Questions tagged [imap]
IMAP is a protocol for e-mail retrieval, which offers many advantages over the Post Office Protocol (POP). IMAP is short for Internet message access protocol.
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Android mail client not deleting emails on IMAP server
I have a new Samsung Galaxy S2 SkyRocket and the native mail program doesn't delete my IMAP mail from my server. When I view my mail on my PC, I'm still seeing the emails I deleted on the phone.
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How does the gmail Android App compare to the Webmail experience when using multiple gmail accounts?
This is a "pre-sales" question as I don't currently have an Android device. I did try out one when Android was version 1.6, but was dissappointed. I am interested to know if 2.2 or 2.3 is better.
In ...
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E-mails sent from Android not syncing to IMAP "Sent" folder
I'm using the stock e-mail app of Android 4.1 (Motorola razr i), and when I send a mail from the phone, the mail app afterwards shows the sent mail in the "Sent" folder, but it seems that folder is ...
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How can I browse old mails in an IMAP folder?
Both the build-in mail client (Android 2.1) and K-9 mail, display the most recent n messages received during the last m days, where m and n are configuration items. Messages older than m days are ...
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Change IMAP folder subscriptions on default email client
I've set up an IMAP account in the default email client (android 2.2.1), and have added and removed some folders on the IMAP folder. How do I change the android email settings to subscribe to these ...
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Change default IMAP folders
On my HTC Evo 3D, my IMAP email account is using Trash folder for it's deleted items. My web mail AND my Windows Live Mail on my PC, using IMAP, is using Deleted Items folder. Can I change my phone to ...
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How can I search for emails on an IMAP (or exchange) server? [closed]
Is there an app that can search emails by subject, sender or body text through the IMAP4 protocol?
Alternatively, is there an app that caches the email headers for all messages and searches them ...
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How do I sync all mail folders on my HTC Desire?
The mail application only synchronizes the inbox, both for IMAP and Exchange accounts.
I auto-sort my mail into folders at the server and need to see all folders in the phone to not miss any e-mails.
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Jelly Bean IMAP, Couldn't open connection to server
Well, finally got my Nexus 7. Set up all the basics and hit a pretty big roadblock, the email account setup for IMAP simply won't work.
Just to clarify, I'm absolutely certain all the details I've ...
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HTC One X IMAP marking emails as read
I've synced my yahoo account to my HTX one X's mail client using IMAP which syncs regularly every 15 minutes, however if i've not looked at the phone for a while the email will mark itself as read and ...
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Firm Gmail, i.e. Google Apps -email, with K9 -email program?
I am struggling with this kind of Google Apps -site, example from Google.com -site here.
I use two email-clients in Android: default Gmail -client (because it is tied to my Gmail) and K9. I am ...
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IMAP email is always delayed
I've got the oddest problem with the built in email client. I've got an account that connects to a POP3 server that works fine. I've got another account that connects to an IMAP server, and the ...
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How to place replies in the same folder as the original message on the IMAP email app?
Messages that I reply to from my phone are placed in the "Sent" folder. Is it possible to configure the Email App to place replies in the same folder as the original message. Using galaxy S3, Android ...
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Gmail app only partially syncing
I've just bought a Lenovo B phone with Android.
I've added my Gmail account and have enabled the Gmail sync in the phone's settings. It has downloaded all my emails, however it won't properly sync ...
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Android stock mail app does not retrieve IMAP mails
Last week my native Android mail client stopped retrieving mail. It can still send mail. An identically configured K-9 mail app does retrieve email. The server is a dovecot mail server, both ...
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How to set up Google Apps Gmail on an Android -phone? [duplicate]
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Firm Gmail, i.e. Google Apps -email, with K9 -email program?
I have this kind of firm url, https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/firm.com. I want to have an IMAP -email account on ...
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Email App: How to select a subset of IMAP folders to subscribe to?
I would like to set up my email client to subscribe to only a couple of the tens of folders in my work IMAP account. I can't seem to find an option to subscribe/unsubscribe folders in the Android ...
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E-mail (imap client) sync stopped because of low memory, and will not start again, even after freeing 60Mb
I have a Motorola XT303 running Android 2.3.6, and I use the email client (with an IMAP server). The email worked fine until two days ago: I tried to download an application that was too large for the ...
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Mail app stuck at "in progress"
I'm trying to configure the mail app in Android 4/ICS with my IMAP account, but I get stuck at "in progress" after setting up the SMTP server.
These are the exact steps I'm going through:
Open the ...
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How to get past Google blocking gmail smtp access?
I have a google account that I want to log into from the Gmail App of and android device. I ONLY want gmail, not hangouts, drive, etc. So I am trying to add the account as a standard email address ...
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How can I configure the Email app not to save sent messages on the Google server using IMAP?
Device: Nexus 4
Android: 4.2.2
I am using the default (stock) Android Email app, not the Gmail app. The reason being that there is no option to turn off conversation view.
I am trying to follow ...
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Does Android use a VPN in background when connecting to Exchange?
i use Android 2.3.6 stock. I am new to Android.
At work we have a MS Small Business server, it has Exchange for e-mail.
With my laptop (Thunderbird), i can only connect to IMAP if i have a VPN ...
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Why an android device overwrites the header named message-ID?
I do not understand why android devices (I think mobiles devices in general) overwrite the mail header named message-ID. I need to pass some parameters through this header to build threads but each ...
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How to fix Gmail that won't get new messages from IMAP server
My wife has a cheap oangcc android tablet bought from Amazon.
She uses it to check her email on Google, and on a local Cyrus-
IMAP server.
It has worked fine for years, but now won't collect new mail ...
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Unable to archive IMAP email with GMail app
I'm using the Gmail app on a Pixel 2 running Android 10. I'm connecting to a private IMAP server (despite the app name, "Gmail" is a general-purpose mail client, not just for Google Mail).
How can I ...
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Samsung stock email application won't show "sent" email on phone (using Gmail account)
I use a Samsung Galaxy S III and I use the stock Samsung email application and widget (which also comes stock on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2).
I have four Gmail accounts linked to my phone and I have all ...
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Disable repeating email sign in error notification
When there are problems with IMAP server that I'm using, email app makes a notification every few seconds or minutes (inbox check frequency is set to every hour):
Couldn't sign in which leads to ...
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Email accounts suddenly disappear from Samsung stock client
I have a Samsung Galaxy S, rooted with ClockworkMod a good while ago. Since about two months, my imap accounts spontaneously disappear from the Samsung stock email.
When launched, the email app asks ...
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Does the default email app support IMAP?
Does the default email app in Android 2.2 support IMAP rather than just POP?
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Email app with HTC mail feel?
Is there email app that has the HTC mail feel? HTC mail blocks cryptographically signed messages, which I finally figured out today. Is there some replacement besides K9?
It is for phones that are ...
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Disable Gmail app swipe to delete for IMAP account
The Gmail default action swipe to archive make sense for Google accounts.
Now, when I added a normal IMAP account, the swipe action is defaulted to delete, which is dangerous.
Are there any way to ...
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How to edit/send a previously sent gmail message as a new one on Android?
Something well known to be unsupported on the official gmail.com website and official app.
The typical answer in that case, is go on Microsoft Windows to install an imap client like Thunderbird which ...
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Android Outlook IMAP: Microsoft account interference in configuration
I have various IMAP accounts which all work fine both from Outlook on Windows and from MailDroid, Thunderbird, Samsung Email, Windows 10 Mail, etc.
One particular email address gives a login error ...
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Android Outlook over IMAP is logging in from Microsoft servers
Using Microsoft Outlook app for Android I could not add an Outlook-IMAP account on some Android tablet for some customer. However, it was no problem to add the same IMAP account to the GMail App, or ...
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End-to-End Encryption IMAP client
I recently discovered that Outlook for Android uses an intermediate server for IMAP connections, meaning that:
mail is accessed in plain-text by a third-party
credentials are known in plain-text by a ...
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Android Gmail App deleted my email when I swipe left on a IMAP email account
Swipe left to archive works when my account type is Gmail account.
However, I've added an IMAP account (non-Gmail), the default swipe left action is now delete instead of archive, and I find no way ...
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HTC Mail: Move Messages Between Folders, Not Synced on IMAP Server
I'm seeing some odd behavior on Android...running 2.2 on HTC Incredible.
I have an IMAP account configured through the built in "Mail" program. First of all, when you send messages from this program,...
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Samsung Email: IMAP folders not syncing correctly
The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and the mail app is Samsung Email version 6.1.75.0. I have created folders on my Android mail app and moved email into them. These folders are not syncing ...
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Cannot delete IMAP/POP3 account added to Gmail app
Any nonstandard way to delete an IMAP/POP3 account added via Gmail App, when System Settings do have not the "remove account" option?
Seems my manufacturer (Xiaomi) has made something wrong ...
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How do I have IMAP delete Email inbox item when deleting on the server?
If I have an email in my Android Email inbox and I delete it on the server inbox, it will not delete from my phone. If I delete it on the phone, it will delete it on the server. I originally set it ...
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Android IMAP client with working search option
OK, so far I've tried Gmail, K-9 and BlueMail email clients. I can correctly setup my IMAP server, and I'm able to send and receive emails.
The problem is when I try to search for an old email I ...
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IMAP forwarding show IP address to Google servers?
I use K-9 Mail app on my phone, and sync my gmail via IMAP.
My question is: Do google servers see my IP address when checking/sending mail?
I am pretty sure that if I used the gmail app they would ...
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Setting up an IMAP e-mail, need help
I am trying to link my college e-mail to my android phone. I have all the info for the IMAP server and Port but when it says "Checking incoming server setting" it comes back with a box that says "...
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Some Emails Not Pushed to Gmail App
I have 2 accounts within Outlook 2007 - work email through Microsoft Exchange and a Gmail IMAP account. I have a rule set where email sent to the work account will also be copied to the Inbox of the ...
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Email application not displaying message bodies
Below is a picture of the problem one of my users is having on their VZW Motorola Droid RAZR running ICS. The picture (click to enlarge) is a screenshot of the default email application configured to ...
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Problems connecting to IMAP email account on 3G/4G
Ever since I got the JRO03O OTA from Verizon on my Galaxy Nexus, I've been having problems retrieving email over a 3G/4G connection. After the sync times out (I assume it times out, because it takes ...
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Does the ICS Email app allow you to get notifications on folders other than inbox?
I have set on a IMAP account on my ICS android. I have some of the mails filtered to go to different folders. Is it possible to receive notifications the other folders? It is annoying, when I read ...
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Email client not talking proper IMAP? Unfriendly to other clients
The stock email client in Android 4.2.2 and Thunderbird 17 on my computers do not like each other. I’m syncing against an IMAP server. (I control the server.) These are my problems:
• Android puts ...
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Email-client with Sent emails from many emails under IMAP?
I am struggling to set up graphical email-client program in Debian, more here and here. I have a similar problem with Android. I would like to see Sent -emails in my android phone. How can I see my ...
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gmail does not show messages in outlook -- install as imap?
I have a OnePLus 7 (not Pro) and use the Outlook app for certain reasons (work).
Because I don't want multiple mail programs if I can avoid it, I always had my Gmail account in there which always ...
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