There are a lot of us that want K9 to open to the list of email accounts.
This was the way that K9 could be opened up until the start of this decade.
When the previous developer changed this at the start of this decade, the 5 star app turned into a 2 or 1 star app.
If Thunderbird brings back the ability to open K9 to the list of email accounts, K9 will return to a 5 star app within days.
This doesn’t need to be the only way to open K9. Just add an option in Settings, just like being able to open at a Unified list or not.
If Thunderbird look at the K9 app reviews from around 2021, you will see when the 5 star rating crashed due to the new UI, which removed the ability to open at the list of email accounts.
If you use a 32 bit phone, look for Open Mail, which has the UI that had the 5 star rating, being able to open at a list of email accounts.
This sounds like an interesting idea, I know users have different preferences when loading the app. On the other hand, we don’t want to overload the app with too many settings. I think there are enough different needs so that users won’t immediately bring the ratings back to 5 stars for this one feature though. The current average rating is higher than back before the 5.807 release
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Looking forward to seeing your idea there, this will help find out how well received a change like this would be.
The removal of this feature which is why so many dudes using K9 was the core (only) reason for the rating to crash. All of us using K9 at the time know about this.
As for K9 having a better star rating from 2021 is so easy. So many others came to K9 after the rating crash and didn’t know how good K9 was for multi account users. But K9 rating has never got back to where is was back in those days.
I have posted on Moz Connect but that isn’t the best place for K9 ideas. K9 stuff gets drowned out by all other Moz programs.
I am still using K9 hoping it will become a great app again eventually, but I am constantly being frustrated by the awkward interface for multiple email accounts.
Same with me.
I just started having some authentication errors and haven’t been able to check one of my accounts via K9 for a few days now. If it’s an OAuth2 issue, it seems like I’ll have to update K9, which is why I ended up back here. I wanted to see if the current version still has that same combined mailbox.
Sounds like it does, which means I’ll have to find a different program. I tried the unified inbox when it was forced on us, hated it, reloaded 5.6 and haven’t looked back.
I’d much rather stick with K9, but the unified inbox doesn’t work for me. I’m surprised it’s it’s still being used.
I agree, but there was an awful lot of commotion when they introduced it and I know I’m not the only one still running an older version.
Let me update that from “the unified inbox doesn’t work for me. I’m surprised it’s it’s still being used.” to “the unified inbox doesn’t work for me. I’m surprised they haven’t added an option to disable it”.
For me, personally, having all my emails from multiple accounts on one screen doesn’t work for me. For how I use K9, a unified inbox is a dealbreaker. Right now it’s checking 4 accounts, two of them are gmail accounts. I’m only having this authentication error on one of them and it’s happened in the past as well. If it doesn’t clear up in another day or two, I’ll try the current version, but I’ll likely end up with something else.
Then I’m confused as to what was going on when I, and lot of other people, downgraded back to 5.6 because of the unified inbox and lack of account overview?
I suppose, before I get too concerned, I should ask if you think it’s possible this is a glitch with gmail that might clear itself up (I believe I’ve had this same problem in the past and after a few days it stopped happening) or something that will actually require updating the app?
I ask because two of my accounts are gmail accounts, but this is only happening with one of them. Not sure if it makes a difference, but the one that’s still working is a standard @gmail.com, the one that isn’t working is an @mydomain.com address that’s running though gmail.
The unified inbox was always there (and could always be disabled). It has nothing to do with the account overview screen. Note that the side bar now shows an account overview since a couple of months.
I already moved over to another client. After all these years, K9 Mail no longer appears to work the way I need it to work.
I did update it to the current version, but not having the account overview front and center when I start the app, for me personally, is a deal breaker.
Replacing the account overview with the shade the slides in from the left. That doesn’t work for me. And if you miss the shade, it’ll select an email or open the link it thinks you were clicking on. That doesn’t work for me. Having each account identified by two letters instead of the account’s name. That doesn’t work for me.
Give me the v5.6 era version of the account overview and I’ll by happy, but without it, this email client just isn’t for me.
It’s not like I’m the only person that wants it back. I’m surprised the developers are willing to die on this hill.
