Comments on: K9 Mail

By: bikeman

bikeman — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:23:58 +0000

Recently this app has refused to start and I get ‘The application K-9 mail (process.comfsck.k9) has stopped unexpectedly’.

Tried updating and problem persists.

The suggested solution to delete data and setup accounts again is not acceptable. If I do that I may as well install an alternative app.

Shame that the developer does not care to fix. In fairness it’s probably not his fault but more likely a result of Google’s continuous development (read tinkering and breaking).

One day Google will realise that the agile development model is a crock of s&*t and just leads to a poor customer experience.

Andriod? Never again for me.

By: Android Tapp

Android Tapp — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:34:48 +0000

Thanks for the help DMike92! Will let you know how it goes.

By: DMike92

DMike92 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:51:46 +0000

To know the secifications of the ISP you’re trying to use, go on the Internet and type smtp
For example : smtp bell

By: DMike92

DMike92 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:39:48 +0000

Hi Antonio,

Messages impossible to send deals with the smtp server. As long as you dont have a new address mail, pop server will remain good.

So there are 2 possible reasons :
1) If this is a new account, K9 wants to make Push mode. If you dont want and specify smtp, K9 will configure it ‘secure’ with a specific port number. Try ‘no secure’ and use normal port (25).
2) If you’re out somewhere (not at home), it is possible that you may have to change smtp server to accomadate the curent one you are trynig to use instead of the the one you use at home.

Hope this helps
Michel

By: Antonio Wells

Antonio Wells — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:10:39 +0000

Hey folks, I’m trying to get a solution for a visitor:

Can you help…I have been using K9 for about 3mos now with 3 email accounts (one Gmail and two Pop3) and it has been working great. Out of no where one of the pop3 just stops sending emails. I get the emails but now when sending I keep getting this “550 Permanent Failure”. I have checked to confirm my in and out ports as well. How do I fix this???? Very, very frustrating to say the least. I have deleted and re-installed the app 4x and the same results.

Any help?

By: hcook

hcook — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:06:02 +0000

Droid 3 phone with K9 mail – have questions…how to import contact names and how to set phone to not automatically open next email.

By: DMike92

DMike92 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:47:49 +0000

The next mail does not open automatically unless you do something !
Are you talking about next mail opening when you delete the curent one ?

If so, there is a setting to tell K9 to do differently (2nd line after ‘general options’).

By: hcook

hcook — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:46:23 +0000

new user to K9 mail. How do I set droid phone to open email on K9 – one at a time and not automatically open the next email.
Thanks.

By: jwikert

jwikert — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:51:40 +0000

I think you’re referring to the ability to preview the first line or two of a message and I’m talking about something different. If you and I have an email exchange consisting of, say, 3 messages/replies from each of us, that’s a thread of 6 messages. Right now it looks like the K-9 app simply shows each of those 6 segments in chronological order. And since I get messages from other people throughout the day, those are mixed in as well. I’m looking for a way to consolidate all those 6 segments together in my inbox. So they’re collapsed into one message, I touch it and it expands to all 6 segments. I don’t see an option for that, so now those 6 segments are spread out across my inbox with other messages in between them. Does that help clarify my question?

By: DMike92

DMike92 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:15:06 +0000

Yes, if I understand you right.
When you open KMail, I think the two first lines are what you are looking for (at least the second one) and the following lines shows you all you accounts.

Click on the second line, and you should see all you mails from all your accounts.

Sorry for the typos on the previous post (which can be deleted)

By: DMike92

DMike92 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:09:58 +0000

Yes, if I understand tou right.
When you open KMail, I think the two first lines are what you are looking for (at least the second one) and the following lines shows you all you accounts.

Click on the second line, ans you should see all you mails from all your accounts.

By: jwikert

jwikert — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:58:55 +0000

Is there some way to organize inbox messages by thread? I’d like to collapse all related/threaded messages but I don’t see an option for that. Surely it’s a feature of K-9, right?

By: Antonio Wells

Antonio Wells — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:34:09 +0000

Nicely done

By: pastvne

pastvne — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:22:04 +0000

I use droid 2 with K9 and Thunderbird and had the same issue since I have about 80 folders on my imap server.

Ideally, filtering should be done on the imap server but when I could not do that, I resorted to T-bird’s filtering engine to do the work. Here is how.

I setup my filtering rule but then added to each one the additional criteria “status” isn’t “new”.

What happens then is that I leave my t-bird client on then if I touch a message from the droid and the status becomes other than new (ie., read), then the next time t-bird runs filters, it handles the placement of the message into the correct directory. I like this even on my t-bird client because all of my messages come into ‘inbox’ then once I read then, on the next filter cycle, they are placed into their respective inboxes. I makes it handy from my droid so that I see all of my messages in INBOX first then once I deal with the message, it files itself away in the desired place. Hope that tip may be useful.