Best Email app...

[havens1515]

OK, I hate to say it... but I miss the blur messaging app. I was able to put all of my email accounts into that one app, and it would notify me when I had a new email in any of the accounts.

I downloaded k-9 mail, and I am able to link it to multiple accounts, but it doesn't ever seem to get my new mail unless I force it to. Any suggestions for an app to watch multiple email accounts?

I have 3 Yahoo accounts - 1 personal, 1 that I forward my GroupWise work mail to, and 1 for a team that I coach - and gmail.

Also - any way to get my GroupWise mail straight to my phone? That would eliminate one of those accounts.

I don't mind using the official gmail app, but the official Yahoo app will only do 1 account, so I can't use that for all 3 accounts.

 

[Redflea]

It's $10, but Enhanced Email might do what you need...also adds search capabilities that the stock email app sadly lacks.

There's a trial version on the developer's web site - should be a link from the Market entry.

I miss the Blur email app as well, for exchange accounts it is far superior to the stock AOSP email app, unfortunately.

 

[daggar]

OK, I hate to say it... but I miss the blur messaging app. I was able to put all of my email accounts into that one app, and it would notify me when I had a new email in any of the accounts.

I downloaded k-9 mail, and I am able to link it to multiple accounts, but it doesn't ever seem to get my new mail unless I force it to. Any suggestions for an app to watch multiple email accounts?

K9 can auto-check accounts. If you still have it, open it up and hit the menu button, then "more > settings > account settings > Fetching Mail" and look for "Folder Poll Frequency." Set that to what you like, and it will auto-check the emails for you.

I think you have to do that for every account separately, unfortunately.

K9 has a lot of settings, which can be a pain, but it is capable of handling just about every use case you throw at it.

 

[havens1515]

Awesome, thank you! Even with your instructions it took me a while to do it. You have to be within a specific account in order to get the correct menu to get there. I was in the global message box, so I didn't get the same menus. I did figure it out though, and I set it to poll every 30 minutes for each of my accounts. (Had to set each one separately :/)

Thank you very much for the info! Saved me from spending $10 on that other app! (I hate buying apps, especially when there's plenty of free alternatives!)

 

[daggar]

Glad it worked for you. K9's settings pages are a mess, but that's true with any full-featured mail program I've ever used- on PC, Mac or Phone. Someone needs to make a mail app with tags and search engine dedicated entirely to the damned settings pages.

Awesome, thank you! Even with your instructions it took me a while to do it. You have to be within a specific account in order to get the correct menu to get there. I was in the global message box, so I didn't get the same menus. I did figure it out though, and I set it to poll every 30 minutes for each of my accounts. (Had to set each one separately :/)

Thank you very much for the info! Saved me from spending $10 on that other app! (I hate buying apps, especially when there's plenty of free alternatives!)

 

[havens1515]

Haha yeah, problem is that there are different settings for each individual screen. There should be one settings page, where you can change settings for the entire app. Well, now I know. Thanks again!

 

[tnygigles66]

I don't understand. You can't use the email app that cam with cm7 for three yahoo accounts?

 

[Redflea]

I don't understand. You can't use the email app that cam with cm7 for three yahoo accounts?

Good question...The stock AOSP email app has a unified inbox, separate account in boxes, and allows for multiple accounts.

I assumed he had tried it and it didn't work w/his Yahoo accounts for some reason...Yahoo seems so 1990. ;-)

 

[tnygigles66]

I don't understand. You can't use the email app that cam with cm7 for three yahoo accounts?

Good question...The stock AOSP email app has a unified inbox, separate account in boxes, and allows for multiple accounts.

I assumed he had tried it and it didn't work w/his Yahoo accounts for some reason...Yahoo seems so 1990. ;-)

lol, I know. I use them for my junk emails. (if i have to sign up for something like this sight)

I have two yahoo accounts and prefer the aosp over any other email app, but i know the blur app also has text, facebook, twitter, and whatever else you might have.

 

[ShiftyEyedGoat]

The Blur email app is superior to me in that it always displays the next/prev arrows. The AOSP app only shows it at top and when you're in landscape mode it doesn't show it at all. I'm sorry but I use this for my work Exchange email and can't stand losing that functionality.

 

[havens1515]

I don't understand. You can't use the email app that cam with cm7 for three yahoo accounts?

Good question...The stock AOSP email app has a unified inbox, separate account in boxes, and allows for multiple accounts.

I assumed he had tried it and it didn't work w/his Yahoo accounts for some reason...Yahoo seems so 1990. ;-)

Haha it's funny you say that, because I got my first Yahoo account in about 1999, before gmail and so many others. I've just stuck with it for my other accounts b/c I'm so used to it.

I had tried the stock one once before, and I couldn't get it to let me add multiple accounts. Maybe I did something wrong, idk. K-9 is fine though, now that I have it getting mail every 30 mins. Now that I figured that out, it seems to actually work better than the blur app for getting my mail!

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[tnygigles66]

I don't understand. You can't use the email app that cam with cm7 for three yahoo accounts?

Good question...The stock AOSP email app has a unified inbox, separate account in boxes, and allows for multiple accounts.

I assumed he had tried it and it didn't work w/his Yahoo accounts for some reason...Yahoo seems so 1990. ;-)

Haha it's funny you say that, because I got my first Yahoo account in about 1999, before gmail and so many others. I've just stuck with it for my other accounts b/c I'm so used to it.

I had tried the stock one once before, and I couldn't get it to let me add multiple accounts. Maybe I did something wrong, idk. K-9 is fine though, now that I have it getting mail every 30 mins. Now that I figured that out, it seems to actually work better than the blur app for getting my mail!

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Fter you load your first account tap menu, accounts, menu, add account. Then you can add accounts. I have two on mine.

I'm relatively sure since cm7 is aosp that the blur email would break stuff, but i think a few may make a blurred cm7 rom.

 

[Redflea]

I'd love CM7 w:

- Blur email/calendar
- Blur alarm
- Blur social networking

But those are probably tied into Blur contacts and dialer, and all sorts of supporting libraries, so it's a potentially big hill to climb to make that happen.