I've installed K-9 (the latest version, AFAIK, v. 5.403) for the first time, and I had a bit of a hard slog setting it up. I posted a couple of questions here about manually syncing email and the meaning of "poll" and "push." I've since deleted those posts, since I've largely solved my own problems, and don't want to trouble anyone else with them.
The problems came because, when I first installed K-9 and set up my Comcast email account (the only one I'll use), K-9 automatically defaulted to setting it up as IMAP, with which I'm unfamiliar, and which doesn't respond well to my limited needs for an email app on my phone. Only after I'd gone through a long process of trying to figure out settings did I manage to go back and manually set Comcast up as POP3. I've now got it working the way I want, which again is probably much simpler than many K-9 users need, especially those who are engaged in this forum. WRT "poll" and "push", IMAP terms I didn't recognize, I finally found the page in the documentation on "Reading E-mail" ( https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/reading.html), which does explain clearly what these terms mean. It's regrettable that they aren't explained in the pages on settings, such as https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/settings/folder.html. Apparently what that page calls "Folder sync class" is now called "Folder poll class" in the current version. But the statement regarding "Folder push class" ("the push class ... setting is only available for IMAP accounts") remains incomprehensible, since it doesn't explain for what purpose the setting is available; and the link to "How to use K-9’s folder class system" ( https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/settings/WorkingWithClasses) is broken (error 404). There are other places where the online documentation seems to refer to an earlier version. For instance, in https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/folders.html I find: Perhaps most confusing aspect of K-9 is the use of Classes to control the display and synchronization behavior of accounts and folders.... If you do not make any Class setting changes, K-9 will display all of your folders, but will not perform automatic synchronization on any of them, until you change the 'Email check frequency' in the Account settings. This *is* confusing, and the fact that the setting "Email check frequency" does not seem to exist in the Account settings doesn't help. This page also refers to "Display mode" and "Sync mode" in Account settings. I found "Folders to display" under Account settings > Folders, which seems to be the same as "Display mode"; but I can't find "Sync mode" anywhere. I'm looking forward to using K-9 now that I have it properly set up. I would like to suggest respectfully that (a) defaulting to IMAP in an initial, automated setup can create problems for users who are not expecting it; and (b) while I understand that as an open-source, free app K-9's documentation may not always be up-to-date in relation to current features, at least the setting sections, which is where new users are likely to go first IMHO, ought to be revised. Thanks for listening! PS. WRT the automatic IMAP setup, I discovered that, for Comcast, the incoming server should be imap.email.comcast.net (per the information on Comcast's Web email settings); in K-9 the incoming server is automatically set up as imap.comcast.net. -- 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.
