> Date: Saturday, December 26, 2015 19:23:47 -0800
> From: "George C." <[email protected]>
>
> On Saturday, 26 December 2015 20:53:55 UTC+2, Richard wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Date: Saturday, December 26, 2015 09:50:39 -0800
>> > From: "George C." <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>> >
>> > I started using K-9 today. I have connected my 3 accounts on
>> > K-9 (2 hotmails, 1 gmail). Didn't do any manually setup to
>> > link them, just in the normal way.
>> > However I have noticed that I don't receive any notifications
>> > from hotmail, gmail works fine. When I receive an email to
>> > gmail, the notification on my phone immediately pops up. But
>> > when I receive an email to my 2 hotmails, nothing happens
>> > unless I will open the K-9 and will manually refresh/sync to
>> > check if there are new notifications.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to make to receive hotmail notifications? I
>> > know that the "Folder poll frequency" can do that, however
>> > it's pretty annoying to see every minute "Checking mail:..."
>> > in my notification bar on my phone so I wanna know if there
>> > is any other way. If I set it to every minute, will it
>> > consume more battery usage?
>> >
>> > Also one question for security, is K-9 a server based mail
>> > client? I mean, are my credentials being stored on K-9
>> > servers?
>>
>> It appears that your hotmail account has to be set up as
>> "exchange", rather than standard imap/pop in order to get mail
>> push. K-9 does support exchange as a setup option, but I don't
>> know how K-9 handles hotmail on the default setup, so you should
>> check. You may need to do a manual setup for your hotmail
>> account(s).
>>
>> There are no "K-9 servers". Your mail account credentials are
>> stored in the K-9 client on your mobile device, and the K-9
>> client interacts directly with your configured mail provider's
>> servers. Make certain that you use appropriate locking/device
>> encryption.
>>
>>
>>
> What do you mean by appropriate locking/device encryption? Use
> lockscreen with a password/pattern on my phone? Use some settings
> from K-9 or extra security for emails? I have Google
> Authenticator enabled for all my emails but I created app
> passwords (both for gmail and hotmail) because apparently
> authenticators don't work on K-9 so I had to create app passwords
> to gain access to my emails with K-9. I don't know if it's secure
> to use app passwords.
>
> However there is one more problem I have. At hotmails only again.
> When I try to delete an email, it's just get deleted on my phone,
> if I will connect to my hotmail with PC or any other device, the
> email that I deleted from my phone is still there. However if I
> move the email to a folder, it works fine. It even works fine if
> I move the email to "Delete" folder.
Actually, using "app passwords" is better than using your regular
login credentials from a mobile device. If you are using app
passwords with google I assume you have 2-factor authentication set
up on your google account(s), which is good, for reasons unrelated
to K-9 and mobile devices.
Minimally, you should have a pattern or password screen lock. With
android 5.0.2 (maybe earlier) you can encrypt the device (generally
under the device "security" options). That makes it harder for
someone who has the device, but not the password, to get to stored
content.
Regarding deleting messages -- in general, the option(s) that you
need to look at for keeping things like deletions in sync are:
- [account] settings
- fetching mail
- sync server deletions
& - when i delete a message [mark as deleted on server - yes/no]
& - erase deleted messages on server [imap expunge]
These are valid imap options. I'm not positive what is available for
pop or exchange, but those are the concepts.
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