K-9 no longer fetches all messages

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Recently K-9 has stopped pulling all messages from the POP3 server. Two things are noticed:

  1. Pulling down on the message list would not get all messages available. A subsequent pull would get the remainder.
  2. As messages come into the message list they have a new animation or something.
  3. A blue bar used to go across the top of the message list indicating progress. Now it doesn’t go or only goes a little bit and stops.
  4. After clearing local messages to see if that was the problem it will only pull a couple days from the server and three months worth are on the server.

I use Thunderbird on my PC for email. I leave messages on the server and delete when three months old. This allows me to view email on different platforms. I use K-9 when out and about. Over the past couple of weeks K-9 has become unusable because I can’t pull my email from the server. I verified the issue on three different android devices.

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You might consider abandoning POP for IMAP since, unlike POP, IMAP is meant to be used on multiple devices. Leaving messages on the server with POP has always been a messy attempt to overcome limitations of the protocol.

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I am referencing the mailbox via IMAP and was mistaken.

There must have been a server issue. Now the app works ok. I uninstalled the app, reinstalled, and it would pull a few emails at a time then stop. This went on for a long time. Today it pulls all three months worth. The green status bar goes across the top and it works good.

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