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No argument here. But is it any worse than Thunderbird?
by cvwright 9y ago
No argument here. But is it any worse than Thunderbird?
- Arkanosis 9y agoMy own take on this point: for my neither trivial nor very advanced needs, K9 at least lacks: - hierarchical display of email threads; - search that actually works. That being said, I'm rather happy with K9, and I'd certainly prefer to see energy spent in making it even better than in making a “Mobile Thunderbird” from scratch.
- javitury 9y ago> search that actually works If search works fast on Thunderbird is because it keeps all emails in your local hdd. To be fair you should also set the option account settings > fetching mail > local folder size to 'all' in K9.
- Nux 9y agoThat's a bit overkill for a phone. I recommend enabling server side search in Account Settings, much easier on resources.
- Arkanosis 9y agoIt doesn't work well either in my experience. Not sure if K9 is really the one to blame, or the IMAP server (Gmail, in my case). As Thunderbird indeed does search locally, it isn't impacted by poor server side search anyway. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
- Arkanosis 9y agoThanks a lot for the suggestion! It was set to 100… that's a terrible default for a phone with 64 GiB onboard storage…
- ntnn 9y agoYou should try AquaMail. The search works. Threads aren't shows as a tree, sadly, but they are grouped into a folder - not ideal but you can at least follow simple conversations. Still not something for mailing lists. Additionally, AquaMail can handle nested folders, which K9 doesn't and never will, according to its developers.
- PuffinBlue 9y agoDoes it allow plain text composing/viewing yet?
- Arkanosis 9y agoGood question, this is also mandatory for me.
- Arkanosis 9y agoIt's not free software, unfortunately, so that is a showstopper for me. Thanks for suggestion, though.