Former webos users - what email app?

[jimijames]

First off, I love my nexus and I'm glad I switched... however, one area where I find myself disappointed is the email apps. I have google, yahoo, and comcast emails that I am trying to setup. In webos, it was easy - enter user name and password, set it to get emails as they arrive (google and yahoo) and I was done. Once setup google and yahoo were pushing emails to my phone and HTML emails were easily handled with zooming and proper formatting... these are my 2 biggest gripes with Android email: push and HTML formatting.

Here is what I have tried:
1) gmail app - pros: threaded views, push (gmail only). cons: gmail only, no zooming with HTML emails
2) stock email app - pros: able to setup all 3 email accounts. cons: no zoom and no push
3) maildroid - pros: ability to zoom and push capable. cons - did not like the layout, laggy, ads
4) K-9 - pros: zoom, push capable, free. cons - pushing of yahoo account does not work, documentation

I know that google wants me to pull all my yahoo and comcast email into gmail and then use the gmail app, but that's not the way I want to work. And why can't google figure out something as basic as HTML email formatting?

What do you use for email and does it address my 2 gripes? I singled out former webos users since the webos email app worked flawlessly, but everyone is free to answer

 

[_DammitMan_]

I'm a former webOS user as well. However, I only use GMail. That being said, the e-mail app I use is "Enhanced Email" by Quantum Solutions. I've been using it for a few weeks and it works very nicely and will work with multiple accounts.

 

[jtexans]

Try K-9 email...

 

[8616v]

You could try an ICS ROM. The email app in ICS is better....still doesn't push though I don't think

Sent from my Ice Cream Sandwich

 

[chud]

Try K-9 email...

You could try an ICS ROM. The email app in ICS is better....still doesn't push though I don't think

Sent from my Ice Cream Sandwich

wow

 

[oversteer325]

You can also try setting up GMail and Yahoo as an exchange activesync account to get push support in mail clients that don't provide the default option. Do a google search to get the settings to accomplish this.

 

[Skunkape60]

I just setup all my other email to forward mail to my gmail account. I know you said you didn't want to do it that way but you can make multiple gmail accounts for each of the other accounts. That way they are still separated.

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[8616v]

wow

wow



....see I can quote and just say wow too...

 

[chud]

wow



....see I can quote and just say wow too...

reported

 

[kuoirad]

This won't really help you, but for a data point, I'm a webOS refugee and K-9 user myself. I don't use push, and my two accounts are both regular IMAP, unix-based. K-9 has some annoyances for me, mainly UI-based, but it works for the way I use it.

 

[jimijames]

I just setup all my other email to forward mail to my gmail account. I know you said you didn't want to do it that way but you can make multiple gmail accounts for each of the other accounts. That way they are still separated.

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Hmm, interesting... I didn't think of multiple gmail accounts. Might have to look into this.

 

[DeathsArrow]

You could forward everything to Gmail and then use labels to identify which account the messages came from.

 

[Puzzlegal]

This won't really help you, but for a data point, I'm a webOS refugee and K-9 user myself. I don't use push, and my two accounts are both regular IMAP, unix-based. K-9 has some annoyances for me, mainly UI-based, but it works for the way I use it.

This is what I do, too. I have three accounts, one IMAP, one POP3, and one Gmail. I'm quite happy with K-9 now that I've "moved in". It did take a bit of work to get everything set up the way I wanted, though.

 

[Skunkape60]

This is what I do, too. I have three accounts, one IMAP, one POP3, and one Gmail. I'm quite happy with K-9 now that I've "moved in". It did take a bit of work to get everything set up the way I wanted, though.

I never had much luck with k-9 mail. I would often go all day without a message. Go home to my computer and find 20 messages. Forward the mail to my gmail and I will get the mail delivered within 5 seconds of the server receiving it.

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[iBowToAndroid]

First off, I love my nexus and I'm glad I switched... however, one area where I find myself disappointed is the email apps. I have google, yahoo, and comcast emails that I am trying to setup. In webos, it was easy - enter user name and password, set it to get emails as they arrive (google and yahoo) and I was done. Once setup google and yahoo were pushing emails to my phone and HTML emails were easily handled with zooming and proper formatting... these are my 2 biggest gripes with Android email: push and HTML formatting.

Here is what I have tried:
1) gmail app - pros: threaded views, push (gmail only). cons: gmail only, no zooming with HTML emails
2) stock email app - pros: able to setup all 3 email accounts. cons: no zoom and no push
3) maildroid - pros: ability to zoom and push capable. cons - did not like the layout, laggy, ads
4) K-9 - pros: zoom, push capable, free. cons - pushing of yahoo account does not work, documentation

I know that google wants me to pull all my yahoo and comcast email into gmail and then use the gmail app, but that's not the way I want to work. And why can't google figure out something as basic as HTML email formatting?

What do you use for email and does it address my 2 gripes? I singled out former webos users since the webos email app worked flawlessly, but everyone is free to answer

The official Yahoo app in the Market works well for Yahoo - push, syncing of all folders, contacts if you want them, etc. 3 email accounts is a pain though - I find myself annoyed with just 2. Any way to eliminate the Comcast, or the Yahoo if you really can't part with Comcast?

 

[Puzzlegal]

How is 3 email accounts a pain? I have three, and it's never caused me any trouble at all.

 

[Puzzlegal]

I never had much luck with k-9 mail. I would often go all day without a message. Go home to my computer and find 20 messages. Forward the mail to my gmail and I will get the mail delivered within 5 seconds of the server receiving it.

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Was it set to sync? I intentionally set the gmail account to only sync manually, so I only get gmail about once a day on the gadget. The others are set to sync regularly.

One thing I like about k9 is that it gives feedback when it is syncing, so I can tell by watching the notification bar whether it is working. On rare occasions it stops working, and I kill it and restart it, and then it works again. I get a lot of mail, so if I haven't gotten anything new in a couple of hours I assume there's a problem and check it. I typically go for a few weeks between having to restart K9.

 

[Skunkape60]

Was it set to sync? I intentionally set the gmail account to only sync manually, so I only get gmail about once a day on the gadget. The others are set to sync regularly.

One thing I like about k9 is that it gives feedback when it is syncing, so I can tell by watching the notification bar whether it is working. On rare occasions it stops working, and I kill it and restart it, and then it works again. I get a lot of mail, so if I haven't gotten anything new in a couple of hours I assume there's a problem and check it. I typically go for a few weeks between having to restart K9.

Absolutely was set to sync. I tried it for almost for two weeks on my Epic. After several email discussions with the Dev, I gave up on it and just setup all my pop and smtp accounts to forward my mail to my gmail account and never had a.problem again.

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[jimijames]

So I think I've settled on a setup with K-9...first, K-9 does a good job with pinch to zoom and handles google push email just fine. As for yahoo, I've decided just to poll every few hours. I guess I really don't need my emails as they arrive...I think I was making too big a deal of this - darn instant gratification culture we live in

 

[Puzzlegal]

I set one of my accounts to poll every 10 minutes.