------------ Original Message ------------
> Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 11:57:05 -0400
> From: Seth Holmes <[email protected]>
>
> On 3/19/15 6:37 PM, Richard wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> ------------ Original Message ------------
>>> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015 18:02:11 -0400
>>> From: Seth Holmes <[email protected]>
>>> 
>>> So, I've noticed a few folks use K-9 for their gMail accounts as
>>> well as others. I have a mail server I manage for myself for
>>> which I use K-9. But I also have a gMail account and for that I
>>> use the native gMail client.
>>> 
>>> Primary features I need are similar. But I'm curious as to why
>>> people prefer the K-9 client to access their gMail account over
>>> the native gMail application.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Seth H Holmes
>>> [email protected]
>> 
>> I do it in part for convenience -- I have all my mail accounts,
>> regardless of server location, set up in one app. I also like the
>> control and flexibility that K-9 gives, even over gmail accounts.
>> E.g., with the gmail client I don't believe that you can control
>> whether deleting a message on the client will delete it on the
>> server or not. Lastly, I refuse to send messages with html parts
>> (don't get me started on html signatures with logos), and I don't
>> believe you can control that with a native gmail client -- it
>> sends (resource wasting) text/html multi-part messages
>> automatically.
> 
> 
> Excellent points. I hadn't really thought of the HTML portion of
> the e-mails being sent. Although I'm not certain that *not*
> sending it through the gMail client will actually prevent gMail
> from adding them.
> 
>> 
>> I did find that you have to make certain that gmail doesn't
>> "auto-folderize" your mail. If you let it do that (I believe in
>> conjunction with their "inbox" app) new mail won't be in your
>> gmail inbox so K-9 won't be able find it.
>> 
> 
> Yeah, I disabled Inbox. It was nearly forced on me at work but
> it's worse for work e-mail than for personal.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> -- 
> Seth H Holmes
> [email protected]

Using a properly configured (html turned off under the sending
configuration) K-9 "gmail" account instance and sending a message
"from" gmail (i.e., using the gmail account as the "From:" and to
authenticate and dropping it on the google mail server) results in a
text-only message being delivered. The gmail MTA doesn't add an html
part -- that's generally done in/by the MUA.

My one enhancement wish for K-9 is that it would let me prioritize
which part of a text/html multipart message it displays as the
default when I open a message.

By the way, I can't remember ever having problems with (properly
formatted) URLs in messages -- even ones like "www. ...", that are
lacking the protocol.


   - Richard


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