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K-9 Mail question

Hi
I had this app set up with hotmail, ive just got rid of that account and set it up with my Gmail.
Question is this....when running my hotmail i had the background set to black, it has now reverted to white (default) and i cant find the option to change back to black !!
cant find it in the settings when in K-9 or in any setting in my main app menu !!
Where the hell has it gone....maybe im going blind !
Any help !?

In the Accounts menu,
press Menu>Settings>Theme>Dark

Hi
Thanks for the answer...
Sweet.
i had some sort of mental block with pressing the Menu button twice !!!
Thanks Mate

Another question for you guys,
Is K9 a good alternative to the GMail app in terms of speed/push emails and battery usage? Does it use IMAP idle?

O and O said:
Another question for you guys,
Is K9 a good alternative to the GMail app in terms of speed/push emails and battery usage? Does it use IMAP idle?
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Yes, K9 pushes email (IMAP) and polls (POP). I would say I receive my email instantly (Gmail and University accounts). Not too sure about the battery but I think push email would drain the battery less no?

As far as I know push is better, that's good to hear, I just now need to find a comparison of the GMail application and K9 and which is better IMAP or Exchange.

O and O said:
As far as I know push is better, that's good to hear, I just now need to find a comparison of the GMail application and K9 and which is better IMAP or Exchange.
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I seem to have a problem that my contacts are not showing when I type their names in the To column. When I do this in the Gmail app, it will give some suggested email addresses Does anyone else have this problem?
Oh, and to answer your question, K-9 is definitely faster (in fact, my Gmail app doesn't seem to push at all? How do I set it to push? Do I have to set it to auto sync? Even then it takes like a minute or so where K-9 takes about 7 seconds)

is this generally deemed to be a better app than the standard one installed for POP email accounts? will give it a try

Is your K9 using activesync or imap?
I believe you need autosync on.

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Is your K9 using activesync or imap?
I believe you need autosync on.
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My K9 is using IMAP and it's fine. It pushes my gmail account. I was asking about the Gmail app but you're right, I needed to turn the autosync on. Even then, it doesn't push. It takes about a minute or two for my email to come where it only takes about 7 seconds with K-9. Now I'm concerned about the contacts not showing in K-9 I might have to use Gmail app after all

I would use the GMail app for everything but emails. You can select in options what you want to sync and not sync easily.

O and O said:
I would use the GMail app for everything but emails. You can select in options what you want to sync and not sync easily.
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I only want my Gmail app to sync with my calendar but not email. How do I do this? I go to Settings>Account & sync>Google but I only have the option to Sync now or Remove account? Can't press menu when I reach this either Am I supposed to manually press sync calendar each time?

Press your gmail account under the list of syncable items.

Anyone migrate to K9 how is it?

Push Email client

Hi,
Does the email client on the android device is push client,i have an yahoo acoount, i think it does not have push client.

Yeah I wish.
It seems blackberries are the only ones with PUSH from other providers. Plus the built in both GMAIL and MAIL apps confuse the **** out of me and make my desire less desirable.

Try seven beta version, its not in the market place and u need to register online but its free and its really good. Just Google seven Android.
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You need a mail client which supports IMAP idle. Most people recommend K-9 Mail.
The Gmail application supports push mail but can only be used with gmail accounts. The HTC mail application also supports push mail but only for exchange accounts, not IMAP.

pop your accounts into your gmail account and have gmail push it all to you

Lennyuk said:
pop your accounts into your gmail account and have gmail push it all to you
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That's hardly push is it! You still have the delay while you wait for gmail to poll the POP server. No better than using the phones mail client.

khr0n0s said:
That's hardly push is it! You still have the delay while you wait for gmail to poll the POP server. No better than using the phones mail client.
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well actually it saves you battery, gmail checks the pop roughly every 10 minutes, and your phone will only do any work when a mail is there i.e. its pushed.
if you use a normal mail client your trying to "pull every 10 minutes" it will use way way way more battery than gmail pushing the same result.

Lennyuk said:
well actually it saves you battery, gmail checks the pop roughly every 10 minutes, and your phone will only do any work when a mail is there i.e. its pushed.
if you use a normal mail client your trying to "pull every 10 minutes" it will use way way way more battery than gmail pushing the same result.
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The checking time on Google's mail fetcher service is dynamic. If you generally only receive a few mails per day then it will only check a few times per day. In Google's own words,
"Gmail checks individual accounts for new messages at different rates, depending on previous mail fetch attempts. At this time you can’t customize the frequency of automatic mail fetches."
I use POP mail and don't find any great difference in battery drain with it on or off. I understand that this could be an issue for the more battery anal though. I think the real benefit of your method is bandwidth. Polling every 5 or 10 minutes can quickly eat in to a monthly data allowance. This is significant to those who only get a few MB every month. Going through Google's push mail service is a much more bandwidth efficient method.

Lennyuk said:
pop your accounts into your gmail account and have gmail push it all to you
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Yeah i have done that, and i hardly ever receive an email, before that i just check my yahoo.
I have downloaded k-9 mail, hope it does the job.

I never got on with K9 myself.
I get emails all the time with gmail handling all my accounts every 10-15 minutes, oh well each to their own.

Too bad I cannot POP my yahoo with gmail... the asia trick doesn't work anymore.
If anyone does have a method (not upgrading to mail plus ), please share it!

I just had a play with K9 and comparing it to Seven I was not impressed. Its push pull and when i delete a email on my phone it does that on my account too.
I can recommend

since yesterday i have not received a single mail on yahoo through k-9 mail, i think its just does not work, gmail app is wonderful, but transferring my yahoo on gmail doesn't work as well.

samy.3660 said:
since yesterday i have not received a single mail on yahoo through k-9 mail, i think its just does not work, gmail app is wonderful, but transferring my yahoo on gmail doesn't work as well.
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I just did some quick research on this. It looks like yahoo don't support standard IMAP IDLE. Instead they have their own custom Push IMAP protocol. You will have to use Yahoo's own mail client available from the market place to receive yahoo push email.

khr0n0s said:
I just did some quick research on this. It looks like yahoo don't support standard IMAP IDLE. Instead they have their own custom Push IMAP protocol. You will have to use Yahoo's own mail client available from the market place to receive yahoo push email.
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I don't think Yahoos Android client supports push either. I have a very seldom used Yahoo account which I set up on the device, and when I sent an email to it, the application took an age to pick it up.
Regards,
Dave

foxmeister said:
I don't think Yahoos Android client supports push either. I have a very seldom used Yahoo account which I set up on the device, and when I sent an email to it, the application took an age to pick it up.
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It sounds like yahoo mail really sucks. Gmail FTW

Gmail users...Gmail app or Stock email app?

Looking for your thoughts? Which is better on battery life utilizing push?

OmegaDog said:
Looking for your thoughts? Which is better on battery life utilizing push?
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I always wonder why people use the Gmail app. People must have more than one account. So why not use an unified inbox, so you can view all your emails in one place?

jhericurls said:
I always wonder why people use the Gmail app. People must have more than one account. So why not use an unified inbox, so you can view all your emails in one place?
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Personal preference. I like keeping my inboxes separate. Also, I'm fairly certain the stock email app doesn't handle Gmail-specific functions such as importance markers, priority inbox, and labels.

OmegaDog said:
Looking for your thoughts? Which is better on battery life utilizing push?
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Using Google and Gmail is less taxing on your battery. If you setup your Gmail account (on a computer from the Gmail inbox) to poll your other accounts, it will then push new emails to your phone. That means your phone is only active (in terms of getting emails) when a new email is being pushed to the phone verses the native email app that will poll your pop3 accounts on the frequency you select. It will do that polling whether there are new emails available on your server or not. Over at Android Central is an article titled "Using Gmail as your own personal push mail server". It explains exactly how to set this up.
I've been doing this for about two years now and love it. I think the Gmail is better than the native email app too.
Good luck.

Gmail app, hands down. You're going to miss so many functions compared to the basic email app.

I didn't even know there was a stock email app..

Gmail all the way.

Gmail of course. Never even touched the stock Email app on any phone I've had.

I'd only use the stock email app if I had to connect to an exchange server. Otherwise, Gmail can pull your email and label them - there is your unified inbox, with the best search in the world and many more features than the stock email app.

Gmail no doubt about it

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I'd only use the stock email app if I had to connect to an exchange server. Otherwise, Gmail can pull your email and label them - there is your unified inbox, with the best search in the world and many more features than the stock email app.
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I wish Google would put all of its efforts into just creating one amazing email app instead of two ok apps. I need Exchange support so I'm forced to use both apps and honestly, neither compares to the experience I had on Windows Phone... Search was much better and faster on Windows Phone as well. The main advantage to Gmail app is the labels function, after that the clients in Androids competitors win in speed, zoom and ability to change views like swipe to view all unread messages, and swipe again to view starred messages.

Stock Gmail preferred, but have to use both since Yahoo won't connect to Gmail unless you pay them a premium fee. Yahoo account is basically collecting spam and an occasional message from someone who hasn't updated their contact list in a while. And c2dm is more timely and battery efficient than scheduled polling and sync.
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hmm well I have been using the stock email app forever. Mainly because I needed exchange support, first for school and now for work. But I got tired of exchange hogging the battery so I just have all my emails forwarded now to my gmail account. Might have to give it a try.

Seeing as I only use Gmail on my phone the Gmail app does the job (and I delete the stock app as I never use it)

Lol I freeze the stock mail app first time I flash a rom
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Using both apps here.
Gmail app for my "real" email and stock for Yahoo and Exchange.

What's the stock email app?

Geezer Squid said:
Using Google and Gmail is less taxing on your battery. If you setup your Gmail account (on a computer from the Gmail inbox) to poll your other accounts, it will then push new emails to your phone. That means your phone is only active (in terms of getting emails) when a new email is being pushed to the phone verses the native email app that will poll your pop3 accounts on the frequency you select. It will do that polling whether there are new emails available on your server or not. Over at Android Central is an article titled "Using Gmail as your own personal push mail server". It explains exactly how to set this up.
I've been doing this for about two years now and love it. I think the Gmail is better than the native email app too.
Good luck.
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My god man. I never knew this.:laugh: Set this up in a matter of minutes. Thanks for this.:good:

Have you guys ever had a look at the gmail app for the iphone? It is gorgeous! And same functionality as well. Ours works very well but I would like to see a little UI overhaul
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jhericurls said:
I always wonder why people use the Gmail app. People must have more than one account. So why not use an unified inbox, so you can view all your emails in one place?
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I pull other accounts into my main Gmail account, so everything ends up there (e-mails from other accounts automatically get labeled accordingly), and I can access everything through the Gmail app on my phone.

Does the Galaxy S3 (I747) push email using IMAP?

Hello,
I am trying to find out a bit more about email push, IMAP and the S3.
Every time I setup my IMAP email accounts, the setup process asks what will the polling time be. Why would we have to set this up when IMAP works with push? We don't have to pull email... unless the S3 does not support push email...
Or, maybe I am setting it wrong?
I have 7 or 8 email addresses and all are going through GMAIL at the moment (setup as labels), and Gmail does a very good job pushing emails... but the back end still calls the email services through POP... so it's not really push at all... plus I can't add Yahoo to it.
Before anyone says "oh well, keep using the gmail app, then!", I am a firm believer in using stock apps first so that I don't have to add layer after layer of applications to do one single task... and if I have a stock email app, that's the one I want to use.
Thanks for your help!

Maildroid works very well in setting up email for push or pull email. No, it's not the stock app, but it will handle multiple email accounts with each account having it's own settings. One account doesn't have to have the same settings as the others.

mrhaley30705 said:
Maildroid works very well in setting up email for push or pull email. No, it's not the stock app, but it will handle multiple email accounts with each account having it's own settings. One account doesn't have to have the same settings as the others.
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Thank you, I will try it. I tried k9 but it looks outdated, and it makes a huge contrast with the S3 looks...

Does anyone have any news on this subject?
Push email was available on the native S2 email client.
I also vote for native apps first.
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The native email client does not support IMAP idle. It only offers interval polling. If you're on Exchange, push does work but only with the active sync protocol.

I gave it a try to exchange with my gmail account. It does push but it uses more data and more battery than on the S2 by keeping the phone awake 5min/8h, when it was less than 1min/8h.
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Gmail Push Notification

So I don't know if it's just my phone, but push notification of emails in Gmail does not work. There is not option in settings to have Push notification. It only lists never, every 15min, 30 min, hour, 4 hours, once a day... and even when I put it on every 15 minutes, it doesn't notify me when I have an email. I have to manually go in the Email app and refresh the email. My hotmail works great though and it has an option for Push. Did I set up the sync schedule wrong? I have peak schedule at every 15 min, off-peak at every 30 min, peak days selected for every day of the week, peak start time at 6:00am, peak end time at 2:00am and manual for while roaming. This is another concern of mine for this phone. My iphone did a great job of notifying me when emails came in.
Thanks!

Questions:
Under Settings -> Accounts and Sync ... Is sync set as on?
When you click on your gmail account name, it should give you a list of things to sync (mine has: calendar, contacts, gmail)
Is Gmail checked as on?

Rinwashere said:
Questions:
Under Settings -> Accounts and Sync ... Is sync set as on?
When you click on your gmail account name, it should give you a list of things to sync (mine has: calendar, contacts, gmail)
Is Gmail checked as on?
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I can't seem to find what you're talking about. I'm pretty new to android. Would you happen telling me what settings to go to? Device settings? Email settings? I'm using the email app for gmail, not the gmail app since I have more than I email address.
Thanks

You'll have to set up your Gmail as a separate "Exchange ActiveSync" account to get proper Push.

cryptoknight said:
You'll have to set up your Gmail as a separate "Exchange ActiveSync" account to get proper Push.
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That is so much better. Thank you so much!

Btw, you can use the Gmail app with multiple Gmail accounts. I use it for all of mine, and the email app for non-gmail accounts.
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