jimdroid
Android Expert
K-9 has an option to store messages in internal memory or on the SDCard. I'm not sure about Maildroid, haven't used it in a while.
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MailDroid vs. K-9 vs. Others?
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K-9 has an option to store messages in internal memory or on the SDCard. I'm not sure about Maildroid, haven't used it in a while.
dbpaddler
Android Expert
It's been awhile too, but I think the option is there. Maildroid also has the option to save email settings. Great if you flash a bit. I stopped using it when I kept getting these parsing errors for aol mail.
Seeing the dev's quote, he does have a paid "pro" version for $18. Shame because it only has a few thousand downloads compared to the 250k or so on the free one. Would love to see the pro drop to the $10 range. Would bet he'd get to the 10k mark then. I've been sticking with K9. But it doesn't push my yahoo mail. Have actually started using yahoo's mail app. Kinda nice except it won't batch delete. Still haven't found the perfect solution for all my webmail and exchange that does push and full folder support. Was playing around with a friend's ally and her stock mail couldn't even empty trash in mass.
Seeing the dev's quote, he does have a paid "pro" version for $18. Shame because it only has a few thousand downloads compared to the 250k or so on the free one. Would love to see the pro drop to the $10 range. Would bet he'd get to the 10k mark then. I've been sticking with K9. But it doesn't push my yahoo mail. Have actually started using yahoo's mail app. Kinda nice except it won't batch delete. Still haven't found the perfect solution for all my webmail and exchange that does push and full folder support. Was playing around with a friend's ally and her stock mail couldn't even empty trash in mass.
I might be willing to pay the $18 for MailDroid if it was better.
I find it frequently gets hosed where it says "the background process was killed". I don't have any task killers running, perhaps it is the Android 1.2 OS that is killing the process, perhaps the process isn't really being killed. Even if the process is being killed the UI portion of MailDroid should re-load the process and I would be OK with that. As it is now I have to reboot my device to get it working again. This happens about once every 1.5 days.
MailDroid notifies me when I have received a new email but it also notifies me when I've "read" an IMAP email via my PC mail client. This drives me crazy. Ideally MailDroid would remove the notification icon if all the new emails that triggered the notification have since been read. I have it set to "wake up every 15 minutes".
Please keep in mind the date on this message 7/20/2011 when considering the negative comments I've made above, perhaps these issues will have been fixed in MailDroid by the time you read this post. Check the release notes and please post back if you've found them to be fixed. Dates often unfairly punish and reward various people on the net.
I also use Touchdown for my Exchange email account and find it sufficiently good to be worth the $20 price. There is some small room for improvement here but it works very well.
I find it frequently gets hosed where it says "the background process was killed". I don't have any task killers running, perhaps it is the Android 1.2 OS that is killing the process, perhaps the process isn't really being killed. Even if the process is being killed the UI portion of MailDroid should re-load the process and I would be OK with that. As it is now I have to reboot my device to get it working again. This happens about once every 1.5 days.
MailDroid notifies me when I have received a new email but it also notifies me when I've "read" an IMAP email via my PC mail client. This drives me crazy. Ideally MailDroid would remove the notification icon if all the new emails that triggered the notification have since been read. I have it set to "wake up every 15 minutes".
Please keep in mind the date on this message 7/20/2011 when considering the negative comments I've made above, perhaps these issues will have been fixed in MailDroid by the time you read this post. Check the release notes and please post back if you've found them to be fixed. Dates often unfairly punish and reward various people on the net.
I also use Touchdown for my Exchange email account and find it sufficiently good to be worth the $20 price. There is some small room for improvement here but it works very well.
dbpaddler
Android Expert
you should take a look at enhanced email. I used to go back and forth between Maildroid and K9 while still using stock email for exchange. I now use Enhanced for all my email. It's one guy working his butt off, and he's done a pretty good job. He has a forum site for questions, problems and issues and is pretty active. He's got a trial version you can download on the site. Enhanced Email Forums. Trial copy can be found here. It's also only $10 to buy after the 7 day trial is over. Should be plenty of time to evaluate.
andyknights
Well-Known Member
With enhanced email you need to set it to check every x minutes don't you? Does this mean it doesn't support push properly like gmail does?
Also - it doesn't have conversation/threaded view either does it?
I don't think I want 'much' from my email client, but there must be a polished program out there that is more customisable than gmail, but works very similar to gmail....if not, why not?
Also - it doesn't have conversation/threaded view either does it?
I don't think I want 'much' from my email client, but there must be a polished program out there that is more customisable than gmail, but works very similar to gmail....if not, why not?
dbpaddler
Android Expert
Did you go to the forum and download the free version to check out?
It supports imap idle. Why would you assume it doesn't?
No clue about a threaded view because it's not important to me.
And you can only customize so much like gmail because not every email service supports the same thing. I just wish there was one stock app that supported push that didn't treat gmail like its own entity. It defeats the purpose of integration keeping gmail separate. And even if you can do more things in gmail, it doesn't mean other email can't be treated differently within the same app. Unless my other providers screw me, I'm not switching to gmail. I use gmail strictly for the market and that's it. Just give me one integrated app that supports push all around and gives me full folder support, and I'm happy.
It supports imap idle. Why would you assume it doesn't?
No clue about a threaded view because it's not important to me.
And you can only customize so much like gmail because not every email service supports the same thing. I just wish there was one stock app that supported push that didn't treat gmail like its own entity. It defeats the purpose of integration keeping gmail separate. And even if you can do more things in gmail, it doesn't mean other email can't be treated differently within the same app. Unless my other providers screw me, I'm not switching to gmail. I use gmail strictly for the market and that's it. Just give me one integrated app that supports push all around and gives me full folder support, and I'm happy.
andyknights
Well-Known Member
Sorry, not sure what IMAP idle is. I did dload it a few weeks ago and it seemed to have an option for 'update frequency' - having said that, I might be talking out of turn, and this was K-10/Kaiten that I tried - I've tried a couple lately and one of them did this. It may have been that enhanced email didn't support threaded view and that's what I'm after...
I quite like gmail and the associated app - but the issue I have with it is relatively minor but it still bugs me, I *just* want to be able to muck about with the way it looks in the inbox, to make it into a bit more like a Bberry experience - which is a good email device in my view.
dbpaddler
Android Expert
IMAP idle = push
I don't care for the bb experience. Webmail has zero functionality. Can't report spam. Can't move mail to folders. And for the longest time you didn't even have chat style texting. Unless you were on Exchange, the BB experience was quite lackluster. Maybe it's changed since I last used it, but for a mature OS it was inexcusable. And their SMS answer was to use BBM if you want chat style texting. Weak.
I don't care for the bb experience. Webmail has zero functionality. Can't report spam. Can't move mail to folders. And for the longest time you didn't even have chat style texting. Unless you were on Exchange, the BB experience was quite lackluster. Maybe it's changed since I last used it, but for a mature OS it was inexcusable. And their SMS answer was to use BBM if you want chat style texting. Weak.
andyknights
Well-Known Member
Sorry - yeah, it was my work email "phone" - didn't even have phone capabilities, just work email and it worked very well....
I have installed MailDroid and it is functioning, but it is doing something I cannot live with. It deletes emails from the server once retrieved. This prevents the emails from ever getting to my main computer, which is essential. I need to either find out how to disable the app from deleting the emails from the server or shut it down, but I need to recover the emails it already retreived before I can uninstall it.
Thanks for any info anyone can offer ...
I see that Joe Langley is the dev, and invites email inquiry's, but I do not see how to email him ....
John T
Thanks for any info anyone can offer ...
I see that Joe Langley is the dev, and invites email inquiry's, but I do not see how to email him ....
John T
dbpaddler
Android Expert
Once retrieved as in just loaded? That just seems odd. Never had that issue with aol, yahoo or exchange. Thought that was pretty basic in all of the apps. You had the option to delete it on the phone but not on the server. That's under synchronization preferences. But just by the app loading email? That would be a new one on me. I ditched Maildroid a bit ago. Went too Enhanced Email and have settled on Kaiten.
kennedymat
Lurker
I've tried to follow this thread, and it is a little out of date. But I'm wondering if MailDroid 2.5 supports leaving a message on the server while deleting it locally:
I installed Maildroic 2.5 today and I love it, except that there doesn't seem to be a way to delete messages from the client without deleting them from the server. I have read through these forums hoping that this feature has been added, but it doesn't seem to have happened yet. Can you confirm that it cannot be done at this time? Thanks!
I installed Maildroic 2.5 today and I love it, except that there doesn't seem to be a way to delete messages from the client without deleting them from the server. I have read through these forums hoping that this feature has been added, but it doesn't seem to have happened yet. Can you confirm that it cannot be done at this time? Thanks!
AngryHatter
Android Expert
Open Maildroid and then open an email account; then press the setting button.
Account Preferences/Delete Sync Options
In there you can set it to leave the email on the server while deleting it on your phone.
Joe - wish this could be a global setting so I wouldn't have to set it five times.
Account Preferences/Delete Sync Options
In there you can set it to leave the email on the server while deleting it on your phone.
Joe - wish this could be a global setting so I wouldn't have to set it five times.
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
About deleting off the phone - does the email stay on the server after you open it?
On windows - I have some mail set to delete from server when opened in Thunderbird.
Would this affect opening some mail on the phone? I don't like the email services web pages, and that includes Gmail. So I tend to most stuff in Thunderbird, either on Ubuntu or Windows.
I need the stuff to stay put on the server until I open it in Tbird.
I usually drag stuff to a local folder on the computer, and since I have Ubuntu, Windows and Android, it gets confusing. I have a few accounts - most to avoid spammers. I don't sync unless on command.
On windows - I have some mail set to delete from server when opened in Thunderbird.
Would this affect opening some mail on the phone? I don't like the email services web pages, and that includes Gmail. So I tend to most stuff in Thunderbird, either on Ubuntu or Windows.
I need the stuff to stay put on the server until I open it in Tbird.
I usually drag stuff to a local folder on the computer, and since I have Ubuntu, Windows and Android, it gets confusing. I have a few accounts - most to avoid spammers. I don't sync unless on command.