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Gmail app vs. HTC mail w/HTC sense
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Did you setup your accounts via the HTC Mail app or the Gmal app?
gobluejd
GOBLUE!
Nice! Can you accept invites from Exchange?
gobluejd
GOBLUE!
Also are your Contacts from Exchange merged into Gmails? I do not want them sync'ing back to Google. They need to stay seperate, but okay to view together in contacts on phone...
i get my incredible tomorrow. i have two email accounts. Gmail which is my main account. and a yahoo account. currently on my BB both have push enabled with seperate inboxes. I would like this current setup on the inc. I use the yahoo bb app for push delivery and it works fine. can i do this on the inc. thanks in advance.
dibs ODDJOB
Android Enthusiast
Looks like there isn't a consensus here. I like separate accounts for my email, so I will setup the primary gmail account with my personal account, and use HTC mail for my secondary gmail account, which I have checking my POP work email account. Or just use the HTC mail app to check the POP account directly. The problem with that is the POP account doesn't keep all messages like my gmail account does, which I need.
DroID RaGE
Member
How did you set up your e-mail ?
Geese1
Well-Known Member
Where I work our business uses a gmail domain for our email. By that I mean it doesn't end in @gmail.com, but it a gmail domain (looks and works exactly like gmail when you log in and is on the Google servers).
I'd really like to get push notifications for this, but I'm not sure how to set it up. One of the guys I work with has an Eris and he just set it up to use IMAP, but he isn't sure if this gives him true push notification.
So does anyone know how something like this would work?
I'd really like to get push notifications for this, but I'm not sure how to set it up. One of the guys I work with has an Eris and he just set it up to use IMAP, but he isn't sure if this gives him true push notification.
So does anyone know how something like this would work?
Mr. Spontaneous
Android Enthusiast
Here you go: Android - Gmail Help
See my earlier post in this thread. IMAP will not act as a "push" solution without IDLE support, which the Android mail app apparently does not have yet. Without IDLE, IMAP basically works the same as POP (you have to have it check for new mail every X minutes) with the added bonus of synchronizing all your mail folders (POP only does the Inbox).
Geese1
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the help, guys!
Looking at that link though, it almost sounds like that's what the guy I work with did to set up his phone, so I think it's just using IMAP and isn't true push notification. I guess I'll have to test it out once my Incredible comes in tomorrow.
I was hoping I could get true push notification since our mail is hosted by Google and it's important for me in my job to get my emails as quickly as possible. If that's not the case though, I'll just have to set it up to check for new messages every 5 minutes or so (which is how I currently have my Thunderbird client configured to run using POP).
I've realized using apple mail on my macbook, and htc mail, that if you set up your gmail with IMAP, and "delete" the email from your inbox in these clients (e.g. htc or apple mail), the email is removed only from the inbox, but remains in "all mail." Essentially, this behavior is equivalent to Archiving in gmail app.
Labels, push, are lacking though.
Interesting. For most things, I don't really need the push support, but this little snag with google apps not integrating well with the rest of sense is kind of annoying. The gmail app for one, but of particular interest to me, the google voice app. It's a shame that the sms that come in through google voice don't get counted as part of "messages" in sense, so, it's kind of like the lack of integration i experienced between the gmail app on blackberry and it's unified inbox.
Though, I thinking a quick fix would be to use the google voice feature to forward sms to an email address, and then link that forwarding address to the actual contact in People, but that would be infuriating =/
Geese1
Well-Known Member
Just a quick update: I was able to set up our Google Apps email with the phone and it's working fine.
What I did was during the initial set-up when it asks if you have a Google mail account I just answered yes and then when it asked me to sign in I just entered my full domain mail address (eg. yourname@mydomain.com) and then clicked on the password section and entered in my password. It took a few seconds to verify and then the set-up was complete.
It's great because now I get my work email pushed to my phone and I don't have to have it go out and search for new mail every 5 minutes or something.
Now I don't know if this would work if you went in to set-up a new Google Apps mail account after the initial set-up, but it does work if you choose it initially, at least.
What I did was during the initial set-up when it asks if you have a Google mail account I just answered yes and then when it asked me to sign in I just entered my full domain mail address (eg. yourname@mydomain.com) and then clicked on the password section and entered in my password. It took a few seconds to verify and then the set-up was complete.
It's great because now I get my work email pushed to my phone and I don't have to have it go out and search for new mail every 5 minutes or something.
Now I don't know if this would work if you went in to set-up a new Google Apps mail account after the initial set-up, but it does work if you choose it initially, at least.
Whippetcat
Lurker
I set up my mail with Gmail. How do I set up the HTC mail client at this point? Do I have to acquire the app from the "Market"?
jamor
Android Expert
I'm using the HTC mail app on my DI. I've got 6 different email accounts showing up there. (4 POP accounts, 1 Gmail account, and one exchange account I'm accessing through POP). Push email is no big deal to me. I can wait 15 minutes to have the device check for it. My main question is can I have all 6 accounts show up in the same inbox? I understood that the HTC app allowed you to integrate the accounts, but so far I have a drop down in the app to change from one account to the others. I'm coming from a BlackBerry Storm and really liked the way all my emails show up in one inbox, just like they do with Outlook on my PC. Any way to do that on my Incredible? I'm not interested in forwarding all my mail to gmail and doing it that way. Is there a way the HTC app can do this? If not, is there another email app that would support that? Thanks.
gobluejd
GOBLUE!
This is certainly not the case anymore. There is NO DIFFERENCE in email delivery, whether BES or BIS. Matter of fact the EXPERIENCE is much much better on a Android. I was a hardcore BB fanboy, not the case anymore. BB users can NOT use EMAIL as a key feature. It was true before, but not now.
There are 2 things that BB's have over Andorids now is SECURITY and DEPLOYMENT/MAINTENANCE, and that is not entirely true since HTC's Sync you can supposedly wipe remotely.
No more "Blackberry has better email" it simply is them not admitting there is something better.
I agree. I switched from BB to Incredible and think Android's email (at least on HTC, which has decent Exchange support) is essentially as good as BB's.
That being said, notification profiles on Android SUCK compared to BB, even with the various profile programs. To me, that is the only thing on Android that loses to BB.
gobluejd
GOBLUE!
Yep totally agree. I wrote about this on my newly started blog....You may enjoy since your coming from a BB.
Here is the post, please check out the other posts and lmk your thougts!
What’s driving me crazy!!!!! | Blackberry to Android
I just used the Google Voice App for handling Vmails and other activities for GVoice. Having Gvoice email/SMS you a message that you got a voicemail is uber redundant.
Download the Google Voice App in the Market. Use Gmail/HTC Mail for email and Messages/Handcent/Chomp for SMS.
YMMV