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[Q] New EMail problem

After searching google and the local forum search I've seen no other instances of this. My apologies if it's been discussed. I'm running Android 2.3.1 with kernel 2.6.35.7-g7f1638a. I'm using the default EMail app to access a private email server. So the inbox loads the 25 most recent messages. So far so good. But when I delete some it then redownloads the older messages and reflags them as new. I'm constantly being told I have new emails because it's flagging old ones as new after it reloads them. I have not seen any option to change the number of emails it loads or anything else that might work around this. Has anyone else noticed similar behavior?

citizenkaine said:
After searching google and the local forum search I've seen no other instances of this. My apologies if it's been discussed. I'm running Android 2.3.1 with kernel 2.6.35.7-g7f1638a. I'm using the default EMail app to access a private email server. So the inbox loads the 25 most recent messages. So far so good. But when I delete some it then redownloads the older messages and reflags them as new. I'm constantly being told I have new emails because it's flagging old ones as new after it reloads them. I have not seen any option to change the number of emails it loads or anything else that might work around this. Has anyone else noticed similar behavior?
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Could be an email server end problem. Should be set to mark messages retrieved by pop as read. It sounds like it's not, so every time your phone asks for new messages, the server serves them up again.
There might be an advanced setting on the email app's preferences or setup that can address this...look for something about leaving messages on server unread or similar.
I'm not currently using anything but gmail app, so can't double check on my own phone to give you clearer advice.

How do I email a distribution/contact list in the gmail app?

You'd think this would be a built in feature...I have a group of people I need to email on a regular basis, but the only way I can do it in the gmail app is by "Reply All" to a previous email and delete all the old email/subject...
Why in heaven's name can't I easily email multiple people from the app? I can do it online on my laptop...am I missing something here, or is this just a glaring oversight on Google's part?

Really? Nobody knows this?
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Oversight.
Best suggestion, as you've already figured out, is save a draft with the contact info.

AMAZING
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JCopernicus said:
Oversight.
Best suggestion, as you've already figured out, is save a draft with the contact info.
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That seems like a pretty big oversight...what a bunch of goons. Thanks.

These are the same guys that omitted sending to groups in the text messaging program.

not to hijack, but how i can i get images to automatically display on my emails?

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These are the same guys that omitted sending to groups in the text messaging program.
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Ha, that's a very good point that I had forgotten...
Nothing chaps my ass more than little **** like that that's forgotten/omitted.

A year later, and those fools still haven't updated the app so users can send emails to distribution lists they've setup. Jerks.

A working solution
This method was described somewhere on these forums, and it works. I am just repeating what someone else discovered.
Make a new contact, using a name which is meaningful to you.
For the email address, build a list of the emails for everyone in the group, using this pattern:
[email protected]>,<[email protected]>,<[email protected]>,<[email protected]
NOTE the >,< between each contact, but nothing before the first email in the list, and nothing after the final email in the list.
This works around the missing group function.

Download and use ContactGroupU from the Google Play store.

on your computer go to gmail and add those contacts in some group and call it something for example "912dd" and go on the app and in the "To:" Area start typing the name "912dd" and select it when it shows up

Email related problem

Whenever I reply an email from my phone. Instead of showing the correct sender's email in a quote, It shows a bunch of code. These code display both on the the phone (sent items) and on Gmail web page.
My question are what is causing the problem and how to solve it?
Thank you very much
Enclosed some desmonstration.

Whoa... I've enver seen that before, sorry.
A few questions that might be relevant:
What language is the phone configured to use?
Is the email being sent directly to your Gmail account, or are you forwarding it from another server (and if so, which)?
Did you configure the Gmail account using the Google account template on the phone, or did you set it up as just an IMAP or POP3 email server?
What OS version is on your phone? (There has been at elast one update regarding original message body handling.)
The phone doesn't usually modify the original message at all (something some people have complained about, actually) so this is really weird. On my Gmail account, I've never seen anything like that.

Thanks for replying
The phone is an HTC Radar with HD2O's Dynamics7 1.21 - build is 8779
Language is en-UK
I'm pretty sure it's not about the ROM because I've encountered this problem on stock Mango ROM.
Mail arrives as usual and I reply by pressing Reply button.
It's a mailbox configured by adding Google Account, not manually configured.
I think the problem is on text encoding but don't know how to solve it yet

Highlighted Email Text

I want to report something that I'm not sure is a bug. I guess I just need some advice
When using the AOSP-based Corporate email app, I'm getting unintentionally highlighted text in my messages
Example:
If I open my email app and search for "hello", I see all emails that contain the word "hello". Also, the text within the email "hello" is highlighted in yellow.
If I reply or forward that message, the highlighted text persists which can be seen by all recipients.
I can duplicate it on my friend's stock Galaxy Nexus and on my Galaxy S3. It happens with all AOSP based email apps (4.0+).
The really strange thing is that I can't find anyone online who is reporting the same thing. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks

No idea but I find AquaMail to be a awesome email client, maybe switch if it meets your requirements?

x714x said:
No idea but I find AquaMail to be a awesome email client, maybe switch if it meets your requirements?
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It doesn't work for me. I need full Exchange 2010 integration and AquaMail only operates with IMAP / POP enabled. I'm wondering if it is just my Exchange server. I find it hard to believe that no one else has reported this. I'm wondering if maybe this was a "feature" added by Google and I'm just not seeing the value haha
Thanks for your reply

Cannot fix wrong email and resend with gmail app on CM10.1 nightly

So had a very interesting situation... Needed to send an email to [email protected] but was provided the email address as [email protected] (where xx is the 2 letter country code). Naturally, after hitting send, got a bounce back for undeliverable address. Then was told by the recipient that the .xx at the end of the address should not be there.
So I try to recompose but everytime, the gmail app matches to the now remembered "wrong" address and replaces the recipient with this address which naturally fails. For the life of me, I could not figure out how to edit this address before sending since it would rematch back to the broken address after the edit. So it became impossible to now send to this recipient using their correct email address. Well, not impossible but the workaround was fugly.
I am running the latest 10.1 nightly. The fundamental problem seems to be that the contacts app is one created by CM(??) and it lacks the ability to view the "other/not assigned" group which is where this one off recipient address should have been listed so I could delete/edit it.
Of course, it would also have helped if the gmail app tried to be less "intelligent" and stop matching if after the first match, you edit the address or provide a way to edit without matching to previous recipients.
Alas, was quite a frustrating experience for such a simple problem...
FWIW, was talking to someone running stock and their contacts app (ie. the one from Google) had the ability to view the "other/not assigned" group and so it was possible to delete the wrong recipient.

Try logging into the desktop site. Should be an option on there to delete recent email addresses that are not part of your contacts.
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Yeah. That's a convoluted workaround. The other option was to forward to one of my yahoo account and forward again from there.
Was hoping there was something I had overlooked but seems like you hose an email address, there is no easy way to correct that and resend in the gmail app if you are on a phone.