I’m close to giving up having a working e-mail solution on my new mobile, with K-9.
I hadn’t used K-9, reading mails etc, for a two days, and this afternoon I was expecting an e-mail as a confirmation of something I was doing with the computer; in this I had also used some apps on my old mobile, so it had wi-fi enabled. The “new” mobile, with problems, was just resting, charged and ready for the coming week. As I was waiting for the e-mail (usually arrives in 5-10 minutes) I thought why not enable wi-fi on the new mobile to see if it’s working.
As I went to do this I heard the sound from my old mobile (I had forgot to disable wi-fi when it was no longer needed); the old mobile had fetched the confirmation e-mail, it’s still unread.
I enabled wi-fi on the new one, and waited a minute, no check, started K-9, nothing, did a manual check, and imagine my surprise, at the top was an unread mail from Friday, I had downloaded this together with some other with the computer (POP), so it shouldn’t be there. It is possible that I did fetch it with K-9 on Friday, on the new mobile together with a couple e-mails that I did read, and forgot about it. What strikes me is that usually when you start K-9 old recently already fetched, read & unread, mails are at the top. When I was trying to get K-9 to fetch today’s e-mail I hadn’t scrolled down so that I missed this unread, from Friday, at the top.
To conclude: it didn’t fetch mail as soon as I enabled wi-fi, it didn’t fetch when I tried manual (weird I know, but at this point I wasn’t in mood for troubleshooting, again; I just pulled down the list to invoke a poll), but it did show an unread mail from Friday.
And not related to the topic (I know, another subject…), why do I at times see a spinning wheel for several seconds, half a minute, in the notification bar, and a dot on the K-9 icon, when K-9 isn’t running and there is no data link, mobile or wi-fi?
It happened again shortly after the above-mentioned, and after I had disabled wi-fi again.
Isn’t that the first thing K-9 should check: do I have a data link or not, if not, not worth trying. So what’s going there?
(The (new) mobile isn’t exactly heavily modified; almost all, if not all, is running at standard settings (I gave K-9 unlimited battery for background operation), and I do not, at least not yet, run multiple apps at the same time.
Still haven’t downloaded the new e-mail mentioned at the beginning (and thus deleted it on server with POP) with the computer. So did another check with K-9, enabled wifi on the new mobile, did a manual check, nothing quickly went to settings for the account and went trough settings for incoming server, clicked next, and it saved and returned to settings. Nothing. The only device that has touched the e-mail server so far was the K-9 on the old mobile that fetched the mail (still unread).