Thanks for your answer Seth, Actually IMAP has absolutely nothing of interest to me. Letting alone privacy issues, I want to have all my email base locally in order to be able to *efficiently* work on my email archives even when no internet connection is active. There is nothing in POP3 that would prevent me to check my email with my phone without disturbing anything on the server. If it doesn’t work it must be a bug somewhere, and I suspect this kind of bug not to be completely unwanted by their authors. I think we are forced into remote storage for advertising purposes and with no real reward for us.
Same remark about gmail’s webmail, with the added inconvenience of its interface which I find terrible and counterproductive. I use about ten email addresses, and for me it’s so much more convenient to operate them all from one desktop client with local storage without having to tell Google about any of them. Cheers, On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 6:55:44 PM UTC+2, Seth Holmes wrote: > > On 5/18/15 11:09 AM, Alexandre Oberlin wrote: > > Thanks Giangi and John for your replies. I was not notified of them, > that’s > > why I reply only now. > > > > I don’t feel very much like switching to IMAP because I fear to lose the > > little amount of control I still have on my email. > > IMAP provides more control, not less. Checking mail from multiple > locations > with POP3 is unreliable at best. Inefficient at its worst. > > > > > > > Your suggested solutions have always been in effect: > > 1. I always leave messages on server in the K9 and also in the stock > Android > > mail app (still used on another phone). > > 2. "Mark as read when opened" is unchecked in K9. > > 3. Leaving messages on server in the computer’s email clients settings > does > > not help. However it seems that I get different behaviours when using > > different clients on computer. > > 4. Gmail is set not to mark messages as read when downloaded by an email > client. > > > > Yet if I open messages on K9 or stock app, I won’t be able to download > them > > later. The only way to retrieve them locally is to go to Gmail on the > web and > > forward them to myself. > > > > I am so tired of all this showoff outside an amateurship inside software > > programs... (commercial ones included). > > Why not just use the stock GMail client? Gmail is kind of a custom IMAP > implementation, and if your e-mail is filed into folders, you'll never get > them with POP3. > > > > > -- > Seth H Holmes > http://www.route-fu.net/ > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
