K9 E-mail question

[BigknockHawk]

I used to have a Blackberry and with the settings for my e-mail on it, I had to set things up at my server to leave all e-mails on the server, even after they were sent to my BB. Does this setting also need to be in place with K9 e-mail?

Let me qualify this by saying I want to receive all of my e-mails on my Android through K9, but I also want those same e-mails to be able to be sent to my home PC e-mail (Outlook) so I have them there as well.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[garywak]

Hi

I use k9 on my Desire. I have found that if you don't delete through k9 the message is available elsewhere. Hope this helps

Gary

 

[kmf]

In K9: when you have one of your accounts open: menu>more>settings>account settings>fetching mail>when I delete a message

You have three choices: one of which is: Do not delete on server

Make sure you have that choice enabled for each account if you want to read your emails at home/office/etc.

 

[BigknockHawk]

In K9: when you have one of your accounts open: menu>more>settings>account settings>fetching mail>when I delete a message

You have three choices: one of which is: Do not delete on server

Make sure you have that choice enabled for each account if you want to read your emails at home/office/etc.

Thank you. That is helpful, but I guess I need to know if I also need to have the settings at my server to leave the e-mails there once they have been retrieved by either my phone or home e-mail. I had to set things up at the server level to leave thm there when I had my BB. Does it still need to be that way now?

I guess the scenario would be that if I did not have it set, at the server level, to leave the e-mails on the server, once my home computer retrieved them, they would no longer be on the server and would not be delivered to my phone, or vice versa.

In order to ensure that BOTH my phone and home PC get them, do I need to leave the setting at the server to leave them there until I manually delete them from the server?

I hope that made sense.

 

[kmf]

I would say that if you have done nothing more (than change phones) your server settings would remain the same. You are just asking a different phone to receive the same messages that are already going to your internet provider's server...right? You can call your IP to confirm this.

 

[takeshi]

Email questions of this sort are difficult to answer without details regarding the email account. "Outlook" doesn't really tell us anything as it supports many types of email accounts, from Exchange to IMAP to POP to others I can't recall off the top of my head.

Generally, you only have to leave mail on the server for POP accounts since email clients (the email app on your device, Outlook and any other email software used to access email for that account) can't retrieve email from the POP server if it isn't on the server to begin with. IMAP, Exchange and possibly some other types of email accounts always have email residing on the server so your question isn't relevant to such accounts.

It's not a question of the email app you're using on the device or the device itself. It's a question of the type of email account you're using.

In order to ensure that BOTH my phone and home PC get them, do I need to leave the setting at the server to leave them there until I manually delete them from the server?

"Leave for X days on the server before deleting" may also work if you're certain that all your email clients will be able to download email within that X timeframe that you specify.

 

[kmf]

Further, I am using K9 (w/2 accounts) and delete mail all the time on my phone, and the messages are always still on my IP server. Hope this helps.

 

[Darkseas]

In order to ensure that BOTH my phone and home PC get them, do I need to leave the setting at the server to leave them there until I manually delete them from the server?

I hope that made sense.

Not really. AFIK, unless you are running your own mail server, you can't change the settings on the server that your ISP runs. If your place of work runs its own mail server, it can change settings on that server.

You can only change the settings on your own mail client -- that is, the mail program you run on your PC and the mail program you run on the phone.

As I understand what you want to do, you want all e-mail to go to both your PC and your phone. To ensure that happens, neither mail program can allow the mail server to delete a message when it's downloaded.

Takeshi and KMF pretty much told you what settings you need to use in K9.

For example, in the Mozilla Thunderbird program, you'd want to set

(X) Leave messages on server

to

(X) Until I delete them.

Then you have to decide if you want to delete messages ONLY on your PC or ONLY on your phone. Of course if you know you don't want to save a message, you'll have to delete it both places to clear it from the mail program, although the first delete will clear it from the server.

If you're sure you'll know when a message has been downloaded by both mail programs, you can delete it on either. But how can you, really? However, if you're sure you don't want to save a message, you can delete it on either program, and it won't matter if the other program doesn't download it.