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Push email problems

I recently updates my Surface to 8.1 RTM but I've now found that push email is very, very unreliable.
Basically, I set up an outlook.com account but nothing that goes to that account is showing up on the tablet via push. It will receive the email if I launch the app manually but that's the only way it receives it. The account is set to "as it arrives" and the setup was pretty much automatic - all I had to do was enter the email address and password.
I also have a IMAP Gmail account and even that used to work perfectly on 8, giving me push email. On 8.1, it just doesn't receive unless I launch the app.
Also, finally, I've also stopped getting any notifications at all for any email accounts. I used to get a banner on the top right of the screen and an audio alarm but since 8.1, I don't get that either.
Does anyone have any experience of these problems using the stock Mail app?

Homey said:
Also, finally, I've also stopped getting any notifications at all for any email accounts. I used to get a banner on the top right of the screen and an audio alarm but since 8.1, I don't get that either.
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The rest of your problem I have no idea as I don't have 8.1 yet. But this one. My laptop came relatively upto date and does this on windows 8, no banner, no alarm :/ My desktop I installed 8 while it was still discounted, it used to do banners, then a few months ago I decided that the big "20" on the market app was annoying me and I updated my apps, notifications now gone from mail.

Stock email APP - not deleting

OK, I switched from stock APP because it wasn't showing the correct number of email on the icon.
I then got through about 6 other mail APPS to try and resolve the notification issues well covered in other threads.
I've now gone full circle, just about got notifications sorted, but now the Stock Mail APP works fine, except, the deleted folder keeps filling back up with previously deleted emails
I've even gone online and deleted them on the main Sky Account - no difference.
Any suggestions welcome.
Only had Mate 9 for a week so still learning all that's new in EMUI 5

Nobody else have this? Weird! I'll just have to try other email APPS again.

I haven't bothered with the stock app because it only updates every 15 minutes which is useless IMO.
The Outlook app seems to be OK and doesn't suffer from the notifications problem.

RR-99 said:
I haven't bothered with the stock app because it only updates every 15 minutes which is useless IMO.
The Outlook app seems to be OK and doesn't suffer from the notifications problem.
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Thanks, RR-99, do you happen to know if it allows POP3 set-ups as well as IMAP ?

Can't say I'm afraid. I'm using it on IMAP and it works fine for that. It's just very limited in what it does, I'd still prefer to go back to MailDroid.
It's free though so worth trying.
The problem with any app on the Mate 9 is that if you speak to Huawei they have the same answer "We don't support it" which is crazy. That's what we buy the phone for.

I have the same problem with my mate 9 pro, i tried to delete cashe area but no difference, it worked in the beginning, but after a break of 2 weeks i wont delete and recover the old emails, sometimes i can delete the one by one, but its a long way when you delete 10 the 8 comes back and i have 200 mails to delete.

gmail not pushing mail

So, ever since the N update on my S7 and now on the S8, my email doesn't push/sync right away at all anymore. I have to go into the email for it update. I'm not sure whyy it's doing this. I haven't set it up that way, have background data allowed, and don't have any battery saviors set up to do this...
Any ideas on this why this is happening?

Nougat's overly aggressive doze is the cause here. Fix: https://androidtutorial.net/2017/05/02/fix-delayed-push-notifications-galaxy-s8s8/
The option under Special Access you want to look at is Optimise battery Usage.

I have the same issue. I have gmail set so that it is NOT Optimized for battery. I still don't get gmail updates (and therefore no notification) until I open the app (usually). Sometimes I do get the notification soon after the email is sent to me. Rather random.
After messing around for a while, I think it is a no notification thing and not a lack of synchronizing the emails. If I send myself a gmail, I get no notification, but I can look in my google account and see where gmail has synchronized. Then I go to gmail and the message is there.

^yep, could be related...but how to resolve?

Possible Solution - Worked for Me (So Far)
galaxys said:
^yep, could be related...but how to resolve?
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So, I solved it by going to the app manager and disabling the gmail app. Since it is a system app, it doesn't uninstall it, but reverts it back to some previous version. That version has been giving me the appropriate notifications for every email I have received since.
I think I will look at disabling updates for gmail for a while.

Smithfolk4 said:
So, I solved it by going to the app manager and disabling the gmail app. Since it is a system app, it doesn't uninstall it, but reverts it back to some previous version. That version has been giving me the appropriate notifications for every email I have received since.
I think I will look at disabling updates for gmail for a while.
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I deleted data for the app. That also fixed the problem (for now anyway)

This has been an ongoing issue for me for over a year. It was an issue on this phone, my S7 edge and Note7.
Often I will see an email on my phone, read and archive it, then go about my business. Several hours later I go into Gmail on my PC and that email is still sitting there, unread.
Actually sending out an email on the phone seems to make the sync update, but other actions like reading, moving, or deleting emails doesn't. I've had times where my emails were still unread on the Gmail website 12 hours after reading them on the phone. I have the app's battery optimization settings turned off, and I have even gone into the app several times during that period and pulled down to check for new messages. It's pretty awful that the sync has such serious issues and nobody is fixing it.
Deleting the app's updates doesn't work for me. It might fix the issue briefly, but it always comes back pretty quickly, even without any updates to the app.
The only thing that fixed the issue for me was installing an app called something like "Gmail Push Fixer". It worked wonders on my S7 edge. Unfortunately, the app requires root so it isn't an option on my Snapdragon S8+.

Samsung email app disable notifications

Hi guys
I've been using the s3 since launch and it's been fine up until recently. I don't know if this happened when the gear app updated on my phone but lately the email notifications are playing up. I use the Gmail app for my personal mail and the Samsung email app for my exchange work mail.
The way I want it set up is Gmail notifications come through to my watch but work email doesn't. So I have gone in to notifications on the gear app and disabled email. This work fine for a couple of days but then it re enables itself. Does anyone else have a similar problem?
Cheers

Gear Notifications
rob77 said:
Hi guys
I've been using the s3 since launch and it's been fine up until recently. I don't know if this happened when the gear app updated on my phone but lately the email notifications are playing up. I use the Gmail app for my personal mail and the Samsung email app for my exchange work mail.
The way I want it set up is Gmail notifications come through to my watch but work email doesn't. So I have gone in to notifications on the gear app and disabled email. This work fine for a couple of days but then it re enables itself. Does anyone else have a similar problem?
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Same issue here. The samsung app notification setting keeps kicking back on after I change it. Happens just about every 24 hours. Love to hear a suggestion to correct. Thanks!

Hi jvarny
To be honest I gave up trying to get it to work. I have tried 2 different phone's with both Nougat and Marshmallow Roms but still the same. I've uninstalled Samsung email now and just added my exchange account to Gmail. Works really well for what I use it for.

rob77 said:
Hi jvarny
To be honest I gave up trying to get it to work. I have tried 2 different phone's with both Nougat and Marshmallow Roms but still the same. I've uninstalled Samsung email now and just added my exchange account to Gmail. Works really well for what I use it for.
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Hey guys, I use Blackberry Hub for my e-mail accounts and it works fine, I can enable/disable notifications for any of the accounts without kicking back in.
Never used samsung's e-mail app.

Mate 30 Pro Notifications

Does anyone have the same problem as me I have discord, Skype and many other apps but I don’t get the notification for messages and etc!

yes I had the problem also. Got to settings-battery optimization and click on each app you want to get notifications from and select dont allow.

I have tried all of the following even with Huawei Email app:
1. Battery Op.
2. Notifications settings.
3. Even Premissions
And still nothing. I dont really

Acidburnsn0w said:
I have tried all of the following even with Huawei Email app:
1. Battery Op.
2. Notifications settings.
3. Even Premissions
And still nothing. I dont really
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I had the same problem, reset the device..
Helped me...

i did that too!!!

Resetting helps as well. Huawei has aggressive memory management.

Can you please explain what you mean by 'resetting'?
As in a full factory reset, then side-load say Skype from apkpure, then notifications are all ok? That seems hard to believe.
I have a new P40 Pro, installed Skype (never tinkered with GMS) and notifications do not work.

I have a Chinese Mate 30 Pro 5G and since March no GMS installed (they worked perfectly when I bought the phone in November last year, the seller installed them, but stopped working at some point in March - out of no reason and I haven't been able to get them working properly again since then) - Skype notifications DO NOT work. No matter what. Factory reset doesn't help, battery optimisation disabled doesn't help, keeping it working in the background doesn't help, nothing really helps ... I found out that installing the app from Amazon Appstore (the version there actually looks like Skype Lite) makes the situation a bit better - at least notifications work for some 10-15 minutes after you open the app, but then stop working again even if the app is still running in the background. So forget about being available for a skype call ... you will most probably miss it and get no notifications until you open the app again.
I've tried installing GMS again lately (by several methods), but then even less notifications worked ... And also, since updating to EMUI 10.1.0.126 it's difficult to use the Lzplay, once you get it working, you can't uninstall Google Play Sevices unless you do a factory reset of the phone – so you won't be able to follow the latest instructions for installing the Google services on your phone).
In case you're wondering - without GMS, the situation with notifications for messaging apps on my phone is the following (my use of the messaging apps below is mostly work related):
-Messenger (installed from APK Pure): works 99%, sometimes the notifications for messages are a bit delayed (for a few minutes), but receiving a call always works
-Skype: as described before, but only when installed from Amazon Appstore, the usual Skype app gives no notifications
-Viber (installed from App Gallery): mostly works, sometimes notifications are delayed (up to 1 hour)
-WhatsApp (Installed by direct download link in the App Gallery): the only app that works with no issues at all (I always get all notifications instantly)
-Slack (installed from APK Pure): no notifications at all
-Teams (installed from APK Pure): no notifications at all
-Instagram - messaging (installed from APK Pure): no notifications at all
For emails I use Outlook and I mostly get all notifications instantly or there is a slight delay (a few minutes) – I use it for all my email accounts (Exchange, Gmail, Outlook …).
Honestly, considering how many apps just don't show any notifications, I'm slowly getting to the point of loosing it. A phone worth 1k€ that can not be used as a real smart phone ... It's really a big frustration. I didn't think it would be, but it simply is. Don't get me wrong – I really LOVE Huawei phones, especially the Mate series, but … On the other hand – beside Gmail account (which is not my primary email account but I still use it), I don't use or need (and I never have) any of Google apps or services (I was a Windows Mobile user before my first Android/Huawei experience, so believe me, I never needed any of the Google »****« in my life), but in case Huawei doesn't find a solution for such basic apps that are used widely in the western world, I don't think they will be able to keep us users loyal to their brand.

getting the same problem i have the chinese version of the device so annoying

can you help us ?
thank you.