Email issues

[lowtech]

My Droid keep downloading e-mais over and over and over and over again. I read some of my e-mails on my PC so do not need to read them again on my Droid. I select them and mark them as read but they keep going back to the unread status the next time the e-mail gets checked. Which it will not do every 15 minutes like I have selected it to do. It only checks it when I go to the account(s) I have 1 google account and 2 POP3 accounts. Please Help!!!!!!

Your problem is the POP accounts. POP3 does not support message status tags (like if a message is read or unread) so marking a message as read won't mean anything to your mail server and you will have to mark each message as read on each device/client you use to access those accounts.

If you follow the previous poster's advice your Droid will remove those messages everytime it checks your mail server and any other clients/devices you use to access that account won't get those messages and there will be no copy on the mail server.

The best thing to do in my view is (if possible) change/upgrade those accounts to IMAP. IMAP supports message status and should prevent duplication of messages.

It will if you delete them from the phone... not if you leave them in your Inbox. However, Imap should work better for in your case...!

 

[ny81him]

Email Pop3 Issues

Dgodfrey,

Have you heard back on this? Have you worked it out for the Pop3 to work using just the drods email program? I am getting the same delay and having it to force quit. There are other users in our office that are having the same issues as well.

We love the phone, but can not use if it does not work easily with email!

Let me know if you found a solution.

Thanks

My email was working flawlessly for about a week, but tonight it started crashing each time I tried to open an email. I get an error message, that leaves me only with the option to force close.

The confusing thing is that I am still linked to the server. I get new email titles -- I just can't open them without getting the errort message "Sorry! The application Email (processcom.android.email) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again....Force Close"

Has anyone else dealt with this? Is the problem with my email application or with my server?

Thanks,
dgodfrey

 

[nite 0wl]

It will if you delete them from the phone... not if you leave them in your Inbox. However, Imap should work better for in your case...!

Unless specifically configured not to do so POP operates by moving the message(s) from the server to the client everytime the client checks the server's inbox, without any action being taken by the user. By default IMAP keeps a copy of every message on the server even after the client retrieves a copy of the message and will only remove the server's copy if the client specifically requests that (ie by the user deleting messages in the client).

 

[rnbowhunter]

I had same problem and took phone back and they did a reset to factory default and fixed it.

 

[Haibua]

Also, take a look at k-9 mail - works very well for POP and IMAP accounts.

John, you ROCK!! near real time email is so critical to my business. for months since i've owned this droid i've had to power off/on and do battery pulls to get my phone to refresh with new emails. finally!!! a email app for the droid that works! (so far that is ) i have been so close to just eating the cost of buying a new bberry so i could have reliable email service. i seriously hated this phone even though it had all the other cool features. thanks so much for the tip on K-9!!

this was an imap situation.