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K-9 Mail: This is the email application you need!!

Supatramp said:
Well there you go, you and others think it's rubbish, and aren't slow to deride it.

But at the same time, I and others think it's perfectly ok and surprise surprise, we have the right to say so too!

It's what's known as freedom of speech, and it's only right that those looking here should get a balanced view.
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I have no problem with you or others saying they like it. That's your opinion, and I respect that. I'm simply sharing my opinion, along with the opinions of others to whom I recommended this app. I see, though, that many of their sentiments and my sentiments are shared by others here.
 
mpw said:
K-9 was added to my phone by our IT dept., and while it works 'okay', it is very complicated, or at least not at all intuitive, and that's the opinion of a couple of IT pros not just me.
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An opinion I and my 2 IT buddies hold as well.

lunatic59 said:
As an IT professional, I can say that I tried K-9 and didn't like it for my needs. But many people find it to be the best mobile email replacement available. Having the option to use it or not use it is the great thing about Android and the choices it gives us. While we continue to discuss the pros and cons of K-9 let's not forget to attack the issues and not each other.

Keep it friendly, folks!
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I am definitely for LOTS of options, which is why I like Android. Even the existence of iPhone is an example of options we all have. However, give me Android, its ability to root, and the numerous different Android phones any day. Having so many options affords people the ability to realize some apps are great, while others are not as good as they're put up to be.
 
I installed K9 recently, and love its functionality. I've realized though that PUSH email tends to consume a lot of battery. Is this typical for all users? It's one of the apps that wakes my phone up a lot if it's idling.

Am curious about other users?

thanks
 
Let's see...


  • Multiple folder "classes" that are confusing and unorganized
  • Difficulty in mass deleting Emails
  • Deleted Emails reappearing
  • Difficulty in seeing all Emails instantly in one location
  • Not showing HTML properly
Each of the above I EASILY was able to accomplish with my EVO's stock Email program. No Email app yet has allowed me to do with ease what my stock Email has allowed me to do. Too bad, too.


I shouldn't feel like I've just run a marathon when using an Email app. With K9, I felt just this way--mentally exhausted. I really WANTED to like K9. I tried it more than once, each time uninstalling it completely, hoping that a couple months later its developers would make it more user friendly; they didn't. I finally gave up when even my friends to whom I had recommended this were bitching at me because of its unnecessarily complicated structure.
 
It has been a while since that last post of mine. They must have redesigned or greatly improved the app, because since then, I gave it another try and am pleased with it.

If I can only figure out why, though, when I click on a hyperlink in an Email, I get an IMMEDIATE "this page cannot be displayed" message. I have to long press the link that is still present in that message response, then I have a box that pops up with three options, the first of which is "open for viewing."
 
Reocyx said:
Is the name a dr. Who reference?
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Here's their icon, so I'd say yes.

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Lord Vader said:
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That's the Doctor's dog -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSoC1VUdavE


PS - the first ever alert for email was an app written for unix systems running X Windows, called biff. It was a little mailbox that raised its flag when you had new mail. The dev named it after her dog, Biff, who barked whenever the mail carrier came around.

Famous dogs have been a mainstay of email practically from the start.
 
I've just moved across to a Samsung Note II (N2) from a Blackberry (BB).

The most disappointing thing I have found is the email program on the N2. Btw, I'm a full business user (not IT).

Blackberry had a deal with Telstra where all the emails I received at my Telstra Bigpond mail server were fwd to the BB mail servers. Then my BB would easily download them into its mail app. My Outlook 2010 could then delete the emails after Popping from my Bigpond mail account but it didn't matter - I was always going to get a copy on my BB. Admitted this was a nasty $30/month charge added to my invoice for the "Blackberry service" but it worked.

Now I'm stuck because even with K9 Email, as soon as Outlook deletes the emails of the Bigpond mail server K9 cant get them. Now I hear you say "in Outlook change the setting not to delete them off the Server after Popping" ......but alas, you cant do that. Why? Well, you cant leave them on there because something is wrong with the Telstra Bigpond mail server and every couple of hours it thinks I haven't received the emails sitting in the Bigpond Inbox so when you click Send/Receive in Outlook it downloads every one again. Yesterday I got my Inbox downloaded 3 times (each time 56MB).

So of course you have to go into View in Outlook, change the view just unread emails and delete them .... painful.

So, that's my beef ..... what to do eh?

Oh and by the way, if you delete the emails eventually off the Bigpond mail server they are not longer "visible" in K9 .... with my BB they stayed there until you deleted them. I suppose I could fwd my Bigpond emails to Gmail then get my NII to pop the Gmail mail account instead of Bigpond and just leave Bigpond for Outlook to sync to but its getting messy.

Sorry if this all sounds too difficult but Id really like some advice (as would Im sure the 1,000's of BB users considering the switch.
 
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