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Help Email Issues (Help a Blackberry Convert)

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John060675

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Ok, so I made the switch from a Blackberry Bold to an Android Bionic. So far I have been impressed. I am finding one issue though, which I hope you all will help me with.

On my Blackberry I had a message icon that showed when I had an email in any one of my numerous email accounts. When I clicked on the icon it showed all of my emails that I had received, no matter which account it came from. Does Android Bionic offer this same feature? And if so, how do I set this up?

Thank you very much.
 
Thank you for the head's up. I am not sure though if it is a general Android question or a Bionic question. There just has to be a way to seeing all your emails under one button, like my Blackberry did.

Thanks.
 
I can relate to your question. Basically it was the "messages" icon that consolidated all of your inbox emails.

I'm not sure of the answer however. Hopefully someone will know. There may be a third party app that you would download that would do what you want. You may could try looking around the Market and also on AppBrain.
 
The easiest solution i can think of is to forward all your emails to gmail and then you can use gmail to respond as if from any of the individual emails.
 
i had a storm2 so im feeling the lack of push pain.

the drop down menu on the home screen will highlight which acct it is from. so if you get 4 emails and pull down the menu,, it will say 2 from gmail and 2 from yahoo or whatever you are using.
 
I have 9 separate accounts from several different domains set up in K-9 Mail, and it allows me a unified inbox. It does give me separate icons for each account in the notification bar, but I can ignore them and go directly to the app to see them all together.

Not sure why you're missing Push; all of my accounts are set up as imap and it works fine--unless I misunderstood your question.

So...maybe you need to meet your need with a third-party app? It's possible the native email app allows it too; don't know because I don't use it. :)
 
i have a pop3 and a web mail that is set as a pop3. both can not be used as push as per this phone.
 
What you can do is have Gmail check your pop3 emails for you, and push them to your phone.

So essentially you will have only ONE email account on your phone (your main Gmail account) and use the built in Gmail app for everything.

Here is how to set it up:

Get mail from other accounts - Gmail Help

You need to do this through a real web browser and login to your Gmail account. I'm not sure if you get the mail fetch configuration screen over the phones browser.

Googles servers will go out and check your pop3 mail for you, and push anything to your main Gmail account on your phone.

You can reply and send emails, and make it look like it's coming from any of the email addresses you configured.

This will save some battery juice too, because you won't have the stock pop3 Email app or K9 app polling all the time, wasting battery. Just the single Gmail account in sync with Google.

It's not true instant push, but Google checks the pop3s on a pretty quick interval, and sometimes it's only a couple seconds before it comes to your phone, and almost looks instant. Let Google do the work.

-droidosis-
 
I use the stock Email app for my corporate mail account, and I use K-9 Mail for all of my personal mail accounts. I like the separation of work and personal accounts. But K-9 will do what you want to do ... and do it way mo' bettah than the stock email app will.
 
messenger13 said:
I use the stock Email app for my corporate mail account, and I use K-9 Mail for all of my personal mail accounts. I like the separation of work and personal accounts. But K-9 will do what you want to do ... and do it way mo' bettah than the stock email app will.
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i tried k9 and it didnt push for me. and i was still getting email through my other clients. so i guess fetching every 15 will have to do
 
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