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[Q] K-9 email questions

Hey guys,
I am trying this app as Samsung is apparently never going to update the Captivate to 2.2. and therefor we will never get the newer Gmail app that has font size adjustment, and other new features. Sorry but my eyes are a bit sick of looking at tiny text in the 2.1 Gmail app. So I installed K-9.
K-9 is pretty nice! Very customizable but I have a few questions:
1. There are so many settings in this app. Does anybody know of a good help site for this app? I just want to make sure that it pushes new emails to the device like the Gmail app does. What do I need to do to make sure this happens? It is showing 3 separate Sent folders. Not sure why I have that many.
2. Lots of images in emails are showing up as little blue question marks. (similar to flash sites on Safari on iPhone). What is happening here? These images show up fine on the iPhone Email app.
Thanks guys!

So it is pushing messages to K-9, but when I delete a message from K-9 inbox, the gmail inbox (webmail or Gmail app) does not reflect these changes.
Can anybody explain this behaviour?
Thanks!

I've also noticed that but it doesn't really bother me too much considering how much space Gmail gives me. So I don't really bother to delete anything anyway.

I just like my inboxes to match. Maybe there is some setting I am missing. I really want to keep using K-9 as it is really a pleasure to read email with.

not sure if i am right but pretty sure 2.2 is coming out mid-late Nov (next month)....

clueless captivate said:
not sure if i am right but pretty sure 2.2 is coming out mid-late Nov (next month)....
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Unfortunately the Samsung press release is from Samsung UK, and is a little vague about 2.2 for carriers outside the UK getting 2.2.
I am not holding my breath.

macpilot said:
So it is pushing messages to K-9, but when I delete a message from K-9 inbox, the gmail inbox (webmail or Gmail app) does not reflect these changes.
Can anybody explain this behaviour?
Thanks!
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Have you adjusted the following setting correctly?
Menu > Settings > Account Settings > Fetching Mail > "When I delete a message"

Shovelhead84 said:
Have you adjusted the following setting correctly?
Menu > Settings > Account Settings > Fetching Mail > "When I delete a message"
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Dude, thanks!
Upon some more playing around, I have determined this is really a nice email app and I am shocked it is free. Hopefully it is secure. Amazing how customizable it is.
Do you use it instead of Gmail or Email on your device?

macpilot said:
Dude, thanks!
Upon some more playing around, I have determined this is really a nice email app and I am shocked it is free. Hopefully it is secure. Amazing how customizable it is.
Do you use it instead of Gmail or Email on your device?
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I use it for my non-Gmail email accounts. Really like it. I set it to auto download emails only when Active sync is on my phone which gives me an easy way to control this function without going into settings. I don't like my email to get downloaded while I am sitting at my computer at work, but all other times. Use Tasker then to turn this setting on and off at appropriate times of day and week. Never could get this to work exactly like this in WM. I love Android!!!

macpilot said:
Dude, thanks!
Upon some more playing around, I have determined this is really a nice email app and I am shocked it is free. Hopefully it is secure. Amazing how customizable it is.
Do you use it instead of Gmail or Email on your device?
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Yes, I do. I use it for a work account and a second personal account but keep gmail on it's own app. There are some options that make it very nice for multiple accounts and easy access. Color coding individual accounts, alternating sync times and setting "time of day" sync schedules are just some of them.
I have tried a few email apps now and K-9 slaps them all. I am having trouble finding issues or a lack of options in this free app. Almost doesn't make since. It's worth contributing to for sure.

Honeycomb Stock Email App Problem!

Okay, I'm gettting really really pissed off at this issue and I need to know if this is just my tab or a honeycomb issue!! So using the stock email app (not the Gmail app) i send an email and i find that it appears as unread under sent. I figure that's fine so i click the checkbox and mark as unread--resync my email and i find that it still says unread!! Even if i give it a day or two, the "Unread Sent Mail" just stacks up...so frustrating. Am I the only one here? I can do a factory reset if that's the only option but i'm always busy and don't feel like rerooting and reconfiguring my tab to the way i want....any help? Btw, anybody else experience their alarm icon disappearing randomly during the day? Thanks for any comments or words of motivation haha

its the app problem... stop using that ****ty app... and go download a better apps at market like k9mail

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edan1979 said:
its the app problem... stop using that ****ty app... and go download a better apps at market like k9mail
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Thanks for the suggestion but I figured out sync issues by Changing my IMAP prefix then using a computer to log into gmail and select which IMAP folders to hide.

Deleted emails keep coming back

Do you guys have a problem with deleted emails reappearing in your inbox after having already deleted them? I think it is more an android problem than a TF300 problem as my previous android tablet using Honeycomb and Gingerbread did the same thing. I find myself having to delete the same email several times before it finally stops coming back.
I also noticed recently that I am getting a little audible "chirp" when new email arrives along with the visual notification on the bottom right of the screen. Has ICS always been doing this or is it something new?

ualdriver said:
Do you guys have a problem with deleted emails reappearing in your inbox after having already deleted them? I think it is more an android problem than a TF300 problem as my previous android tablet using Honeycomb and Gingerbread did the same thing. I find myself having to delete the same email several times before it finally stops coming back.
I also noticed recently that I am getting a little audible "chirp" when new email arrives along with the visual notification on the bottom right of the screen. Has ICS always been doing this or is it something new?
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What email app are you using? The one that comes with stock? That one sucks

jgaf said:
What email app are you using? The one that comes with stock? That one sucks
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Well then that could be my problem as I am using the stock email app. Which do you suggest I try?

ualdriver said:
Do you guys have a problem with deleted emails reappearing in your inbox after having already deleted them? I think it is more an android problem than a TF300 problem as my previous android tablet using Honeycomb and Gingerbread did the same thing. I find myself having to delete the same email several times before it finally stops coming back.
I also noticed recently that I am getting a little audible "chirp" when new email arrives along with the visual notification on the bottom right of the screen. Has ICS always been doing this or is it something new?
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It could be that you don't have the app set to delete email from the server when you delete, and thus it is resyncing it. The chirp could be stopped by either disabling notifications in the app, or making sure the notification volume is set to 0.

ualdriver said:
Well then that could be my problem as I am using the stock email app. Which do you suggest I try?
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I personally use the Gmail app, but I've good things about kaiten and k9 never tried them though. I had the same problem on my nookcolor with my hotmail email, everytime I opened it I would see old emails.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2

Using stock email app for a pop/smtp email server, set to do not delete from server, and I do not receive the emails more than once, even after delete.
Possibly your email server is incorrectly configured.

TXKSSnapper said:
It could be that you don't have the app set to delete email from the server when you delete, and thus it is resyncing it. The chirp could be stopped by either disabling notifications in the app, or making sure the notification volume is set to 0.
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OK got the chirp to stop, thanks. I do have the settings to delete email when deleted from inbox.
jgaf said:
I personally use the Gmail app, but I've good things about kaiten and k9 never tried them though. I had the same problem on my nookcolor with my hotmail email, everytime I opened it I would see old emails.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2
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Yeah, I should try kaiten, but there is no free version to try out and it costs 5 bucks to do what looks like the Asus app already does.
nullzorz said:
Using stock email app for a pop/smtp email server, set to do not delete from server, and I do not receive the emails more than once, even after delete.
Possibly your email server is incorrectly configured.
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Yeah but that leaves the emails on the mail server then when I check my email from my main computer it downloads them again.

Help: Gmail notifications weird issue

Hi all,
OK - I have the Sony Gmail app installed on my SW2 and I'm using a stock (rooted) LG2.
On the phone, I don't need (or want) Gmail running in the background so have all notifications & sync disabled - basically, I just want Gmail to work a) when I check it manually or b) occasionally when I'm waiting for a mail to come through and need notifications on my watch and will enable them.
Weird bit.
I disable everything as mentioned, and the phone happily shows me no notifications, BUT the SW2 does!
I check the phone when one comes through on the watch and sure enough there's none there and I have to swipe down to poll the account.
My question: which app is polling the account - is it the Gmail app or the SW2 extension - and more importantly, how can I stop either/both of them doing it and save battery life/my sanity?
Is the phone secretly checking in the background for mail but not showing me any notifications?
Thanks for any tips.

If you don't want to poll Gmail, then, remove the extension from the watch.

n3vry said:
If you don't want to poll Gmail, then, remove the extension from the watch.
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Yes, but if you read my post you'll see that I occasionally do need to poll Gmail.
Your suggestion is a bit like "if you don't like being stuck in traffic, sell your car".

I use an app called Watchify, in it you can enable/disable notifications pretty much on the fly. It's now a paid app, but free trial for 14 days. I liked it enough to buy it. You can turn off Gmail notifications when not needed, then back on when needed. But you will have to do it from SmartConnect on the phone. I think maybe you might be looking for a filter for Gmail.

n3vry said:
I use an app called Watchify, in it you can enable/disable notifications pretty much on the fly. It's now a paid app, but free trial for 14 days. I liked it enough to buy it. You can turn off Gmail notifications when not needed, then back on when needed. But you will have to do it from SmartConnect on the phone. I think maybe you might be looking for a filter for Gmail.
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Yeah, I use Notfify Smartwatch ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.shuisky.notify ).
I can use this actually instead of the Gmail app.
I'm still confused as to what's polling the Gmail account though. The phone certainly doesn't seem to be, but these extensions don't work independently.
Do you see what I mean? It's like the phone is polling the account, just not showing any notification to prove it is.
It's very odd.

I guess the first question I should have asked is, what apps/ext on you running on your SW2?

n3vry said:
I guess the first question I should have asked is, what apps/ext on you running on your SW2?
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Call Handling
Messaging
Gmail
Notify Smartwatch
That's it.

The extension works independent - directly accesses your account not using Gmail App. So it's correct that the extension ignores what your phone notifications tell or hide

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The extension works independent - directly accesses your account not using Gmail App. So it's correct that the extension ignores what your phone notifications tell or hide
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Wow. Is that so..
So, question answered then - thanks very much.
it's a bit hit and miss. e.g. this email notification came through, but the notification for the other thread replies didn't.
Not much use anyway!

I think it might be following the rules of categorising in Gmail website where those mails might be put together in one thread. But idk... I'm using stock Xperia Email and Extension.
On my S4 I used AquaMail with AquaMail Extension. Worked well.

Trespassing said:
I think it might be following the rules of categorising in Gmail website where those mails might be put together in one thread. But idk... I'm using stock Xperia Email and Extension.
On my S4 I used AquaMail with AquaMail Extension. Worked well.
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Yeah, you could be right.
All seems to be working well now with the Gmail SW2 app removed anyway.
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kryogenik said:
All seems to be working well now with the Gmail SW2 app removed anyway.
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you sold the car then?

No, just changed the type of fuel it uses..

To the makers of this Gmail smart extension.....I noticed today that my data was being used so I decided to investigate, 1.47 GB was used for Gmail smart extension. What the F---? This is a bad app and I demand a solution to this as you just cost me most of my data plan!

Gmail and Calendar question

I've read different reviews and I'm a bit puzzled since I still don't have the watch i ordered weeks ago.
I have a S6 and I read that even with a Samsung phone you need to download android Wear to be able to respond to Gmail emails? Is this true? I was under the impression i can reply to emails and delete them without anything installed.
Also with the Calendar is it true you can't create calendar events?
Thanks

arf8 said:
I've read different reviews and I'm a bit puzzled since I still don't have the watch i ordered weeks ago.
I have a S6 and I read that even with a Samsung phone you need to download android Wear to be able to respond to Gmail emails? Is this true? I was under the impression i can reply to emails and delete them without anything installed.
Also with the Calendar is it true you can't create calendar events?
Thanks
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Not sure about GMail but replying to Samsung's inbuilt email app is possible. However, typing an email reply on the tiny keyboard is a bit of a chore. It takes patience.
It is true that you can't set up calendar events directly from the watch. This is a big disappointment but it is possible it could be included in a future update.

apprentice said:
Not sure about GMail but replying to Samsung's inbuilt email app is possible. However, typing an email reply on the tiny keyboard is a bit of a chore. It takes patience.
It is true that you can't set up calendar events directly from the watch. This is a big disappointment but it is possible it could be included in a future update.
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Thanks for the quick reply, I assume you have the watch. I don't use the inbuilt email app i think the app is an envelope with @ logo in it. I use Gmail so I read that if you want to reply to a Gmail email you have to install Android Wear which I'm not sure if this is true or not. If you can test this I would appreciate it and by reply I mean voice recognition response not typing on the watch keyboard. I have a hard enough time on the phone fat fingering everything so now way I could do it on the watch, this is where i miss my blackberry.
Very disappointing on the calendar event. This is one of the reasons i ordered this watch along with the phone call option.
Cheers

arf8 said:
I use Gmail so I read that if you want to reply to a Gmail email you have to install Android Wear which I'm not sure if this is true or not.
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Android Wear is an operating system used by other smartwatches. It can't be put onto the Gear S3.

You are incorrect! Android wear is an app in play, look it up, this is what one user said he installed to get more functionality out of the S3 with google apps.

arf8 said:
You are incorrect! Android wear is an app in play, look it up, this is what one user said he installed to get more functionality out of the S3 with google apps.
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Yes, but it can only be used if you are pairing with an Android Wear smartwatch. it won't do anything for gear S3.

Not according to an S3 owner who posted this. I don't have the watch yet so I can't say for sure that is why I started this thread. According to him he installed it to gain more functionality to the gmail app. I'll test it myself when the watch finally arrives and post my own results here. Cheers

Android Wear APK include library for notification action on the Android OS. I do not know why Google do not include directly this library in the master OS but they are on the Android Wear phone app. So just install it to have this feature. No need to connect any Wear watch on the phone

dersie said:
Android Wear APK include library for notification action on the Android OS. I do not know why Google do not include directly this library in the master OS but they are on the Android Wear phone app. So just install it to have this feature. No need to connect any Wear watch on the phone
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So what exactly does it add?
Notifications are already passed to the watch.

Add buttons for notifications action like
- Mark as read
- Reply
- Archive
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I tested now, and it is actually correct. By installing Android wear(and not doing anything else), I suddenly can reply to GMAIL e-mails from the S3 without using the Samsung Mail App.

I do not whether Android Wear app adds anything but indeed in the Pebble sphere, one would add the Android Wear app to gain additional features. Depends if they are hooking to the APIS's enabled by the app.

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Add buttons for notifications action like
- Mark as read
- Reply
- Archive
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ga123 said:
I tested now, and it is actually correct. By installing Android wear(and not doing anything else), I suddenly can reply to GMAIL e-mails from the S3 without using the Samsung Mail App.
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Thanks for the confirmation, so going back to my original question, by default if you do not have Android wear installed, you cannot reply when receiving Gmail emails? is this correct?
Cheers

I have the watch and I'm able to reply all natively without installing any Android wear apps.
arf8 said:
Thanks for the confirmation, so going back to my original question, by default if you do not have Android wear installed, you cannot reply when receiving Gmail emails? is this correct?
Cheers
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gremlin007 said:
I have the watch and I'm able to reply all natively without installing any Android wear apps.
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I understand you can reply to the native Android email client, but are you able to reply to Gmail app is the question?

sorry, i wasn't clear...it's through the gmail notification on the watch but strictly through the notification, If you've swiped the notification away then you can't and you'd have to go through samsung's email app.
arf8 said:
Thanks for the confirmation, so going back to my original question, by default if you do not have Android wear installed, you cannot reply when receiving Gmail emails? is this correct?
Cheers
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arf8 said:
I understand you can reply to the native Android email client, but are you able to reply to Gmail app is the question?
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Ok that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, just confirming you can reply, archive, etc, from the Gmail notification or just reply or delete in the native app (no archiving). The only thing the native app adds is the ability to look at your inbox, and reply to one of those emails. Once you've replied or swiped away the Gmail notification, there's no way to get into Gmail.
What I didn't realize, is that there is no way to initiate an email! Only reply. Strange...

When you say native app i assume you mean native email app on the watch correct? I don't use the native email client from android OS. I use google but i assume you mean watch native email app.
I apologize for all the questions, this would be easier if i had the watch but its on backorder.
Thanks

Gmail
ga123 said:
I tested now, and it is actually correct. By installing Android wear(and not doing anything else), I suddenly can reply to GMAIL e-mails from the S3 without using the Samsung Mail App.
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My friend how you install Gmail on S3. I have android wear installed too, but just the default email, not the real Gmail icon.