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K9 not showing all mails in unified inbox

I noticed recently that K9 is showing emails in individual folders, but no longer in the Unified Inbox. That still exists but has had no new entry in the last few weeks. I have changed nothing in ...
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how to always ask password in k-9 email app android

I have installed K9-mail in my android phone and mapped my 2 email accounts. When I open the K9-mail app, it opens without asking the email account password. But I want to make the settings to always ...
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Reload IMAP folder list in K-9 mail

Recently I changed the folder structure of my E-Mail account, actually merging a lot of them. K-9 didn't realize the changes. It neither added new new folders nor removed those, no longer existing. ...
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Is it possible to use multiple accounts from one email address in K9 application?

In the company I work for We would like to use one general email address, but different accounts. Is it possible to do that?
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Audio file opened by itself?

This morning I woke up to the alarm on my phone, as I snoozed it I noticed that the Total Commander player had a notification open, with an audio file open but on hold. When I tapped on play I got ...
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K9 suddenly wants to encrypt all mail, and won't send any

Obviously, I have inadvertently changed some setting, but can’t figure out what. I use K9 with 6 accounts, none of which have previously used encryption (I would prefer to – my correspondents wouldn’...
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What is the best practice to deal with suspected malware infections in Lineage/Android?

I have reason to believe that my Lineage OS (14.1-20180620 nightly build) may be infected with malware. How should I deal with this? Other questions recommend running Malwarebytes. A question asking ...
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Using K9 with Gmail?

I need/want to use K9 to check a gmail account. I have two factor auth set up so I'm using an app password to sign in, but it keeps getting rejected, and then I get this error in my Gmail inbox: ...
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Locate Mails of k9-mail

Unfortuantely I lost mails on my Desktop and I'm now trying to restore them from my phone. k9-mail shows them all, but I can't find an mbox file or something similar to reimport them into Thundebird. ...
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K-9 Mail - Pushing mail only when interacting with app needed

With K-9 Mail, could you please advise if it is possible to have these mail fetching settings: 1) Polling every hour, both when interacting with the app and when running in the background. but also: ...
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K9Mail doesn't replicate Hotmail / Outlook.com folder structure

I have switched from the Gmail app to K9Mail yesterday because I needed multi-folder sync. However, I'm having trouble replicating the folder contents from my Hotmail account in K9Mail, a problem I ...
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Decrease the text size or button size in notifications area

I'm using Samsung Galaxy S6 running Android Lollipop. As you see in this picture, there is a button "Reply" (Svara) and then a button "Mark as read" (Markera som L...). But the ...
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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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Unable to accept SSL certificate (k9mail)

I am setting up k9mail on a 4.2 device (rooted Sony Xperia Mini Pro with stock ROM and crap removed) and it complains about the IMAP SSL certificate not being valid. This happens with both a self-...
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K-9 Mail not working with Openkeychain

K-9 does not seem to find the installed Openkeychain app. OKC works fine and so does K-9 except for this problem. Both programs have been installed from F-Droid and are the the latest version. I am ...
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K-9 Mail: Search in Message

I use K-9 Mail for Android. Recently I tried to search for text in a (rather long) email, but could not find any possibility to do so. Long-pressing the menu button results in a search field, which ...
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Is K-9 Mail susceptible to MITM attacks?

I am using K-9 Mail on Android and have set the SSL option to 'SSL (strict)'. My understanding is that with this option K-9 definitely requires a valid SSL certificate which is issued by a trusted CA,...
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How to setup K9 Mail properly for free email services offering multiple aliases for same email box?

Tried Googling for a lot of results but did not find any that can show how to setup email accounts that offer using multiple email aliases to users on same email. I am talking mainly about Outlook.com ...
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K9: Marked all mails as read by mistake

Today I discovered the "Mark all as read" function in K9. I was not very happy to find out, that it marks all mail in my inbox as read even the ones currently not shown on the screen. Naturally now ...
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How to access /storage/emulated/0/ from PC?

I want to export the settings of the K9 mail app. This app exports a settings file to /storage/emulated/0/com.fsck.k9/settings-4.k9s. But if I connect my Nexus 4 to my PC I cannot see such a file or ...
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K9-Mail keep email open

When switching back to k9 mail using the app-icon on the homescreen, a previously displayed email is going to be closed and the list of emails is going to be displayed instead. This doesn't happen ...
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How do I setup a Gmail account with 2-step verification in K-9 Mail?

I'm trying to setup my Gmail account in K-9 Mail, but when I'm setting up the incoming server, I keep getting the error: "Wrong username or password". When I'm trying to set up an outgoing server, I ...
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K9-Mail does not detect PGP encrypted mail automatically

I have a bit of a problem with PGP and K9-Mail on my Galaxy S3. I'm using the GPG Mail plugin on my computer (Mac OS X 10.8) and can read and write mails just perfectly. Today I decided to setup PGP ...
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Reply to messages in K-9 mail without going through the menu

In K-9 (latest version on Google Play, 4.403), is there a way to either: Add a Reply/Reply-All button to the bottom of the message details view A gesture to Reply/Reply-All in the message details ...
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K9 doesn't like my SSL cert

My mail provider recently updated their SSL certificate and now I'm getting errors in K9 mail when I try to test my server information: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: error:...
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All emails under K9 -app?

Android requires at least one-working Gmail that is apparently tied to the default email. Now I would like to have that email under K9 but I cannot because Android instructs me to hard-reset my device ...
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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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Problems accessing message logs on Jelly Bean with aLogcat

Summary I have been having problems accessing the K9 log messages using aLogcat, see below for more details. What I would like to know is: Why are no log messages from K9 appearing in the aLogcat ...
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How can I set up email (mostly yahoo) so that no matter which device I delete an email on, it will be deleted on the other?

I finally switched to Android from Apple, and I've tried setting the email account as both premium and not, and it either stays independent when deleted (not deleted on the server), or it's just ...
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Notification snoozes alarm?

Found a pretty interesting feature/bug from the combination of K-9 Mail and the stock Alarm app on my Galaxy S (rooted + Darky's Rom 10.2, 2.3.4). This morning, just as the alarm started to ring, I ...
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K-9 Email App Not Finding All Folders - Labels/Folders

Quick question, I have a problem in that my K-9 mail application is not finding any of my Google Mail IMAP folders/labels. Now I can send and receive messages without problem, however I'm curious as ...
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If I try a new email client like K9-mail, can I go back to my original email just by uninstalling it?

Before I try something I cannot easily reverse ( and to confirm something I think I already know the answer for ): if I install another email client ( like K9-mail ) on my Samsung phone of even more ...
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How can I display image formats not supported by the email app, e.g. TIFF?

As I'm using K-9 Mail for my email app, sometimes I get a tiff attached to the mail, but I cannot watch it. Even Tiff2PDF will fail :(. Any idea how I can get this to work?
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