guess no one is having this problem?
I am suprised no one else having this problem, I guess I have a defective one.
I noticed this just a day ago. The POP emails seem to age off after 1 week or if they get deleted on the server.
My assumption is the email client on the phone is doing this; it should not, but there is no other reason for it. The only relevant email setting i can find is if the client should delete on the server.
I was starting to like Touchwiz, but Samsung really messed up the email client. I hope custom Roms give us a better email client.
I also have a problem with POP3 fetch. I have 1 Exchange, Gmail, and 3 POP3 accounts. Exchange works as it should, but the POP3 accounts seem to stop fetching overnight. Even manually refreshing doesn't work. I may have rebooted before or just waited... not sure.
alphadog00 said:
I also have a problem with POP3 fetch. I have 1 Exchange, Gmail, and 3 POP3 accounts. Exchange works as it should, but the POP3 accounts seem to stop fetching overnight. Even manually refreshing doesn't work. I may have rebooted before or just waited... not sure.
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I had the inverse problem. IMAP stoped retreiving my mail and POP3 worked
(I had 2 IMAP + 3 GMAIL)
Now 1 IMAP, 1 POP and 3 GMAIL
Email Client Is Too Slow
Why is the email client so dang slow?
It's slow in general but mostly when I go to delete emails.
If I select several emails for deletion they pop off one at a time every 5 seconds or so.
No other phone I've owned has ever taken this long to do something as simple as delete an email.
Is this a problem with just the Captivate and TouchWiz, or does it happen with other Android phones as well?
Will this be fixed in FroYo?
Also for some reason some e-mail clients like Eudora, has an issue with the stock e-mail app from Samsung, it does not have proper mail headers and Eudora will show up as gibberish. I have switched over to MailDroid and it seems to be a lot more responsive, less of a memory hog and actually has no problems with Eudora and other mail clients that require mime in the headers. As well as I got a -2 e-mail on an iMap account under the Samsung Stock E-mail app...
Cheers,
Charlie
Ok, I know I am doing something wrong, but no idea what.
I have several Gmail imap accounts, and for some reason when I enable "push" email through k9 emails are delayed or not received/ sent at all. I know they work because androids stock gmail handler works just fine with them. I setup the proper gmail settings (at least I think I did):
imap.gmail.com
port 993 ssl on
smtp.gmail.com
I tried both tls port 587 and ssl.
no idea about the other settings needed.
Thanks in advance.
lamista72 said:
Ok, I know I am doing something wrong, but no idea what.
I have several Gmail imap accounts, and for some reason when I enable "push" email through k9 emails are delayed or not received/ sent at all. I know they work because androids stock gmail handler works just fine with them. I setup the proper gmail settings (at least I think I did):
imap.gmail.com
port 993 ssl on
smtp.gmail.com
I tried both tls port 587 and ssl.
no idea about the other settings needed.
Thanks in advance.
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Honestly never used GMail in K9, as I use my own webmail, but can you clarify which is it; they seem to be not push or never works? If you do a "Refresh mail" does it receive one ones? If so, Push seems to not be working. If it never gets mail, something's clearly wrong.
Your settings seem to be right for the incoming mail server, smtp server doesn't matter for receiving but you'll want to configure it at some point of course.
There is logging you can turn on which might shed some light, although I assume it goes out to logcat... You could use adb logcat, or alogcat from the Market.
The IRC channel on Freenode, #k-9 might also be able to directly help. I quickly looked at their Issues tracker and found nothing related to GMail being completely broken..
The best way I can explain it is this way:
In stock gmail handler I get notifications when I get emails..then I go check and it fetches the emails when I go to the inbox (automatically or something), and its virtually instant
When i run test with k-9 sometimes I get notified within a minute..sometimes 10..sometimes never...and until I get that notification the email never shows up in my inbox in k-9..but I check my pc email and it pulls it just fine (also set to imap). So I must be off on some sending to make push email work properly with k9
think I got it working....one question though...since all my accounts are "push" do I need to have "poll while pushing" enabled?..I wouldn't think so..I am guessing thats for accounts that you may have that are pop
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think I got it working....one question though...since all my accounts are "push" do I need to have "poll while pushing" enabled?..I wouldn't think so..I am guessing thats for accounts that you may have that are pop
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What did you change to make it work?
And no, Push is to get mail instantly, Poll is to get mail periodically... Say you want to sync your Sent mailbox is one example.. You don't want it instantly, but you might want to reference it later.
Hello all, just upgraded to Froyo and overall am happy with the upgrade. However I now notice I am unable to delete items from my IMAP Email Account via the Stock Email App. I have recreated the Email Account but when I try to delete any emails, it seems like its trying to move the item to the local "Trash" folder but fails. The email remains in the Inbox.
Anyone else have this problem, or can provide any solutions? I have tried K9 Mail but does not work well with my Exchange setup. I would like to retain the stock email app.
Thanks in advance.
snipes007 said:
Hello all, just upgraded to Froyo and overall am happy with the upgrade. However I now notice I am unable to delete items from my IMAP Email Account via the Stock Email App. I have recreated the Email Account but when I try to delete any emails, it seems like its trying to move the item to the local "Trash" folder but fails. The email remains in the Inbox.
Anyone else have this problem, or can provide any solutions? I have tried K9 Mail but does not work well with my Exchange setup. I would like to retain the stock email app.
Thanks in advance.
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I am not sure about 2.2 and exchange but I know that they updated the exchange email in 2.2.1 as there were issues in 2.2. One of the reasons I cant go back to 2.2 my exchange account has never worked as well as it does in 2.2.1
Exchange works perfect for me. Glad to have GAL Lookup, even though its not real-time typing lookup, but I'll take it.
My ongoing issues are with my IMAP account. On top of the not deleting, it does not poll every 15 minutes, as I've set it up to do. My mail provider lets me check login attempts and active sessions, and I can easily go 6-8 hours without seeing signs from the Captivate. The app is seriously broken.
K9 doesn't work at all with my Exchange 2010 setup, on top of the delays, I am nagged by a wrong timezone timestamp on all emails. Touchdown seems like an option, but I'd hate to pay $20 for functions that should be delivered for free.
I have also noticed this problem; just updated today. However, how have you determined that the folder move is the problem?
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I can successfully move the item among any of the folders on the IMAP server.
However, when I choose delete, it does nothing. I believe it has to do with the local Trash folder because when I recreated the account, the trash folder was not there. After deleting the first email, the Trash folder is created, but nothing is ever moved there.
Imap fails to delete
I can't believe this hasn't gotten more people up in arms. I have been able to find very little about this and no solution at all.
It was great the PPTP VPN starting working correctly after the update but to have the basic email client fails this badly is absurd.
I have read through various syncing issues, but can't find anything quite like what I'm experiencing. Also, I'm not even sure where the problem lies, whether it's IMAP configurations or a Gmail issue or an app issue. Hopefully someone can help solve my problem or guide me in a direction.
I have 2 accounts within Outlook 2007 - work email through Microsoft Exchange and a Gmail IMAP account. I have a rule set where email sent to the work account will also be copied to the Inbox of the IMAP account. On my phone (Galaxy S3) I have two Google/Gmail accounts set up - personal email (let's call it G-X) and the one that gets a copy of my work email (let's call it G-Y).
Up until a few days ago I had no problems with receiving emails and notifications but now if an email is sent directly to G-Y, I am notified through the Gmail app on the phone that I have new mail. If an email is sent to the work account, where it gets copied to the Gmail IMAP in Outlook, there is no notification, even though the message is displayed as unread/new both in Outlook and gmail.com.
I haven not installed any new apps or changed any settings on the phone recently. The only peculiar thing that happened was that there was an Exchange Server issue at work that has since been resolved. This makes me think the issue might be related to Outlook or the way the email gets copied to the IMAP account, but none of the Exchange/Outlook people I have talked to are familiar with this sort of behavior.
Can anyone shed light on this? I just want to be able to get notified when new work email comes to (gets copied to) the Gmail account set up for it.