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gmail or mail app?

Not sure ... one thing i did notice the other day though was that one of the apps (can't remember which) when it came to sending something it looked for a mail account within the android system and had no way of linking to the gmail app to send.

Because of this i now have them set up on both but have teh IMAP set to not update. This means its there for me to send if need be but all my normal checking and management i do through the Gmail app.
 
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Funny you should ask! I was just wondering this myself, last night. To find out, I decided to run them side-by-side with the same gmail account installed, both as push mail. The gmail app works extremely well, and I get notifications instantly, but I wanted the extended functionality of the mail app. I will post back in a day or so whether the mail app gets notifications as quickly as the gmail app, which was my primary concern. Coming from WinMo, i can tell you that the exchange connectivity to Google can be a PITA. I hope the big G gives preference to their own operating system! Either way, the mail app has more desktop-email-clienty features, like copy and paste from messages, and the gmail app has more gmail-specific features, like label-handling and stars. Otherwise, it's just a matter of preference. Neither is perfect. i may end up running both, one as push mail and one set to manually check mail, if I need the features.
 
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Gmail notifications are right on target as far as I can tell. I'm still trying to get the built-in mail program to work correctly. The notification will work for a few hours and then stop working until I restart the phone. I have to do this on a consistent basis. I would love to get this mail program working as it is suppose to as I have multiple email addresses to deal with. Hoping that HTC provides an update to the problem.
 
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I don't see that setting in the Gmail settings unless its under general settings, and that is turned on yes.

ah hmm... and you have google set to sync gmail under manage accounts in the sync settings? the only other thing i've heard is that stopping the gtalk service can interfere with gmail push, but i'm not sure about that. maybe just switch to k-9 :p that pushes just as fast
 
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ah hmm... and you have google set to sync gmail under manage accounts in the sync settings? the only other thing i've heard is that stopping the gtalk service can interfere with gmail push, but i'm not sure about that. maybe just switch to k-9 :p that pushes just as fast

I'm going to try re-adding the account. Maybe you can't use one account in both apps?
 
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i use gmail and like it so far.

only problem how do you make it so when i delete messages on EVO they don't delete from browser gmail account. i deleted over 200 messages when i first setup the EVO w/o realizing I was deleting them from my account not just EVO.

i don't see anything in settings to change this....help please?
 
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i use gmail and like it so far.

only problem how do you make it so when i delete messages on EVO they don't delete from browser gmail account. i deleted over 200 messages when i first setup the EVO w/o realizing I was deleting them from my account not just EVO.

i don't see anything in settings to change this....help please?

You actually cannot, AFAIK. The app acts just like the browser. Maybe you can work something out with labels such that all incoming messages get a Phone label, you only view messages labeled Phone on your phone, and remove the label when you want the message not to appear on the phone.
 
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You actually cannot, AFAIK. The app acts just like the browser. Maybe you can work something out with labels such that all incoming messages get a Phone label, you only view messages labeled Phone on your phone, and remove the label when you want the message not to appear on the phone.

damn that sucks. what does AFAIK mean? hard to believe i can't do this since i was able to on my centro that had before i got the evo. i will try labels, but still feel like there should be a setting to correct this problem.
 
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damn that sucks. what does AFAIK mean? hard to believe i can't do this since i was able to on my centro that had before i got the evo. i will try labels, but still feel like there should be a setting to correct this problem.

It's not really a problem per se; it's just giving you the same Gmail interface you know and love from the web browser. I prefer having my deletions happen throughout.

It actually sounds like what you want is more like POP3, when all you do is download the messages, and not a full sync with the server. POP3 (in the Mail application in Android) will not sync your deletions.

Hope this helps. (size pertains to importance...)
 
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