I'd prefer to have Sync ON all the time. How can I make that happen? On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 10:13:06 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > As usual, it appears that no sync on Android S7 is a known bug and has > appeared in the bug tracker for a long time. It has NOT been resolved. > Unfortunately, the K-9 people have not included this information in their > FAQ. Thanks K-9. > > Please refer to https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues ...this link is > the bug list for K-9. Please refer to bug 2618, which is a continuation of > bug 2357, which is a continuation of another earlier bug. Same > description, no sync with Android S7 with the latest K-9 version. > > One or two people have checked into battery saving as the reason for > no-sync. At best, it is a workaround for only a few people. That means > that K-9 is not able to wake up the phone to fetch mail, and that is a > bug. For most, disabling battery saving for K-9 does not work. > > I did find a screen of permissions in the K-9 program under > Settings/Apps/K-9/Permissions. Under "Additional Permissions" there are 4 > choices which are all truncated so you can't read what they are or what > they do. Personally I do NOT want K-9 to read and update my Contacts list > or interact with the Play Store or my Calendar. I can't even. Sometimes, > I can press one of these truncated permissions and a message comes up > telling me that these permissions are for a previous version of K-9, or > that K-9 needs to be updated. Not too helpful. > > So, summary is that the problem is known and has not been noted on the K-9 > FAQ. Presently there does not seem to be a fix, or even a message saying > that they are working on a fix. > > Time to look for another email app, I guess. > > Raj >
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