Android mail client

[snowdog]

Hello,

My dad keeps complaining about the slow refresh speed of the built in mail client of his Note 4 and how his HTC one was faster with receiving mails and keeps ranting about how he's missing mails instead of replying to them within a few minutes.

What mail client do you guys recommend:

- Must refresh every 2 minutes at tops, prefferably every 1 minute on wifi, every 5 minutes tops on 4g or so.
- Easy to use interface, single mailbox for 9 ( or more) email accounts prefferably.
- Easy to switch between mail accounts on the ''from'' when replying.
- For use with pop3 mailboxes, imap is not important ( must leave copys on server anyhow)

Interface wise, an app that requires as few click as possible to do as much as possible.

Which email client do you guys recommend ? Prefferably free but willing to pay if it's good.

 

[Muska]

Doesn't Gmail let you add other accounts now?

I had a business one and yahoo along with 2 Gmail accounts all through the app before I started using Inbox.

I'm not sure on the total it allows though or that you can set the refresh time so quickly if Push is not supported.

 

[snowdog]

Yes, that's not what he wants though, besides, adding other accounts to gmail only adds extra time and potiential slowdown.

Ideally a mail should be pushed/on his phone within 60 seconds of it coming in on the mailbox.

It must not be possible that he comes to his pc and sees 10 new mails, while the phone hasn't pushed them yet. Which often happens now...

 

[Orcvader]

Yes, that's not what he wants though, besides, adding other accounts to gmail only adds extra time and potiential slowdown.

Gmail needs this app to work with push sync: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...ge-services-6-5-1520254-android-apk-download/

After installing that, force stop Gmail in the app settings, then reopen the app.

Readd the non-Gmail accounts with the new exchange option, and it will sync the emails via push which syncs as soon as the email arrives, instead of IMAP/POP3 which only syncs at a certain interval.

Another question, what services are the emails using? (eg Outloo, Yahoo, etc).

 

[spacedskunk]

I used to use K-9 mail before the Gmail app opened up to other email providers, it was a brilliant app and you could get it to push emails whenever you wanted. Highly recommend, although I have to admit it is very raw, requires some setting up. Once setup though it has a unified mailbox for all addresses, alongside a folder-like setup to go between them all.

 

[benjo]

I used to use Gmail for Imap accounts, but now I use K9. The main reason is that K9 lets you reply to mail from different accounts, Gmail doesn't. Also K9 also seems to sync my folders a lot faster than Gmail did.