Sekedar meluruskan aja... Kalau artikelnya dibaca bener... dia bukannya bilang K-9 lebih bagus daripada GMail... Tapi K-9 lebih bagus dari pada e-mail client Android.
Dia justru bilang, kalau dibanding GMail yang di Android. Email Client di Android itu kayak "warga kelas dua". Jadi nggak sebanding. Nah, si K-9 ini bisa setara dengan GMail client. Pengalaman sendiri: Dulu pake email client built-in untuk cek email kantor. Sekarang switch ke K-9. Memang jauh lebih menyenangkan. Tapi lupa apa aja yang bikin aku switch. Udah lama banget sih. best regards, Bayu 2011/1/24 Herry Purnawan <[email protected]> > sumber : http://sns.ly/Jvbjy7 > > > Excellent K-9 mail app for Android keeps your messages on a leash > By Ryan Paul <http://arstechnica.com/author/ryan-paul/> | Last updated about > 2 hours ago > [image: Excellent K-9 mail app for Android keeps your messages on a > leash] > > Google's conventional e-mail client for Android has always felt like a > second-class citizen compared to the company's GMail application. It has a > very limited user interface, lacks basic features like support for moving > messages between folders, and isn't particularly reliable. Google has been > slow to address the program's weaknesses and doesn't seem to notice most of > the complaints. > > Fortunately, there is a good third-party fork called K-9. It's not > particularly pretty, but it's highly functional and well-maintained. K-9 is > based on Google's original Android mail client and is similarly distributed > under the open source Apache license, but it's got a whole pile of > additional features. > > K-9 supports IMAP IDLE for push messaging. It also gives the user > fine-grained control over push and polling message retrieval behavior, with > various configuration options that can be set per account and per folder. It > also gives you a bit more control over notifications, including the option > to have a separate notification tone for each account. You can also > configure a "quiet time" range during which you don't want any intrusive > notifications. > > The K-9 message list view is a lot more sophisticated and configurable than > that of the default mail client. You can, for example, configure it to show > a short excerpt of the message text. You can also hide the selection > checkboxes and the star icon that is used to mark favorite messages. When > the checkbox is hidden, you can still select a message for a batch operation > by dragging it to the right in the list view—making the checkbox appear > temporarily. > > You can individually adjust the font size of many different user interface > elements across the account list, folder lists, message lists, and the > messages themselves. There are also several different options for the date > format that shows up in the message views. K-9 has two different "themes" > which basically allow the user to choose between a light color scheme and a > dark color scheme. > > K-9 offers a rich set of sorting options that you can use to control how > items are ordered in the message list. For example, you can have it organize > messages by sender or sort so that unread items show up at the top. Another > nice advantage of K-9 is its built-in search feature, which can be accessed > by hitting the physical search button on your Android device. Search queries > appear to match against message text in addition to subject and sender > fields. > > There are a number of much-needed message management features in K-9 that > aren't supported in Google's client. You can move or copy messages to other > folders, filter to find other messages from a particular sender, or flag a > message as spam to have it moved to the spam folder that you have configured > for the account. The message view in K-9 is also a bit more functional. For > example, it has an option that will let you view the full header for a > message. > > In addition to the excellent feature set, K-9 also has superior performance > compared to the default mail client. It seems to handle IMAP message loading > more efficiently and doesn't exhibit the kind of responsiveness issues I had > with Google's e-mail client. > > Although K-9 fills almost all of the gaps in Android's native e-mail > functionality, there is still room for improvement. Its most notable > weakness is its lack of support for message threading. It doesn't provide a > way to group related messages into conversations. > Conclusion > > The general mediocrity of Google's first-party Android applications > continues to disappoint us. It's good that the third-party developer > community has stepped up to address the platform's limitations with better > software and a more responsive approach to filling in feature gaps. > > Even though K-9 is a derivative of Google's mail client and is developed > under the same license, Google is unfortunately not open to merging large > patches<http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/22a120d501fb7475/53623aa29d4bc1fd> > or > complex enhancements from K-9. > > It's understandable for Google to have a more rigorous code review process > and want new functionality submitted in more manageable bite-sized chunks. > It's also easy to understand why some of the more gearhead-centric features > in K-9 aren't desirable for inclusion in the standard e-mail client. Those > issues aside, there are some critically important bits of underlying mail > management functionality in K-9 that are desperately needed upstream. > > There is no conceivable reason to explain why Google isn't adopting that > code from K-9 to make the Android mail experience better. It's disappointing > that Google's lack of transparent and inclusive development has forced the > community to collaborate around a fork while the upstream client has > languished and practically become abandonware. > > The latest stable version of K-9 is available for installation from the > Android Market. You can also download installable packages of more recent > builds from the K-9 download > page<http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/downloads/list>. > The K-9 source code can be obtained from a public subversion > repository<http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/source/checkout> hosted > on Google Code. > > > Gimana menurut para pengguna K-9 ? > > -- > i had a dream > > -- > =============== > "Indonesian Android Community [id-android]" > > HTC Android Phone with HTC Sense and HTCsense.com > http://www.htc.com/DesireHD/ > --------------------- > ID Android Developer > http://groups.google.com/group/id-android-dev > --------------------- > Toko Gila Original Surabaya > Email: [email protected] Ph. 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