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User Rating3.59/5K-9 Mail Android App is an open source email client for Android with multi-folder sync, email signatures, Bcc-to-self, return-address configuration, keyboard shortcuts, Exchange Support, message flagging, IMAP deletes, saving attachments, configurable notifications and more.
Price: Free
K9 Mail Android App is one of the best email clients for Android. It’s loaded with every email feature you could think of except ActiveSync (Push email, however IMAP integration syncs almost as fast as ActiveSync). By far a better replacement over the default email client created by Google (if you’ve read my gripe about the default email client deleting my inboxes article, you’ll know why). I personally like the iMAP folder synchronization, signatures and the ability to multi-manage several emails inboxes from a mobile device. Here is the complete list of features:
K9 Mail Android App is extremely useful, especially for those who are dependant on email.
Once you have your IMAP, POP3, and/or WebDAV (Exchange) accounts; everything else is typical of a mobile email client. Be sure to set your email preferences such as notifications and sync options. One usability perk K9 Mail offers over Gmail is the Previous/Next buttons, which makes browsing through emails convenient versus viewing a message then going back to the entire list every time.
If you use K9 Mail Android App as your default email client, then it is used probably daily.
The user interface recently has the added option of light background or classic dark. Gripe Alert: when viewing an email list in landscape mode (keyboard open), the email items are very small, could be difficult to read the small fonts.
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Testing out the K-9 and also MailDroid at the moment. I like the idea that K-9 has so many options to fine tune the account to my needs. Once thing I can’t figure out (and found on MailDroid) is the ability to “Save Sent Mails on Server”.
I’m the opposite I guess as others and like to have the phone email and the laptop email show the same emails in the “Sent” and “Inbox” folders.
Thanks!
I am a outlook addict on WM 6.x. Will there be a similar push mail version on Droid ?? or will there be an Outlook version that runs on Droid ??
@JP: What functionality of Outlook on WinMo do you require that K-9 doesn’t provide?
SMIME would be a big one.
I found the answer about the sent folder……
The emal account should be IMAP, in K-9 view the account you want to change then go to:
Menu->More->Settings->Account settings
Scroll down and select Incoming server
Scroll down and you will see buttons for Archive, Drafts, and Sent Items, etc.
Tap the button for sent items and a list of the available folders will be shown, select the folder you want to use.
I did get K9 to work although the syncing was unreliable – If I deleted on the server side – it deleted on the handheld – but not visa versa (although it did at first)…Conclusion – went back to the blackberry – nothing handles emails like a blackberry…..And the battery life is so much better – Droid – 6-8 hours – Blackberry 20 – 24 hours….. I will wait for the 4G phones and try again!!
Dont download this app, it promises a lot but fails spectacularly over a minute to check or send an email when the gmail app or the native androind email client takes 7 seconds, uses double the ammount of data required as others.l..it’s a watse
@Rob: It sounds like you may have some other sorts of issues with your settings. You have to be careful with your IDLE and folder poll settings not to have it check the accounts too often. Push seems to work well K-9 so I leave “IDLE” @ 60 minutes and “Folder Poll” set to never. My data usage via this app is low and I always get my mail relatively quick. I check it’s response time compared to using Outlook on my desktop via Wifi and using the web-based Gmail browser (also with Yahoo), no issues! I receive my mail as fast if not sometimes faster than it pop-ups on my Outlook. This app has an abudance of functionality and usage over the standard native Gmail app. I tried using the Gmail app and it just wasn’t enough for me. I also tried Maildroid and it couldn’t fulfill the features I needed with receiving 5 different email accounts between Google Apps/Gmail and Yahoo. I highly recommend this app to anyone who needs more than one account.
Jason:
I am having issues with the “socket not connected issue”. I tried finding the “idle” setting you discussed and couldn’t find it, and the “push” setting is grayed out so I cannot change it. Any thoughts?
@Julie: There are many reasons for this. I have to ask a few questions to really understand how to resolve the issue. What type of email account are you using (IMAP, POP3, Exchange)? What type of connection settings are you using for that account (SSL, TLS)? Also, what provider are you using such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.? You can also try searching the K-9 Mail Google Site in their issues section for anyone having the same issues. I saw a few entries but no specific resolution for the problem. I had this problem occur when I tried setting up an IMAP account before I had activate IMAP functionality in my Gmail account.
I am afraid that I cannot get it up and running fior my exchange server mail. I can give you the details on a direct mail..(domain, exchange, user name) nut for some reason I fail miserably to set it up. In the meantime setting up the native client was a two seconds job and so was teh Nitrodesk email client for exchange which I currently use.
Any assistance would be more than welcome..
Many thanks
@George: I found an issue logged on their site that might be similar to what your describing. No solution found yet but I will continue to look through their log.
http://ow.ly/2K51H
Many thanks for the quick response. Tried it all but no luck. I get a message of illegal character in path…
Any additional help will be welcome.
For me, the K-9 was able to satisfy something that the native droid mail could not provide. Running my email through godaddy (imap), the native program would not retrieve any of my emails in a timely manner. Basically, I got incoming emails whenever godaddy decided to send. K-9 satisfies this gap by going out and fetching all of my messages….something I could not get the native program to work.
However, the native program has no problem with the gmail accounts….those drop in almost instantaniously. It just didn’t work for my situation.
Good to know about the multiple accounts on MailDroid. I stopped using it because I started seeing an advertising banner at the bottom of my inbox…..
@Ski-me: I don’t want my post to be misleading so let me clarify. MailDroid does support multiple accounts, however I felt the features weren’t sufficient for my needs. Creating signatures in MailDroid was a pain and really hard to edit, especially if you use a long one for a business or organization account. Switching accounts wasn’t nearly as fluid as K-9. Setting up accounts in MailDroid, however, was a little less complex and required less time than it did for me using K-9. I feel the additional time, features, and settings that K-9 offers is well worth it. The native app is too basic for me since I use email soo heavily with multiple accounts for different purposes.
No problem….thanks Jason.
Question – I use to see notification icons in the top screen now I don’t.
@Ski-Me: Each account in K-9 allows you to choose whether you have notifications or not. Make sure to check the account settings (not folder or global settings) and ensure that “New Mail Notifications” is selected.
That seems to be the problem….
I have “new mail notifications” checked as well as “notifiy for mail I sent”
Still, no icon. I do get a “chime” noise when emails come in though.
Yesterday, the icon would stay on for maybe 5 minutes and then dissapear. Now, no icons at all.
@Ski-Me: What device are you using and what Android OS? It seems trivial but are there a large amount of icons at the top of your device from other applications running? There could be a few reasons why it doesn’t show up. How often are you having K9 poll your accounts?
I’m using a Droid 2 off of Verizon and the operating system is 2.2.
I don’t have a lot running in the background however I am using touchdown to sync my work email and it’s server. The icons in the top are nothing out of the ordinary…. bluetooth, 3g, antenna, battery and clock on the right side and a battery status on the left with an occasional touchdown mail icon. That’s it.
For the k-9, I have it syncing every 5 minutes.
@Ski-me: That’s an awkward issue. Have you tried reinstalling the application?
Jason. I am pretty sure you’re the guy who will be able to put this question to bed for me once and for all. I have just purchased a Droid X. I am coming from having used a Blackberry Curve for the past 3+ years and am accustomed to using the profiles in order to manage my email alert tones etc. I currently use 5 email accounts on a regular basis and was very unhappy to find that the Droid isn’t set up to be able to assign individual ringtones to each account. I also need to be able to silence all but one email at night. One of my email accounts has to be with in my reach 24/7, the other 4 do not. Will K9 mail accomplish this? Failing this, i may have to go back to my Blackberry pending any new changes in with way these new phones handle mail. I know this is a small thing..but it’s not to me!
Katherine: This is a great question. Using K-9 you can change the ringtone setting for each account, however, the only way to have only one notification would be to manually disable notifications on each account each night. Seems to be a bit of a hassle but it is possible. The only other solution to that problem may be to acquire an app such as Tasker that allows for a lot more automation control then you’ll ever find standard with Android.
Hi Jason. Thanks for your help. I loaded K-9 with no problems and I am up and running with my email. Problem solved. Ya.. it’s a bit of trouble to silence each account at night but hey.. better than abandoning the Droid on account of that one issue. It doesn’t seem that I am able to use non Android ringtones though. I downloaded some fun notification tones from Zedge but none of them work with the accounts managed through K-9.
Another option, as silly as it sounds, could be to use the default mail client for your accounts you’d like to silence at night and use K-9 for the one you want to always stay on. Sync is easy to turn off your mail using a widget but K-9 notifications would still come through. The only issue there is having a different ringtone for the default mail client. All those accounts would have one ringtone while your K-9 (24/7) account would have it’s separate.
Just thought I’d throw that option out there.
And, thanks for this suggestion too! I haven’t deleted accounts on my Droid mail message box so it’s possible that if the issue of silencing becomes a pain that i could go back to using the Droid mail for the four accounts and only use K-9 for the one I need 24/7. You’ve been a great help. Thanks so much!
You seem like you know alot about K9 mail. I used it in my original Droid. Now I have an X and when i change the settings: for instance to turn off notifications, or increase the font size or shorten the time before polling it doesn’t seem to save them an they revert back to where they were. Do you know what’s up?
Thanks
Hi Jason. I had tried to log in today with the account information I had originally entered but it failed to find my log-in name. Anyway, I registered again, now with the handle exit48kate. I’m trying to reply to Dave Garrison’s post about not getting the font size to stay when making changes but don’t see a reply button for his post. Regarding the font changes, I found that if I changed the font size in any one of my 5 email accounts, the “All Messages” box OR the “Unified Inbox” it would change it for all of them uniformly. I didn’t explore any of the other items he asked about. Not sure this is of any help but..
Katherine: I can reset your old password as long as your email address that you used is correct. If it’s no big deal, let me know.
This sounds like a good tip but I’m not sure it’s the issue.
Dave: If you haven’t tried this one already, give it a shot:
1) Before uninstalling the app, go into the “Settings > Applications > Manage Applications” menu to view all your installed apps.
2) Open the info for the “K-9 Mail” app and clear the cache and data.
3) Uninstall K-9
4) Reinstall K-9
Check to see if that may help. I haven’t found any reoccuring issues that your experiencing with the app. Worse comes to worse, submit an issue ticket at the K-9 Google Code page.
By all means, there are always little quirks and updates that need to be made but I would still recommend this app to anyone.
I’m new to Android email apps. (I have Sprint EVO.) I just downloaded K9. Seems great. BUT I’m trying to figure out how to stop K9 checking for email every time I bring the phone out of sleep mode – it’s eating up my battery. I’ve tried several settings but nothing works so far.
Any assistance would be appreciated!
There’s a widget on the Android Market that claims to stop the background sync. I’ve never tried it but the name is K-9 Data Killer.
Just re-installed the program and sent an email to myself. Icon appeared for about 3-4 seconds and then dissapeared. So, I guess re-installing it didn’t help.
@Ski-me: I’m at a loss as to why this is happening. Did this happen after the 2.2 upgrade?
No, I’m using the same operating system that came with the Droid 2 from Verizon. This is happenning on my wife’s phone and my phone (same ones). Other than that, it’s OK. We just have to go into the k-9 program to see if we have any new emails…….
@Ski-me: This evening, I will shoot an email to the developer and see if this is a known issue. In the meantime, submit an issue on the developers website. I didn’t see anything in the current list of issues the resembled the problem you are having.
Once you receive a resolution, post it here in case anyone else is having a similar issue. You can reach the website at: http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/
Jason, thanks for the help. I have submitted the issue using the link you provided. Appreciate the help.
@Ski-me: Great to hear! It helps developers out a lot if you follow the steps for logging the errors using the Android SDK or aLogCat. http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/wiki/LoggingErrors
1) You can install it on either a Windows or Mac with no issues. Just make sure that you have the Java SDK installed on your system. If you use a Mac (such as the Snow Leopard OS), the Java SDK comes built-in to the system.
2) As an alternative, you can download “aLogcat” from the Android Market. It’s much simpler to use than the SDK.
As a personal note, I use the SDK as an emulator and also to take screenshots via USB cord. If you don’t plan use it for those purposes, stick with “aLogcat”.
Good luck!
@Jason – I submitted a request a few weeks ago and nothing yet. Does it generally take awhile for them to respond? A few days after the initial submital, I did recieve an email asking for the log. I did that (via email) and then also uploaded to the website a few weeks ago….still nothing.
Any thoughts? Icon is still sporatic and generally stays on for 5-10 seconds and then dissapears. I installed MailDroid and it consistently gave me notification icons without dissapearing so it seems to definitely be linked to the K-9 program.
Here is the issue link:
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=2213
@ski-me: No response on my end either. It’s a very popular application so hopefully they are bombarded with feature requests rather than issues or complaints
I’ll try and shoot them an e-mail again and see if we can’t get a response. I’ve researched the net and haven’t found this issue replicated anywhere else.
Why are some emails shaded a light purple color in my inbox? I don’t understand!?
I believe it means that the K-9 program has not downloaded the entire message. If you open up the shaded one and scroll to the bottom, do you see a “download complete message” button? This should download the remaining portion of the email and then turn it white.
In your settings there is a place where you can specify how large an email you can download automatically. If it’s greater than that specified number, K-9 will not auto-download. I assume you can increase this number if you want.
Does K-9 have a feature to allow confirmation of deletes? I have one too many times accidentally hit the delete button.
@Dustin: I haven’t found anything so far. Maybe you could submit a feature request? http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/
does K-9 support email templates? I send lots of standard message to my clients. so I am wondering if K-9 can let me send emails from templates.
thanks
@snownod: Not entirely but there is a workaround. You set up an email template as a “Identity” in your account settings. Typically I use this for different email signatures but you can set up multiple signatures for multiple accounts. In your case, you could type up an email template and use your “template” as an “Identity” so you don’t have to re-type all the information all over again. Works really well and you can set multiple identities on any given account used with K-9.
I downloaded to my HTC EVO (2.2) and could not get to connect. We’re not running a WebDAV server, just IIS and Exchange 2003 (with SSL). Had no problem with default ‘droid mail app that comes with HTC EVO and tried TouchDown ($20 Exchange/Outlook app for Android) and that connected without issue so not sure what’s going on but stopped wasting time with this and move to the TouchDown app. WOW that app is great! Would have liked to see free implementation of better Exchange integration like this promised but can’t recommend based on my experience.
Touchdown is a great app for Exchange users. I’ve had others report having no problems with Exchange and then some do. Personally, I don’t use Exchange so I’m unable to tell you my own opinion. I use K-9 with IMAP accounts and it works great for that purpose.
Okay, so I mostly love K-9 but I must have some settings wrong, because it doesn’t behave the way I’d expect an email client to behave.
Above you mentioned changing IDLE to 60 minutes. I cannot find a setting called IDLE in either Folder or Account settings. You also said poll NEVER. Which setting is that, again I can’t find it. K-9 was using way too much time downloading mail which clearly drained the battery from the WiFi use.
Every time I open it, I lose messages I downloaded and have to download them again. I lose my stars (favorites) and everything is marked unread again. wtf? If I download 250 messages, I don’t want to download them every time I open the program! I tried setting it to store headers locally (in incoming server setup) but it didn’t make a difference.
This is more of a feature request for the developers, but I want the ability to decide message by message whether to delete the message on the device, on the server, or not at all. Right now I can only set this per account, not per message. Some messages deserve to go straight to the bit-bucket, some need to be saved for later but aren’t needed on the device, some need to be kept a while in both places.
Ideas?
@Maryjane: No problem, I can help you here!
First, go to the account your trying to change (usually the Inbox is where I start). Press the “Menu” key. Select “More” then “Settings” and finally “Account Settings”. After scrolling down just a little you should see “Folder poll check frequency”. This is where you can change how often K-9 will automatically sync your phone to the server. I have this set to “Never” because the push for my Gmail and Google Apps accounts works great without it so no need to waste battery life.
Next is the IDLE time. Scroll down until you find “Incoming Server”. Click on that and scroll all the way to the button. You will find “Refresh IDLE connection” and be presented different options. I selected “Every 60 minutes”. Click next and it should take you back to the account settings screen. Press the back key until you come back to the inbox. Your done!
In the account settings there is a selection to change how much data your phone will automatically download on it’s own. It should read “Automatically download” and my setting is at “64kb”. Set this higher if you want K-9 to retain the contents of the email automatically. Otherwise, if you have images or attachments you will need to download them everytime you access the email if the size limit is over the setting you selected.
This should help keep your phone’s battery life in check. Let me know if you need anything else!
Hello. I’ve an Android phone since few days and so far this is the best mail app I found; I think the GMail would be better if they would add support for multiple sender addresses, but at the moment K9 is the best one.
However, I have an issue: sometimes it gets stucked, means it stops retrieving mails. I set up IDLE refresh to 24 minutes and POLL to never. Just today I noticed opening my mail client on the computer that I had a new mail and no notification on my device. I left the mail there for some time and I noticed it did not find it anyway (even if those 24 minutes passed).
Anyone has a similar probelm? I just tried to add the POLL to 15 minutes, but I don’t really like to have polling active.
Could not get it to connect with my Exchange server. Don’t know about WebDAV setup but HTC default Android email client and Touchdown had NO problems connecting. Disappointed as I tried 3 times to get K9 to work before I deleted and moved on.
I just downloaded K9 and think that it will be a huge plus, but my “archive”, “move” and “spam” buttons at the bottom of each email are there, but they are dark grey and unusable. Is this a setting? Please help!
K-9 does everything as advertised and is far superior to the stock client loaded on my ATT Captivate. My only issue, and it is significant for my purposes, is that I can only attach pictures, videos and voice tags to my e-mail. I really need the ability to send pdf and word document files. Does anyone have any suggestions?
@bsrichy: If you use a file manager such as Astro installed on your device, you will be able to add any file you please. By default. K-9 doesn’t have this functionality but adding Astro File Manager does.
Jason,
I posted about the “archive”, “move” and “spam” buttons that show up on the emails in the K9 product earlier. Mine show up but are “greyed” out and unresponsive when I attempt to use them. Do you know if there is a setting to make these buttons active? I would love this product completely if I could figure this out.
Thanks!
I have K9 running with 3 accounts. 2 work fine but on the one which is defined as Webdav/Exchange I can only get K9 to download headers. The account is set to download messages up to 128KB but on every message all I get is the header and the button that says “Download Complete Message”. Is this a limitation with Exchange accounts on K9 or have I missed something?
H I have a problem I am using this app although 2 things bother me.
I cannot for the life of me see the sub folders in my email, only sent and trash which even then do not match up to the correct ones
Secondly when i send a message through the phone it takes around 45 minutes to go through
Ross
@Ross: Are you using IMAP or POP3 accounts with K-9?
Hi. Does K-9 have pinch to zoom capabilities? I love Gmail bit it doesn’t have this feature. I can’t read my email without my glasses.
mn
When I forward an email it is delivered as raw HTML… not readable, i.e. pretty useless. How do I forward a message as I received it (which is the purpose of forwarding a message
I am having trouble downloading my full voicemail message using K-9 Mail. Our work VM’s are sent to our server then pushed to outlook. It worked on my blackberry but now that I upgraded to a Droid 2 it not work. It will let me listen to the first 2 seconds of the message and then stops. If I try to “download complete message” it gives me a connection error. Can you please provide me with some recommendations to fix the problem?
I am using gmail w/ IMAP on K9. Its been pretty reliable. However, i can’t figure out how to enforce having the entire email message (ie. body + attachments) saved to the phone. I select “download complete message”, which it does – but sometime later when i don’t have a connection i go to look at that message and it can’t cause it needs a connection?
I haven’t used imap before, but i’m thinking about going back to pop if i can’t get this working as i need to keep *some* emails on my phone for access w/o a connection.
Anyone experiencing same issue?
Why does k9 only SEND email when im on wifi and not on 3g?
On 3g they just sit in my outbox
What type of account do you use? (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Exchange)
Thats a good question! Im a newbie sadly.
My email is hosted by the same company that host my website.
I know my incoming and outgoing servers are mail.blahblah.com
I set up the email on my galaxy s with all the same settings as my outlook express accounts on my desktop pc. And I can recieve over 3g just not send, they wait until I’m on wifi.
This is something I saw happen with Yahoo email accounts. It may depend upon the connection settings. You may want to check and ensure you have the correct security settings.
Just to be sure, your outgoing server is the same as your incoming server? Do you use the same ports for both ends?
Thanks for the quick help!!!!!!!
The outgoing and incoming server is the same.
The incoming is pop3-110port
the outgoing is smtp- 1025port
Thanks
My best guess is that it’s a security setting. I’ve often seen email issue when not selecting to have authentication done on the outgoing server side as well. Check your settings for your outgoing server and be sure that you have the correct port, security type, and have “require login” checkmarked.
That’s the most common cause between the two but aside from that I would check with your hosting company to be sure all settings are correct.
Hey there,
I have a problem with K9 that seems pretty unique: I can’t turn of the sound notification. I get 50-100 emails per day, and it is really annoying hearing the rather loud notification 20 times before my alarm goes off in the morning.
I’ve already figured out that it does not retrieve the notification settings from the native email, but rather uses the default notification sound.
Does anyone know how to turn it off completely, without turning off all notification sounds?
Thanks a lot,
Alexis
To remove the notification sound on K9-Mail email, go to your mail account » tap Menu button » choose “More” » tap “Settings” » choose “Account Settings” » scroll down to Notifications sections and tap “New mail ringtone” » choose “Silent”. This will silence all ringtones for that particular account.
Thanks, you have saved my longterm mental health!
The ringtone seems to set for ALL accounts, as opposed to just the one I want to set it for….
For example, I don’t want to be notified by ringtone for most of my email accounts (I have about a dozen), but there are two that I would like to have the ringtone notify me. If I set the ringtone (within that email’s individual account settings (I know, because the email account is listed at the top of the settings screen) for needthis@myemail, it sets it for ALL of the email accounts. Or if I set the ringtone to silent for dontneedthis@myemail, it sets it for ALL of the email accounts.
Bug?
How can I turn off polling? I would like to be able to use my phone without having my email download.
Open the inbox of the account you want to change the polling settings for. Here is the way to turn off polling for that account:
Menu > More > Account Settings
Scroll down until you find “Folder poll check frequency”. Select “Never”.
Now K-9 will not poll that account unless you manually start the sync!
Tried that, polling shown as off but, messages continue to arrive. IMAP configuration.
I do as well but it was done on purpose. I use Gmail/Google App accounts with K-9 and one Yahoo account. Since K-9 supports Push and IMAP IDLE, it will send any changes to your mailbox to your phone automatically without interaction. This is generally specific for receiving new emails. The only way I know of preventing this would be to disable IMAP and use POP instead.
Another suggestion would be to decrease how much of the message K-9 will automatically download when it receives the mail.
IMAP is wonderful since (a) it keeps all your emails in sync between your workstation, laptop and smartphone including Sent and even Draft emails and (b) it does not require polling (thus it is push email, virtually instant).
It is simply wonderful *IF* your email host provides IMAP and IMAP IDLE. Most provide IMAP but only a few provide IMAP IDLE. For example, at this time Telushosting.com provides IMAP IDLE but telus.net only provides IMAP.
I haven’t reviewed all the other comments (there are hundreds), but I have a weird problem — the notifications that come in via K9 will occasionally be a day (or several days) old. (On an HTC Evo.) For example, today I pulled down the notification menu (or whatever you call the bar at the top) and saw that I had an email from someone [important] that had come in at 12:35pm. I quick clicked on it to see what it was, and discovered that it was from three days ago (at 12:35pm)!
This has happened more than once, and I have emailed K9 support twice on it with no response, so that’s why I’m posting here — in case anyone has any insight.
Thanks.
I have a new Samsung Galaxy S – My IMAP account would not configure – and Samsung suggested K9 – which worked like a champ – but when I delete emails on the phone – it doesnt update my server – so I have to delete again when in front of the desktop. Any solutions…..Just changed from over 10 years with a Blackberry which handles emails flawlessly….
Hi Dave,
I also have just switched from Blackberry to the Galaxy and I’m more than happy with it.
For your problem, if you look at the settings for K9 (Account Settings), there is an item labelled ‘When I delete’.
There you can select what hapens to the message on the server.
HTH
Paul
Hi Paul – thanks for your reply….I didnt see those settings – but I just checked and odd enough the radio button for delete off server was checked off –
Its very strange – maybe there is some other setting in conjunction with that one.
This has been very frustrating – I had to use K9 because the Samsung Client didnt access my IMAP account as it came – so after moving my way up to level 3 support – they finally told me about K9. When I found out that the stock email client couldnt sync with the server – I was glad to use K9 – but now I am stuck. The phone has some great features and a nice look – but thinking about going back to the blackberry as I think it handles emails better than anything.
Also battery life is aweful – only last 8-9 hours – Blackberry could go 24 – 48 hours…
Let me know if there are any other settings to try.
Thanks for your response – I appreciate it.
Hey Paul –
btw – it does work in reverse – if I delete off my desktop – it syncs with the K9 – and deletes off the handheld ….. just not visa versa
Thanks
Dave
Paul – fooling with it some more – and it has finally started working!!!! Like to tell you exactly what did it – played with some folder settings – but it works!!!???
Thanks for your help…
Paul,
I am interested in purchasing the Droid Incredible and using K-9. Understand you have the Galaxy, but wondering if you know if it’s possible to delete from the server (have the ‘when I delete…’ option) for both POP3 and IMAP, or only IMAP?
Thank you
Seth
No manual.
huge features like “expunge” unexplained.
won’t let you resend sent emails as new so must retype whole email if wanting to append to it or if wanting to send to someone else without adding forwarding quotes (which mess up formatting)
no autodelete oldest received emails from android device (while leaving them on server for desktop to retrieve later) so emails folders quickly swell to mebabytes in size per account to swamp your android device memory and cause functionality problems for whole device. This is very bad for high volume email accounts (which is supposed to be its strength ) because it fills space on phone very quickly if high volume of email when downloading full text (only way to make it useful as not downloading full text means waiting huge wait times for each email to download as you read defeating whole purpose of program which is billed as fast program to go through huge amounts of email.
nice try but no autodelete of oldest emails after storage size reached is huge problem. It means your android phone is ALWAYS hitting storage limit memory problems which screws up whole phone and all other programs .
When I forward an email comprised of HTML, it send it as raw HTML… With all the extra code it is impossible to read. Is there a fix coming for this?
ho can we create a spam folder so that spam goes there automatically?
There MUST be a solution to my dilemma:
I want the default view to be my inbox along with my sub folders (e.g. folders in that I have setup for different people or companies under my inbox).
The only way I can get close is to set the default view to “All Mail”, but the issue then is that I also see all of my sent mail which is really annoying.
Can someone give me some guidance? Again, I don’t want to see my sent mail, only incoming mail from my inbox and various sub folders.
HI,
I like K9 alot, but have two annoyances. First, i would like the sender’s name to be on top, not under the subject line. is there a settign to reverse that?
2nd and most imoportant issue: When I scroll through list of emails and pick one and then go back to list, it defaults to top of list! This drives me crazy. If I am scrollign through email list, I would like to click on one and then go back to same place in email list — not the very top!!! is there a setting to fix this?
Thanks!
K9 has a huge problem that will slowly make your phone basically slow to a crawl but it only appears after using it a while.
It’s probably related to the fact that k9 doesn’t automatically delete oldest emails first or free up memory from the database. moving emails to trash doesn’t do what you think – it just moves them to trash folder on your server and doesn’t actually delete them on your phone even after choosing to empty trash ( at least it didn’t work for me)
therefore your phone has no more memory which causes no room for icons to redraw, causes databases write failures causing whole old emails to be redownloaded, and causes the K9 app to close unexpectedly putting you back to home, and slowing whole phone including all other applications down to crawl.
apparently this issue is not high on the list
has been reported since may and is only listed as a “medium” priority while various other trivial enhancement are listed as high priority fixes.
maybe you can go to the bug listing and mark it as starred so this starts getting the attention it deserves.
go here
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=1508
any email program on a small memory device running off a distant server model should follow the danger sidekick model which basically invented the right way to do this.
you load new emails deleting old emails from the handheld device when the incoming folder reaches a certain memory threshold or email count by default selectable by the user. It should by default leave all emails on the main server too so people can go home and download same emails onto their home computer or any other device.
that’s how a 6 year old tmobile danger sidekick 2 with only 4 megs of memory handles a 1000 email a day email account beautifully and fast and MUCH better than K9 software on a more modern device with faster CPU and much more memory. (unless of course microsoft loses the whole backend database which is another story
There are some hidden menus which may help you temporarily as a cluge.
in your accounts listing (the screen where all your different email accounts show up one after another if you have multiple accounts)
hold down (don’t tap on it – hold down) on the account name. this brings up a secret menu.
go to advanced. select clear messages (danger!). (this will get ride of all emails in every folder including sent drafts etc, for this account – yes it sucks i know)
then after that ( perhaps hours later and several tries for me including turning the phone off and on a few times) then go back to your accounts listing page and again hold down on the account name to bring up the secret menu , go to advanced again , choose compact databases.
this finally worked for me although I have all my email accounts set up as the time tested, universal, backward compatible standard of pop3 with polling so if you set up as imap you may have less success.
this may or may not free up the space on your phone but of course you have lost any and all emails in all folders for that account some of which you may have wanted to save. liek I said a complete kluge solution but hey beats removing the whole software and reinstalling like others are having to do.
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=1508
by the way the idea to hold home menu in memory only works ofr a little while until K9 fills up ALL your memeory and then that causes a lot more problems.
K9 really really needs to fix this and implement a standard first in/first out email deletion standard after inbox reaches a memory or email count threshold so all this other non sense simply isn’t needed
to any app designers.
If you want to know what thins make a small memory device work look at the sidekick functionality. They have been doing it right, faster, with less memory for years and the guy who designed the danger sidekick moved to google and did the initial google android G1 so its the design model to follow.
Using K-9 on Samsung Galaxy … it’s FAR better than the native email app, BUT:
My inbox seems to keep growing, no matter how much I delete.
I have three accounts feeding into the phone. I delete, I expunge, I even go to advanced>>>clear messages … one of my accounts still hovers around 1.2 gigs, even though there are zero messages anywhere in the inbox, outbox, sent and trash folders.
I’ve seen other complaints about this around the interwebs, but no solution.
Anyone else having this issue? If so, how are you dealing with it?
I downloaded this app and finally received email, but I must have done something wrong as it will download new emails but it doesn’t maintain them – so if I check it later it brings up new messages but the messages downloaded earlier disappear – so it will not maintain any history of emails regardless of whether I have opened them or not – is this a setting issue or do I have some kind of glitch?
Hi – i recently added this app to my droid x and really like it. i can finally sort my pop3 emails!!!
I have a question…how do i get k9 to allow me to open/download attachments? I can’t seem to get it working.
Thank you!
I have installed and deleted this app at least three times and have finally decided to dump it once and for all. Someone earlier stated that it promised lots but delivered little and I have to agree. Its starts of fine but give it few days or if your lucky you may get a few weeks and then it sucks BIG TIME.
Its unreliable, unstable and ultimately becomes unusable and useless.
Its take an age to check and download mail, open attachments, send replies basically all the things its supposed to be good at, it just isn’t.
This is a pity because there is a need out there for a really good good client app, but this isn’t it.
Apart from the issues mentioned above the colour features and some of the settings although manageable and changeable the colour setting are not enough to easily discriminate between read and unread mail.
In the end, it is better than the stock app, but for the long term I don’t think K9 will satisfy users, which is really unfortunate.
Long and short of it, if you can live with the quirks of K9 once you get using it well and good. I don’t think K9 in its current format will continue to be the leader in this area if someone can develop an app that will do what the user wants it too. That is unless K9 change some of the features or at least give the user the options of being able to change the settings and options themselves and to make the changes that they want.
I totally agree – I wrote earlier that I went back to my Blackberry – because it handles email better than anything. You shouldn’t have to even use K9 – the stock email client “should” work – but a) it doesn’t (for my imap account) and b) the stock client has NO features (doesn’t even Sync).
So I am back to my old Blackberry – receiving emails flawlessly – and back to a 24 hour + battery life – instead of 6-8 hours.
I will wait for a G4 phone and try again – but will probably go with a G4 blackberry!!!
I will say though – if its the apps you want (and not so much email) the Galaxy S is a nice phone – just make sure you remain close to a power outlet…
Before installing the application, could anyone tell me if it does work over IMAPS with self-signed certificates?
TIA
Lix
K9 can receive mail from multiple inboxes, but can it send mail from multiple addresses, too?
My gripe with Gmail for Android is that I can view all of my business email, but when I reply it has to come from my personal account. Any workaround?
K9 does allow you to select what email account to send your message from.
Hi Jordy, just started using gmail again and during the setup I was able to choose whether or not I wanted to use gmail to reply or the the other email accounts/addresses I setup to be received through gmail. Seems to working fine so far. I have also tried it on my phone (HTC Desire) and the same settings appear to have been applied.
Might be worth looking at to see if you can sort this out.
Philip
Phil,
Any more info on how you got to that part of setup? My gmail app is already setup, and the only thing I can figure out how to do now is add more Google accounts.
The problem is that my work email is not a Google account, nor is it a true POP3 or IMAP server. It’s just forwarded from the domain. On a full browser, I can select what address to reply from, but I can’t do that on my phone. I receive all the mail correctly because it’s forwarded to my gmail account, but all the replies I write come from my personal address, not the work domain.
help….
someone…pleeez email me….
i cant get the sound turned off on notifications…
nothing is checked…
then al of a sudden…the check marks re appear…
help..i want NO sound…on the incoming mail
memreez@aol.com
@memreez
Go to:
Settings – Account Settings – New Mail Ringtone –
and pick the “silent” ringtone.
See if this helps.
This is an outstanding app. The problems most people see are related to problems with their lack of knowledge on setting up their email accounts. Educate yourself as to what IMAP is, what POP3 is, etc.
I had zero problem with setting it up and have had zero problem with it for the 8 months I’ve been using. It’s twice as fast as the native gmail app on my phone.
i am in K9 settings for Notifications..
i do not want to hear any sounds…when mail comes…
anything i do……
its not holding…
i still hear sounds…i want it on silent…
what am i doing wrong??????????
ive been playing for 2 days..this is crazy!
@memreez
Go to:
Settings – Account Settings – New Mail Ringtone –
and pick the “silent” ringtone.
See if this helps.
ok so i am using k-9 as a replacement to the stock gmail app(hate it) but what should my poll settings be set at so that I just automatically get new mail ?
Would appear this K9 only supports Exchange 2003 (http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/wiki/K9MailAndExchange). Bad doggie as I need Exchange 2007.
Man this was a 2 second to set my yahoo and aol accounts. Works slick as can be. So far this beats the pants off maildroid or the default email client. Keep it up
When composing an e-mail is there anyway to use the built in Android contact list? Would be nice if it worked similar to the Android e-mail package for contact lookups.
Please see last email from me minute ago. I forgot to check email me
Dave,
Are these the only settings that don’t “stick”?
I guess i don’t know how to use this interface. You responded to me a while ago about whether these were the only settings that don’t stick. I couldnt get any of the font changes to stick either
And you tried these with the same accounts on your previous device with no issue?
Yes I did. The app came on over automatically with my other apps. I did have to set up the email account again. I even tried taking the battery out after I made the change but it came back up with the old settings
Thanks; G
I couldn’t find your latest response but I tried everything including uninstalling and re installing. Same problems. Woon’t save thye new email signature either
Ay other suggestions? The annoying Droid email tone notification coming in when i am trying to sleep stinks.. thanks
Dave: I’m fresh out of suggestions. I searched through the submitted issues on K-9′s site and couldn’t find any similar issues. As of now, I would say contact the developer and see if there is a issue specifically with the Droid X.
Hi everyone,
I’ve just seen a VERY STRANGE issue: if I save a mail as draft in K9 and open my GMail account on my computer, I can see that email as sent. The mail is not really sent, but it appears to be (not easy to understand it has not been). Saving the draft more than once will show more than one “sent” email in GMail; if it is a reply, it is shown in the correct thread and it really looks as a real sent mail.
Anyone has this issue? At least a way to show these mails only in the Gmail Drafts folder and not in [IMAP]/Draft?
This is more of the default from GMail than K-9. GMail does that by default. The only other option I would consider is to set a rule in your GMail account to automatically move any messages that show up in “[IMAP]/Draft” to automatically change the the “Drafts” folder.
Here is the answer to my dilemma from google. Thank for your help
Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Task
Comment #1 on issue 2685 by cketti: Changes to font size, folder polling frequency, notification light and sound don’t stick when made
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=2685
“Settings are only saved after all settings screens were left using the back button.”
Now why couldn’t I find that?
I’m glad you found the issue. Are you enjoying K-9 more now?
Dear Jason/Or other members,
I have a samsung galaxy S phone, i tried couple of email programs even K9 one month back. My issue is, i couldn’t find a settings to download only the text contend of the emails. Attachments should not download unless you need – mean you have to download manually. since my net connection is edge and expensive in the place where i live, i like this facility.
I need the mail clint to download only the text matter and fetching the attachment has to be on instruction or by manually fetching.
is this facility is available in K9?
currently i use gmail app to pull my POP3 account. it works fine except when i send email it shows the gmail ID on behalf of the Pop3 ID.
the way gmail works is perfectly alright, fast. i love it except the above issue.
When i mean gmail i really mean gmail app and not the native android app.
awaiting your reply ASAP.
cheers
Sebyyy
Sebyyy: The only setting in K-9 that has any type of control over this issue is within the “Account Settings > Fetching Mail” menu. You can choose how much K-9 will download automatically only it’s on. The smallest amount is 32kb, which is relatively small. If you use a lot of email, even 2000 messages a month at the max size of 32kb wouldn’t be a lot of data usage. Most text-only emails are small in size (roughly 8-15kb).
Dear Jason,
ok noted.
will k9 will slow down the phone, as i receive plenty of emails with and without attachments.
How do you compare k9 and seven systems push email.
seven systems push email works perfectly well almost like BB push email.
but i feel it make the system bit slow.
appreciate your comment.
regards,
Sebyyy
In some of the previous versions, I could set my notification to give me a chime and then one vibrate pulse. With the latest release I have, I can set the vibrate to “1″ but then the next box says “repeat vibration” at a minimum of 2 vibrates.
Can I turn off the repeat vibrate somehow?
Dear Jason,
apprecite your reply.
am using galaxy S with Froyo. using POP3 email
after i read your coments and explanation i am using k9 email, and i really like the app now.
the problem i found now is the Push email is not working, when i check ed the fetching options push email option is disabled.
how to make k9 to push email instead of fetching emails manually or with time frequency.
l was using seven mail system which perfectly works like BB push email, but the phone was gettign bit slow with the seven email. so i feel if K9 can push emails like BB without any user intervention that will be great.
cheers.