POP Email Problems

[mlposer]

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? My phone will intermittently stop receiving pop mail and will only continue to retrieve if I pull the battery or power cycle the Moto Droid. I know the pop mail is working since I added it to my gmail and those emails are syncing fine. It is just my normal pop email accounts that won't download correctly.

Thanks

[keiichi25]

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? My phone will intermittently stop receiving pop mail and will only continue to retrieve if I pull the battery or power cycle the Moto Droid. I know the pop mail is working since I added it to my gmail and those emails are syncing fine. It is just my normal pop email accounts that won't download correctly.

Thanks

First recommendation is check how you configured your pop mail account, how often you have it trying to update and also if you have your background sync enabled.

[mlposer]

Thanks. Background sync is checked. I am reading eamil every 5 mins. Still need to power cycle for it to work.

Thanks

[rbarnes1230]

I've been having this same problem with my droid. It doesn't receive emails from my hotmail account in real time. If I refresh it manually about 5 times, then I should receive a few of them. But it isn't instant like it should be. And its auto-refresh is on 10 min. The gmail account is instant though. Please help

[JayMonster]

The POP e-mail client from everything I have read seems to be a real Achilles heel with the Droid (well technically Android in general). However you can get K-9 Mail from the marketplace which seems to work much better than the default application.

K-9 Mail

[rbarnes1230]

Thank you! I downloaded the k9 app and it works great!

[Hairdad]

if you install k9 mail, do you have to do anything to the android email app, or do you let both sync?

[JayMonster]

You REMOVE your e-mail accounts from the included client if you are going to use K-9

[640k]

you can also have gmail check your POP3 accounts. steps in my sig.

[Matth3w]

you can also have gmail check your POP3 accounts. steps in my sig.

This is what I did, because the droid simply did not properly check my IMAP email account. If I manually checked it and hit load messages it worked, but if I left the email to rely on the hourly updates that I had it set to, it worked MAYBE once per day. And that's with a full strength wifi connection going as well.