Emails always reload after opening

[fandroid18]

I don't know why but the emails on my s5 always load and as I scroll down a bit it reloads and jumps back to top to get all the images. It's annoying. Any fix?

 

[Rukbat]

A different email app - there are lots of them. (And after years of using email - since before MS-DOS days - I still haven't found one written by someone else that does exactly what I want. I don't think it's possible - the best you can do is get close.)

 

[SpookDroid]

Yup, that's because you're sent a message 'too long' or too 'heavy'. The app only downloads a portion of the e-mail and when you scroll down, it proceeds to download the rest of the message. However, you can change this. Buried in your e-mail app settings (look for the Sync settings) there should be a LIMIT RETRIEVAL SIZE option. The default, I believe, is 50KB (2KB while roaming). Change that to a higher value and voila!

 

[fandroid18]

Thanks so much spook I changed it to 50 and hopefully that's sufficient. Been driving me mad!

 

[SpookDroid]

Glad I could point you in the right direction. Just be careful with extra-long e-mails though (you know, those "Reply All" chains with 100 e-mails embedded in them), especially if you have a limited data plan.

 

[fandroid18]

Sadly it happened again and the email wasn't that long. I don't get anything crazy long. I'll try setting it to 100.

 

[SpookDroid]

You have to remember that by today's standards even 100kB is not that much. If it's just plain text then yeah, but if it's formatted text with an image as a signature, that can be larger.

In my case, as long as it's text, I don't seem to have too many issues with 50kB, but I do notice a few of my e-mails re-loading when I open them... It just didn't bother me, I guess.

 

[AZgl1500]

I have mine set to 1 mByte

I nearly always read email on WiFi so who cares.

The precious few times I look at email away from home is not enough to even worry about.

I have never had an email fail to open and stay open.