Why is the email feature so worthless?

[ST1NG3R]

The email alerts are awful on my Droid. The alerts never come up when I get new emails and then sometimes it will randomly give me multiple alerts about old mail I've read on my computer days ago... Is there something I'm missing here like a feature that needs to be turned on in order for it to alert me exactly when I get new emails? The email is really pointless and checking it through my browser is more effective. Maybe the problem is that I'm using Hotmail?

 

[MrCapcom]

I had slight problems with hotmail but you gotta remember that hotmail has its weird settings and we are on a google phone.

I personally just had gmail check my hotmial like a email client thru pop and have it copy and delete the messages from my hotmail. I rarely go to my hotmail and gmail and the DROID has labels on which email came from where

 

[Mateles]

I've got all of my email accounts going to 1 gmail account, and I don't have any issues with email on my Droid. Filters and labels are your friends.

 

[Speeding Wheels]

gmail from 2 accts works flawlessly on my Droid

 

[BayouFlyFisher]

I use K-9 for my pop3 accounts and Gmail for my, well, Gemail account. No problems with mail retrieval or notifications.

 

[hookbill]

Try this. Turn the sync on your gmail to off. Then on your email setting set it to check every 5 minutes. That should eliminate double notification.

 

[Matth3w]

I've got similar issues.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/te...tions/17369-imap-ssl-email-doesnt-update.html

 

[justbob]

I've found that the e-mail app gets confused when switching from 3G to Wi-Fi and vice versa. Killing and restarting the app seems to make things right again.

 

[JGard]

I'm running GMail and then we have hosted Exchange for work, so I use the corporate email as well. I've not experienced any of the issues you've mentioned in your post.

It's likely a hotmail thing...dump it for Gmail already, will ya?

 

[gentlefury]

I've got all of my email accounts going to 1 gmail account, and I don't have any issues with email on my Droid. Filters and labels are your friends.

Same, I have about 12 email accounts that forward to gmail, I get them on my phone before my browser.

Why would you get a google phone and not use google mail? Seems like you should assume gmail would be more optimized.