K9 Email questions

1. expunge doesn't seem to do anything on gmail accounts. Not sure if it works on other types



2. polling usually clears this for me.


3. long touch message, select move and then select the folder you want to move it to.

 

Move may (1) only be in the newer (27xx) versions or (2) may only work on IMAP accounts. I just double checked and it worked for me. But, I am using 2707 with IMAP accounts.

Expunge is indeed only for IMAP (but it still doesn't seem to override Gmail's IMAP settings).

The Unread counter can be a tough one to trace down. I have had a few times where messages on the server were stuck as unread (but not in the INBOX any longer). And I have had the case that you described where deleting and recreating the account was the only way to make it go away.

 

This is really annoying. If I move messages on an IMAP account, they are moved in K-9, but not on the Server; K-9 gives no warning or error message in this case. There's no "rebuild index" in K-9. Do I really have to delete and recreate the whole account every time I log in? This really a showstopper. The authors of K-9 should remove the "Move to other folder" option is it messes up synchronity with the server.
However, still better than the preinstalled mail app which crashes with every 2nd e-mail.
Anybody out there knowing of a working IMAP client? I will pay €20 to the first one giving me a hint.

Milestone, Android 2.1

 

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if I move a message using K9, it moves on the server.

I just had a message in inbox, I moved it to a folder I have called "car" and just when on my desktop program and the folder was no longer in inbox, but now was in car.

Is that not what you are talking about?

What I don't like is that the message is also retained locally in the "car" folder. So, my "car" folder on K9 only has messages I moved into it from K9 and my "car" folder in my desktop client has all messages in "car" the "car" folder.

 

This function works fine. I use it daily.



My "guess" is that there is a problem/incompatibility with your IMAP server.



What service are you using?

 

I don't quite follow this one, but (1) no messages are stored locally, the "header" may still be there, but there shouldn't be any local messages and (2) you may need to refresh the local folders to see changes

 

Ok, maybe it's just the header that's there. Still, I'd rather that not show since I only sync my inbox. I really only want to "see" messages that are in my inbox.

Not that big of a deal really, especially, if it's not taking up much same.

Same thing with deleting messages. I have a long list of messages in my trash in K9. If I empty the trash in K9, it empties the server trash, which I don't necessarily want to do.

I'd love a "delete off device only" option. I think that'd let me help keep things cleaner.

 

I tried moved the mails with K9 from one IMAP folder on the server to another; in K9 the operation appeared to be successful, the mails were visible in the other IMAP folder; however, they were not moved when I looked from another client from a PC, or through webmail, on the same IMAP folder. I think that the "header cache" of K9 was out of sync. The refresh changed nothing.
My mailserver is imap.univie.ac.at

 

I think something in the latest version of K9 is having issues w/ IMAP folders. I've noticed that when I delete an email it's staying in the inbox, but when I go look in the trash it is there also, but it's still tagged as being in the inbox also. For some reason K9 isn't archiving the email's correctly. This was working just fine till the latest update.