I have been using an old phone and K-9 Mail 5.6 for years because I need to be notified of incoming emails to a specific folder as soon as possible. K-9 works beautifully with poll frequency set to 1 minute.
Recently I bought a Samsung A53 running Android 11, but it looks like the minimum poll frequency is greater than 1 minute for recent versions of K-9 Mail.
So my question is this: what is the last version of K-9 that allows 1 minute poll frequency, and what is the latest version of Android that it works on? If necessary, I will return the Samsung phone and buy a phone that will enable me to use K-9 Mail at 1 minute poll frequency.
The latest Beta has Push again, meaning you’ll get notified as soon as you receive a new email. It’s still a bit glitchy but being worked on and mostly does what it should.
Other than that I think the Playstore non-Beta still has the 1 minute option and I can’t imagine that it’s tied to an Android version
OK, thank you, that is very helpful. I downloaded 5.6 (like I have on my LG G4 and LG Stylo 2+, where it works perfectly).
I have been testing the app quite a bit, and what I’ve discovered is that with Android 11, unlike earlier versions of Android, the app has to be open in order to sync. I can hit “clear all” in previous versions of Android, and K-9 Mail still syncs as desired. So, I’m either missing a setting in Android 11, or the app just has to stay open in order to poll every minute. That’s OK, I’ll just have to remember never to close the app.
So thank you again, I’m pretty sure this will be a solution for me.
Thanks, I’m going to continue testing. Notifications have been inconsistent. Sometimes I get the vibration but no ringtone. Sometimes nothing happens at all. I’m trying to see a pattern.
I know this is an older topic, but I think that it does still describe a problem with K9 even in it’s latest incarnation.
Push and sync do not always - and in all configurations - solve any user’s problems. The shortest poll frequency on K9 is currently 15 minutes. That is not always good enough either.
Is there a chance that K9 implements a very short poll freq. like 1 or 2 minutes again ? I think this was available in the past, and I cannot figure that this is a major problem to implement.
Are you saying that a system function call will not accept “1min” parameter, or does it mean that Android actively monitors calls from an app like k9 and discards any 2nd call within less than 15 minutes. I am sure you know much more about these limitations than I do, but I have a hard time believing that a 1min poll frequency could not be implemented “at all” if programmed within k9. Any comment highly welcome
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