sent from a mobile device On Aug 8, 2011 10:50 PM, "Craig White" <[email protected]> wrote: >-- > #1 - using POP on e-mail is just plain stupid. It's so 1990's. Get a > Gmail account and get on with your life. >
The OP is posting from a gmail account > #2 - select all functions on a phone is rather pointless since you can't > really intend to select more than your screen can display so at best you > could delete 4 or 5 My previous 3 phones (including this pos Android I am writing from right now) could view at least 10 on a screen and select all is very useful for marking all read as well as managing. > > #3 - this is at best a feature of nominal significance since the only > people who would want to actually do this are people who don't have > another means to manage this e-mail (i.e., a computer). > There are four laptops, two desktops and three servers in my house. All of these are capable of checking email. I also think this ability to "select all" would be a nice feature. Just because it would be convienient. It was always a feature on my windows mobile phones (curtosey of an independent developer whose inbox extender plugin was wildly popular), so naturally I'd like to see it on my spiffy new android. In fact, it probably is a feature on one of the market email clients. Ill have to look into that when I get a chance, but the OP may want to do a market search himself and see what sort of options turn up. I think k-9 mail is a good candidate as it would be easyiest to add to if not default since it's open source. > #4 - screen real estate on a smartphone is at a real premium and to > surrender any of it for check boxes in a multi-select UI doesn't make a > whole lot of sense. Perhaps a tablet version where the screen real > estate isn't in such short supply. Google's own gmail apps comes with checkmarks on the side. My screen still displays 9 emails. > > What I am suggesting is that the e-mail application isn't actually the > problem but your reliance upon to be a primary methodology of retrieving > e-mails via antiquated protocols and methods is. > > Craig Tell me about it. Checking email on your phone is so 2008. :-) But I do know there are a few ISP providers around here that only offer pop with some of their plans. Although we could debate the antiquity of the protocol, if that is what someone has, its what they have. And really, changing from pop to imap doesn't have much to do with being able to "select all". For what it is worth, at least with gmail, one of the reasons select all is not an option I think is due to the fact that it dynamically continues to load more messages as the page is scrolling down. But there is probably a more pertinent reason since it always seem to be lacking in default mail apps. Maybe because "nobody wants that feature" really is the reason... but that is not my opinion. Cheers, ~chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
