[android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-09 Thread RMD
Just for anybody who comes across this link wondering the same thing, this worked for me: http://www.androidsnippets.org/snippets/166/ I only used a gmail account, but it worked. Good luck. On Apr 7, 8:32 am, RMD rmdel...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the responses.  I was just getting the

[android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-07 Thread RMD
Thanks for all the responses. I was just getting the phone to email me gps data about were my phone has been. It might be easier to have it go to a web server and just log in to look at it. I figured as much about the spam possibilities I suppose it was mostly, I wonder if I can..., knowing

[android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-06 Thread Matias Alberto de la Vega
Really bad move not to allow developers to send email programatically in the background, and not just that, you may also find annoying, as I did, that you can only attach pictures to your emails =( I have a nexus one and let me tell you, for such a device a lack of this functionality is

[android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-06 Thread Yahel
, for such a device a lack of this functionality is unacceptable =( You do realise the splendid Spam platform they would have created if they allowed to send email programmatically without the user noticing ? 40 000 000 Android handsets in 2012 :D If you want to send email in the background,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Murphy
If you want to send email in the background, you could simply send to a webservice the content of your email + attachments and let the server do the email sending. That certainly would be my recommendation, if the goal is just to send an email. If the goal is to send an email from the user's

[android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-06 Thread Bob Kerns
Actually, you CAN send email silently. You can send email from any device capable of an outbound TCP connection on the SMTP port. You can even send it as coming from the user's account. Or, you can pretend to be Obama, or your favorite rock star. You just can't get the built-in email application

[android-developers] Re: Send email in background

2010-04-05 Thread RMD
Thanks! Robert On Apr 5, 11:38 am, Jiri jiriheitla...@googlemail.com wrote: See this: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... Jiri On 05/04/2010 15:58, Mark Murphy wrote: Is there and accepted way to send an email in the background? You would need