Exchange & Gmail Shortcuts - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

with android 5 the stand alone exchange email app is gone merged in to the gmail app.... this may sound very petty but i liked having the two separate apps... now to switch email accounts i'm having to provide two extra inputs.... i realize it takes a whole 0.5 seconds to switch between accounts.... but that is still slower than the old way
is there anyway to have a widget shortcut that will pull up my work exchange inbox and then have the old gmail shortcut pull up my personal email inbox? I check my email a lot so it is very annoying right now with them combined in one app
edit: google found me this thread which also had people complaining about this... looks like for now only fix is 3rd party apps for exchange accounts http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-5/461052-lollipop-killed-stock-email-app.html

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Gmail email not showing under people activity

Hello all,
I have noticed that my hero does not keep track of gmail email under the people section (when you scroll left to right under email)
any ideas on how to integrate this?
or am I the only one experiencing this probleM??
jtadeo said:
Hello all,
I have noticed that my hero does not keep track of gmail email under the people section (when you scroll left to right under email)
any ideas on how to integrate this?
or am I the only one experiencing this probleM??
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The Gmail app is not integrated with HTC's People app and I doubt if it will be as it is proprietary Google code and not part of android. If you want to see your Gmail show up, you should add it as an exchange/imap/pop account using the regular mail app. I have both the Gmail app as well as an imap account for my Gmail. That way, I can see my gmail under people and have the convenience of push email with the gmail app without drawing too much battery.

[Q] Email Client?

The installed email client (not gmail) looks decent but fails to support TLS as well as map folders such as Trash -> Deleted Items. I read the forums and noticed that Google neglected mapping issue since 2009!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811
I tried K-9 Mail for my IMAP email and found it to be quite decent but have a few issues:
1) Is there a widget that can display unread e-mail just like the default one? or last 3 e-mails display?
2) Can I replace the icon?
3) Is there a roadmap to include like a two-pane display like the default email client? Or another email client that is Honeycomb optimized?
4) Is there a way to disable the default e-mail client service since I will be longer be using it? Do I have to care about such services running in the background?
Thanks in advance!
ASR831 said:
The installed email client (not gmail) looks decent but fails to support TLS as well as map folders such as Trash -> Deleted Items. I read the forums and noticed that Google neglected mapping issue since 2009!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811
I tried K-9 Mail for my IMAP email and found it to be quite decent but have a few issues:
1) Is there a widget that can display unread e-mail just like the default one? or last 3 e-mails display?
2) Can I replace the icon?
3) Is there a roadmap to include like a two-pane display like the default email client? Or another email client that is Honeycomb optimized?
4) Is there a way to disable the default e-mail client service since I will be longer be using it? Do I have to care about such services running in the background?
Thanks in advance!
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Try Kaiten mail from the Market. It's based on K9, and made by the same person. Has the split pane thing. Little less polished than the stock offering, but the feature set more than makes up for it.
As for disabling stock, I guess just delete the accounts - shouldn't take up any resources that way. Or, go the whole way, and root your Transformer, then you can delete the Email.apk
+1 on Kaiten Mail. 4 updates in the past week - the developer is on top of it, and responds to emails. It's much more polished than it was 2 weeks ago.
Didn't know about Kaiten! Thanks! Hopefully it has the folder mapping. I guess I can find out by trying it for 15 minutes.
Do you know if there is a widget that would work with it?
+1 on Kaiten.
I don't think there is a widget for it. I wish there was...
There is no widget, and I've asked the dev about this - he has got some higher priority additions to make, and will hopefully have a widget done over the summer.
Well, despite rebooting working for me as mentioned above.. it appears as though a problem has crept in with the Asus email app.. basically if I have the transformer's WiFi sleep policy set to "WiFi off when screen off" then the Exchange push email config I have with my gmail stops working.. a reboot fixes it, but I know that this was working before...
The only thing I can think of trying is deleting my email setup and re-applying it - which I've done now.. will see if that cures anything but not holding my breath..
Anyone else using Exchange sync (to gmail) with the Asus email app.. and the same WiFi sleep settings?
I'm trying out Kaiten mail as well. Had some definite enhancements over K9 though some little glitches. For a dollar over the weekend in the Market it's worth playing with. Think i still prefer gmail app bc I got used to the convenience of the conversation style grouping which I find very handy for reviewing strings of messages. Hope to see Kaiten mail evolve as I'm sure it will.
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Aqua Mail questions

I tried this email application when I heard it was similar to K9 in features but had a much better looking interface.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail
But while it was easy to setup Push for my Gmail accounts, I don't get the same option when trying to setup Push for my Live or Hotmail accounts. Is this not possible?
Also, I can't find an option to mark emails as "SPAM". I can only delete them. Any ideas?
Edit: Okay I uninstalled & reinstalled the app and added my Live account first. Now I get the option for Push and use it. But it's not behaving like push. Takes awhile to get notified of emails, while my Enhanced Email app gets notified immediately. I just wish the EE app wasn't a battery hog for me on 4.2. It was great on 4.1 Android.

Email app that works like gmail or inbox for third party emails?

I WAS using LiveMail for a while until Android Oreo came out and Livemail just outright refused to work. I'm dying for an update on the app but it doesn't seem like it'll be getting one anytime soon it seems as the developers won't comment on the request for an update on the multiple reviews making note of the fact it doesn't work on Android 8.0 yet. Usually, when someone makes such a comment in their reviews developers will respond to it but they won't it seems.
So I'm looking hard for a new email app to replace LiveMail that works like Gmail or even Inbox if possible but for other email services like Yahoo, AOL, Yandex, etc. an email app that automatically categorizes your emails based on the content. Now I know you might say "Gmail can do that for your third-party email services" and while that's technically true it requires you to link them to your Gmail accounts, of which I only have a few, I can't randomly create new Gmail accounts just to categorize my other emails inboxes. If INBOX had support for third-party emails and without the need to link said emails to a Gmail account I'd be all for it. but sadly it doesn't.
Does anyone have a recommendation? even if it's an app that must be bought I'll take a look at it.

Looking for an email app that works like Inbox for other third party email services.

So for a while, I was using Live Mail on my Pixel but then randomly after getting the oreo update the app itself just refused to function properly. I've emailed the developers of the app and they haven't gotten back to me about any possible future update to make it work again on the latest version. So I thought I'd come here to ask for an alternative option. I understand that the Gmail app lets you categorize third-party emails through it BUT it's extremely limited to only the 3 basic type of categories and even then it requires you to link your email up with a Gmail and even THEN it doesn't show the other emails in their own tab, it shows them all in the Gmail account you have it linked to combined with the email's emails too. And even THEN if you have multiple emails you have to make fake gmail link them all up properly to the Gmail app for that organization if you have multiple emails but only one Gmail. Live Mail organized my emails pretty darn well even if it had its issues, no app is perfect. Now, this is meant to be a thread asking for an Android alternative but if I must I'll use some kind of third party organizer like GetOrganizer.com or something tho I have yet to see that work for me honestly. I just want to get my inbox's organized again without requiring me to move everything around manually. I can't sit there for hours on end organizing an inbox one at a time when I have the Inbox by Google doing it for me in my Gmail account. ANY suggestions???

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