Type Mail Question

[ubizmo]

Yeah, I'm afraid that in the quest to find the Holy Grail of Battery Life, Google has landed Android in a cow pie. I can't see how this will stand for long. It handicaps Android email, alarms and who knows what else too much. The backlash will be too strong. But then again...

I have to wonder how this will affect AOSP installations with out GCM. Seems like Marshmallow will break email apps without providing any remedy for them. Perhaps this is Google's way to finally drive a stake through the heart of all those forked Android versions. They'll be stuck at Lollipop.

 

[Crashdamage]

Well, it's not THAT bad, at least not if I understand it correctly, which is this:

It will muck around with Push and other notifications, yes. But it won't actually break email clients, they just won't be able to ruin IMAP_IDLE or basically anything else while in Doze mode. If not Dozing, things work normally. In Doze, no, they will not work right.

BUT...there's supposed to be a whitelist exception feature. BUT...for some reason it doesn't quite work 100%, though I'm not sure yet what that means. The 100% fix for email is supposedly GCS and I agree with you, that sucks 100%. I just don't have any experience with all this yet. What I do know I certainly don't like.

I don't see how the Doze problem or any other changes to 6.0 will have a major impact on AOSP or custom ROMs. They can keep on doing what they do. Might be a bit more work, I suppose.



Android since v1.0. Linux since 2001

 

[BahnStormer77]

Does Aquamail allow "Exchange" server access via OWA scraping? Not the most battery-efficient, but it does work and it's the only way we can get work e-mail on Android devices.

 

[Crashdamage]

Sorry for the slow response.

AquaMail supports Exchange and Office 365 via IMAP and EWS. Since OWA is part of EWS I would guess it would do OWA scrape. But that's just a guess. Fortunately, I have no personal experience with Exchange.

You should get a better answer in the AquaMail user forum, very possibly from the developer himself.

http://www.aqua-mail.com/forum

 

[Mark Lans]

In one word - Typemail !
In a few more: being a programmer myself, it is very easy for me to spot apps that are well thought out and well written.
I’ve tried many email apps (K9, Aqua, CM...) Typemail blows the rest out of the water!
It syncs fast and is easy to use, spam control, clusters, dark theme, colors theme, Exchange, pop3 - just name it's and it's there.
those guys made an amazing job with this free app.
Highly recommended !

 

[Crashdamage]

Unfortunately, TypeMail is a web-based client, meaning that they download your email to their servers (actually, in this case not even TypeMail's servers, they contract that out to Amazon Web Services) for distribution rather than letting the email client download/upload directly from your email service's servers. TypeMail has other security concerns also. I know I posted this link before in this thread, but I 'm gonna do it again because I think it's that important. Please, read this for more details:

http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/7051405

Take a longer look at AquaMail. It's pretty obvious that I'm a huge fan. I'm just really impressed by it. IMHO not jut the best general-purpose email client available, it's one of the best apps of any kind for Anddroid. It's extremely configurable, with a terrific UI, very fast, cleanly coded with the result being an amazingly small size .apk for all the features included. And it's very secure. Read the AquaMail Privacy statement linked in the post linked above.

 

[Sean Cogan]

Unfortunately, TypeMail is a web-based client, meaning that they download your email to their servers (actually, in this case not even TypeMail's servers, they contract that out to Amazon Web Services) for distribution rather than letting the email client download/upload directly from your email service's servers. TypeMail has other security concerns also. I know I posted this link before in this thread, but I 'm gonna do it again because I think it's that important. Please, read this for more details:

http://androidforums.com/index.php?posts/7051405

Take a longer look at AquaMail. It's pretty obvious that I'm a huge fan. I'm just really impressed by it. IMHO not jut the best general-purpose email client available, it's one of the best apps of any kind for Anddroid. It's extremely configurable, with a terrific UI, very fast, cleanly coded with the result being an amazingly small size .apk for all the features included. And it's very secure. Read the AquaMail Privacy statement linked in the post linked above.

Point taken. Thanks Hillary!

 

[Crashdamage]

Point taken. Thanks Hillary!

You're welcome, Donald!

 

[Sean Cogan]

You're welcome, Donald!

LOL!

 

[Uday M]

TypeMail is really nice.
One problem with it is; it doesn't have integration with any of the Calendar apps(including Google Calendar). So, when I have configured my official mail account in TypeMail, I tend to miss some of the official meetings!!

Any other better alternative app which wouldn't disable 'Smart Lock' features on Android phone and also have integration with Google Calendar

 

[doogald]

The gmail app can now do imap and pop mail accounts - it's not just for gmail.

 

[Sanjay Mediratta]

In one word - Typemail !
In a few more: being a programmer myself, it is very easy for me to spot apps that are well thought out and well written.
I’ve tried many email apps (K9, Aqua, CM...) Typemail blows the rest out of the water!
It syncs fast and is easy to use, spam control, clusters, dark theme, colors theme, Exchange, pop3 - just name it's and it's there.
those guys made an amazing job with this free app.
Highly recommended !

TypeApp - not downloading email automatically for the last few days - anyone else have the same issue?

 

[Sean Cogan]

No problems here. Did you check your settings to ensure that you didn't somehow lose your "push" setting?

 

[speedlever]

Apologies for the old thread resurrection.

Does Type mail = TypeApp = Bluemail?

I was doing a little research on unified email clients and stumbled across this info:
Why I Stopped Using Blue Mail (Type Mail) ·

Being 2 to 3 years old, it may well be out of date. Anyone know?