yahoo mail fix on 2.1. Really?

[Sal]

I think I know what happened.



EDIT: And now I have to take it back. It JUST started duplicating. That's so weird! I've been using it for hours and the emails I sent in the past 4 hours have been fine. Why is it starting now.... Maybe because I manually told it to check?

How? Just by clicking on the sent folder to check? Why should that make it duplicate? That shouldn't happen in any form or fashion. Darn It! So they fixed the sign-in but not the most annoying issue with Yahoo. Mail. As I suspected....How many duplicates are you getting, anyhow?

 

[Sal]

The no wifi restriction is lame. I give up! I just signed up for Yahoo Plus and configured a POP3 connection and it works fine. Yahoo Plus can be cancelled at any time and Yahoo will reimburse you for the months you did not use.

So do you have 2.1? Did you just do the basic sign-in or do a manual one. If manual, how did you do that exactly (what did you type in where), if you don't mind me asking? I'm going with Plus too...seems the only thing to do at this point.

 

[ohioDroid]

How? Just by clicking on the sent folder to check? Why should that make it duplicate? That shouldn't happen in any form or fashion. Darn It! So they fixed the sign-in but not the most annoying issue with Yahoo. Mail. As I suspected....I'm waiting for the OTA update but now I'm not sure I'll even try to install yahoo mail and will stick to the frickin' browser. How many duplicates are you getting, anyhow?

Well, FYI, if you use k9mail, Yahoo works perfectly fine with IMAP on it. No duplicates or anything. I've been using it for months and it's pretty good, it has email signatures, I just like the stock Email app's smoothness and some interface stuff.

I got my 2.1 update and started using the Email app with Yahoo at 2pm EST and things were fine until 6:13pm EST. Now I get a duplicate of every mail sent after that time, every 5 minutes (my refresh rate).

 

[Sal]

Well, FYI, if you use k9mail, Yahoo works perfectly fine with IMAP on it. No duplicates or anything. I've been using it for months and it's pretty good, it has email signatures, I just like the stock Email app's smoothness and some interface stuff.

I got my 2.1 update and started using the Email app with Yahoo at 2pm EST and things were fine until 6:13pm EST. Now I get a duplicate of every mail sent after that time, every 5 minutes (my refresh rate).

Every 5 minutes. Dude, that sucks. So sorry. Hope we didn't put any bad mojo on you with this discussion.:icon_eek:

 

[shochman]

I did the 2.1 update today, setup Yahoo mail in the email application and it would not work when wifi was turned on. After you setup Yahoo Plus, you goto the email application and delete the old account. Then setup manually setup a new one with the Yahoo pop3 parameters. Instructions will be sent to you by Yahoo when you sign up for Yahoo Plus. Good luck!

 

[Sal]

I did the 2.1 update today, setup Yahoo mail in the email application and it would not work when wifi was turned on. After you setup Yahoo Plus, you goto the email application and delete the old account. Then setup manually setup a new one with the Yahoo pop3 parameters. Instructions will be sent to you by Yahoo when you sign up for Yahoo Plus. Good luck!

Thanks. But why set up Yahoo Plus manually with pop? With the update, you're supposed to be able to just sign-in, no? (especially since you already deleted the old account.)

 

[ohioDroid]

Don't worry about the 5 minute deal. There are two solutions.

1) Set the refresh rate to something longer
2) Tell the Email App not to check the mail at all. (this stops the duplicates).

Like I said, I've been using K9 (k9mail) for my email, instead of the stock email app. I wish the stock app was 'fixed' like they said it would be, but because that doesn't appear to be the case, I'll be sticking with K9.

 

[Sal]

Don't worry about the 5 minute deal. There are two solutions.

1) Set the refresh rate to something longer
2) Tell the Email App not to check the mail at all. (this stops the duplicates).

Like I said, I've been using K9 (k9mail) for my email, instead of the stock email app. I wish the stock app was 'fixed' like they said it would be, but because that doesn't appear to be the case, I'll be sticking with K9.

re: stock email. Isn't the point of the app that you can have the mail brought to you instead of vice versa? I might as well use the mobile browser to go and check email every few minutes if I'm not going to have that pull function. Very mad at, what, motorola/verizon/google? Shucks. I don't even know where to direct my fury!!

 

[ohioDroid]

re: stock email. Isn't the point of the app that you can have the mail brought to you instead of vice versa? I might as well use the mobile browser to go and check email every few minutes if I'm not going to have that pull function. Very mad at, what, motorola/verizon/google? Shucks. I don't even know where to direct my fury!!

That's actually what the people who develop k9 say. That there are obvious needed features in the default app and they want the issues to be addressed, so for now they are developing their own email app (it looks very similar) but they hope their code will be accepted into android's default email app.

 

[Sal]

re: stock email. Isn't the point of the app that you can have the mail brought to you instead of vice versa? I might as well use the mobile browser to go and check email every few minutes if I'm not going to have that pull function. Very mad at, what, motorola/verizon/google? Shucks. I don't even know where to direct my fury!!

That's actually what the people who develop k9 say. That there are obvious needed features in the default app and they want the issues to be addressed, so for now they are developing their own email app (it looks very similar) but they hope their code will be accepted into android's default email app.

Are there any downsides to K-9, unintended consequences, etc.?

 

[ohioDroid]

Are there any downsides to K-9, unintended consequences, etc.?

The program works as you'd expect an email app to work. It looks similar to the default app, and includes extra features like email signature, changing from a dark theme to a light theme and vica versa.

There are a few things I don't like. It's so advanced, that it's cumbersome to set up. I have an email account from my university, I set it up as IMAP, but K9 showed and wanted to pull (or push, your choice) every single folder (including Junk, Sent, unimportant stuff). You have to manually go through and configure each folder how you want it to update and such.

Once that's all said and done, it works well. I think it MAY be bigger in RAM than the default app but I might be wrong, it could be the same.

One thing I don't like: in the default app, if you open a notification saying you've got email, it will take you straight to the email, but in K9, if you do this, only SOMETIMES does it take you to the email. If you were viewing another email account, it will instead take you to that account, and you have to go back, select the account you want... It's annoying, but it adds at most 3 more seconds of effort.

There are probably many more features I haven't explored.

Oh, and it works perfectly fine IMAPing into Yahoo mail, of course...

 

[Sal]

Are there any downsides to K-9, unintended consequences, etc.?

The program works as you'd expect an email app to work. It looks similar to the default app, and includes extra features like email signature, changing from a dark theme to a light theme and vica versa.

There are a few things I don't like. It's so advanced, that it's cumbersome to set up. I have an email account from my university, I set it up as IMAP, but K9 showed and wanted to pull (or push, your choice) every single folder (including Junk, Sent, unimportant stuff). You have to manually go through and configure each folder how you want it to update and such.

Once that's all said and done, it works well. I think it MAY be bigger in RAM than the default app but I might be wrong, it could be the same.

One thing I don't like: in the default app, if you open a notification saying you've got email, it will take you straight to the email, but in K9, if you do this, only SOMETIMES does it take you to the email. If you were viewing another email account, it will instead take you to that account, and you have to go back, select the account you want... It's annoying, but it adds at most 3 more seconds of effort.

There are probably many more features I haven't explored.

Oh, and it works perfectly fine IMAPing into Yahoo mail, of course...

Wow. Thanks. Great review. I'm so non-techie (can't explain why I love these forums so much:icon_ banana that I'm waiting for the OTA 2.1 update (even though it looks easy to force it). So anything too complex puts me off I bit, I'll admit. we'll see.....

 

[Pops21]

Got 2.1 this morning. Ran the Email app, put in my yahoo email address/password, fiddled with the options screen and bingo, everything worked. It puts a notification of new email in my bar and is pretty darn nice.

Remember, it only works over 3G, not WiFi.

I'd never even tried yahoo mail before today (just used the browser for it) and I must say I am quite happy with the results.

Mines doesn't get notifications and i have it set to do so.

 

[Sal]

Got 2.1 this morning. Ran the Email app, put in my yahoo email address/password, fiddled with the options screen and bingo, everything worked. It puts a notification of new email in my bar and is pretty darn nice.

Remember, it only works over 3G, not WiFi.

I'd never even tried yahoo mail before today (just used the browser for it) and I must say I am quite happy with the results.

Mines doesn't get notifications and i have it set to do so.

seems like a few things didn't get fixed properly...

 

[TatDroid]

And DELETED mail, too!

Everyone talks about the problems with duplicates in their Yahoo sent mail folder (I just deleted 106,000 emails from my sent mail folder earlier today), but have you checked your deleted mail folder lately? I didn't realize, but same problem there! Since I got my Droid in early November I would guess I've deleted about a half million sent emails. I guess Google is going to force me to pay Yahoo to upgrade to Yahoo Plus. Pretty ironic, huh?