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Hotmail/email app not working very well

Hi I am finding that my hotmail emails are not coming through when they should it is set up to check every 15 minutes but can take several hours to get emails. They are in my hotmail account and doing a manual refresh doesn't help. This is with wifi or good 3g. Gmail works instantly and everything else works fine internet/widgets etc.
Any advice is very much appreciated.
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badasschris said:
Hi I am finding that my hotmail emails are not coming through when they should it is set up to check every 15 minutes but can take several hours to get emails. They are in my hotmail account and doing a manual refresh doesn't help. This is with wifi or good 3g. Gmail works instantly and everything else works fine internet/widgets etc.
Any advice is very much appreciated.
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I just downloaded K-9, which seems to be a better client than the stock. Look in here: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Email/K9-Android-71552.shtml

Hi sorry just saw your reply, thanks for the suggestion I've tried it out and it's definitely better than the standard version but still doesn't work all the time. I don't suppose there is a way to forward my hotmail to another account as I suspect the problem is with hotmail
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k9 mail is not compatible with free hotmail accounts. plus k9 mail always brings old emails as new emails.
try SEVEN beta, it is not available via market place. you need to google it.

This is a bit disappointing, im also having issues with my hotmail account which was working fine on my hero previously...

3rd party email problem

Hey everyon, so through my email app I hve my hotmail account syncing up to it. The problem I have is that when I receive an email and delete it from my phone, it does not delete it from my email account. I only check my email by computer every couple of days so its a PITA to delete a couple hundred emails when I do get on a computer. Does anyone else experience this and if so is there a work around or a free app that will sync my email and delete them from the server as well as my phone
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Switch to gmail... it is way better. Plus why would you have a hotmail account with a google phone...
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knx2 said:
Switch to gmail... it is way better. Plus why would you have a hotmail account with a google phone...
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Probably because I've had the email account for years before I had the phone, hell i'vehad th account before there was gmail. I understand that it is a google phone and that Gmail works better with thr phone but With over 200 email contacts I can't just drop my hotmail account.
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First off, I don't have experience with your senarion.
That said, have you checked any settings on the phones email app nd hotmail for this problem? Also, do the emails that don't get deleted appear read? Or they unread?
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knx2 said:
Switch to gmail... it is way better. Plus why would you have a hotmail account with a google phone...
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And the most ratarted post of the year goes to...
OP, try Maildroid. Within its settings you can set how it interacts with your server.

megabiteg said:
First off, I don't have experience with your senarion.
That said, have you checked any settings on the phones email app nd hotmail for this problem? Also, do the emails that don't get deleted appear read? Or they unread?
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I've checked settings in the stock email app and didn't see any options for this problem....also the emails appear unread on the internet when they are deleted from the phone
I'll check out maildroid too, thanks
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Sh0wNuF said:
I've checked settings in the stock email app and didn't see any options for this problem...
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If you go into the email app, then 'Settings->Incoming server settings->Delete email from server', you can change it from 'Never' to 'When I delete from Inbox', although I have had mixed results with this actually working on my Hotmail account. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.

Native email app

I'm coming from a blackberry to android.
I had a Nexus One for leisure purposes and it got me hoocked to Android.
Now I'm giving up on the blackberry for a Desire HD and I still cannot figure a way to replace the awesome email service from my old blackberry.
Downsides I'm facing:
-battery drainage;
-difficult or multi step configurations;
-delays receiving email notifications, when compared to the immediate blackberry delivery.
I'm looking for solutions.
Tried K9 and other email apps and the native app, but it seems that Android is still struggling to get multiple accounts working efficiently at the same time, specially business oriented.
Any tips?
It should I just stick to blackberry for email solutions?
Tks folks.
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I switched from BB as well. For my work email/calendar/contacts. I use Touchdown. Easy to set up exchange and does pretty much everything I need. The only issues I have are related to recurring events and contacts sorting. TD also works very well with Pure Calendar Widget. Of course BB is the email king for business use, but this setup is not bad either.
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I'm using K9 with multiple accounts, setup as push and I always get my mails delivered instantly.
For me it works perfectly, what problems do you have?
Also +1 for Touchdown. All of the people I know coming from Blackberry find it to be a good replacement.

Thanks guys.
I have one gmail, one yahoo and one corporate email.
When having my blackberry and the DHD side by side, the difference on receiving emails is enormous. It's taking more then two minutes to get it on my DHD. Blackberry is instant.
Battery drainage is also a problem since I have to keep fetching ans polling emails.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Any further insights?
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Yep, never set K9 to do any fetching or polling.
Only use push, this way the mail sever will push the mail to you as soon as it arrives. It will be instant and it also won't drain your battery.
Edit: in account preferences, set verification frequency to "never".
And enable push.

Anyone using yahoo?
Does it work with push?
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The email side of things is making me want to go back to my iphone. Never had this kind of annoying, unreliable service with my 3gs iphone.
Installed stock froyo app as the htc mail app doesnt work with push hotmail, that is flaky at best, sometimes mail doesnt even arrive even tho it says theres mail there and doesnt work with html.
I think its awful that it cant even work with probably the biggest email domain on the net.

Hotmail is at best reciving junk mail, desire hd works pretty well for my gmail. Sorry the MSN lovers.
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Has anyone gotten active exchange to work on evo

I seem to have a issue connecting. To my work e-mail. its through Microsoft. I can get it to connect with touchdown but was wondering if I could get it to work with What comes on the phone
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I have exchange with mail2web work pretty good so far
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I have the same problem with the native aosp email client. I can connect fine with the sense client and touchdown. I have tried time and time again for a solution to no avail. I have even called my I.T. department and they Sid thy its on Google's end and there was nothing they could do. Its a real bummer.

Thanks for your response guys
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I had mine workin fine before I rooted and havent been able to get it to connect since then...

I have been using my EVO for my work (Exchange) email and calendar since launch day. It has worked on non-rooted Sense, rooted Sense and rooted non-Sense. I just had to add "webmail" before my exchange name (webmail.company.com).

No problems whatsoever with the Email client in CyanogenMod 7. Connects, syncs, push notifies, does calendar, email, and contacts.

If your company is publishing "outlook anywhere" the stock sense mail client should connect and auto configure. Only needs domain and account credentials
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drmacinyasha said:
No problems whatsoever with the Email client in CyanogenMod 7. Connects, syncs, push notifies, does calendar, email, and contacts.
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Agreed. The only thing missing for me is search.
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Mine works fine.

Just be aware that if you connect your personal cell phone to your work Exchange account then they can wipe your phone.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131511381/wipeout-when-your-company-kills-your-iphone
With Exchange 2010 you can wipe the phone yourself using OWA. Maybe with 2007 as well but my company uses 2010.

Appends on your Exchange server policies. The stock android client is not compatible with certain security policies.
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Moving from WM (HTC Sense) to the Atrix, email seems missing

So I'm new having just moved to Android from WM, and have configured all my accounts on the phone (that's 7 email accounts under Accounts), now my problem is simple I see no way to actual see existing messages in the inbox's, when I get a mail it shows up in notifications, but other than the gmail accounts (all 5 of which are available from the gmail app if separately), getting to the yahoo, msn or aol accounts (mostly used of IM, but mail does go to them some times) is just not easy. I really expected more from Android when it comes to email accounts. I've seen programs like Enhanced Email or Pure Messenger in the market place, but before I went and sent money, I thought I'd ask if there was something I'm missing built in or free?
On the same note I'm finding the Widgets that are provided for Google voice, are ugly and others say for email are simply not present at all. All of this is making me miss my HTC Sense interface on WM. However there I'd expect solutions for all of these issue, which is what I'm looking for.
Thanks,
ERIC

You'll find all your emails in the messaging app
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I know the app you are suggesting, but so far it always says no emails, yet the gmail app shows well over a hundred, so as far as I can tell its not working, also like to crash on me, so I do not think it is a solution.
Thanks,
ERIC

You can try K9-Mail for an e-mail client. Works amazing for me.

egandt said:
I know the app you are suggesting, but so far it always says no emails, yet the gmail app shows well over a hundred, so as far as I can tell its not working, also like to crash on me, so I do not think it is a solution.
Thanks,
ERIC
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have you configured the email accounts in their respective sections in MESSAGING app as has already been suggested? the app works fine here, so if you are having problems, factory reset and try again. i dont really understand what the problem is. your question originally was how to access them, then when told how to access them you say it's not working. if its not working, start there and figure out WHY its not working......THAT would be your problem, wouldnt it?

not trying to be hostile or funny here, but if you love HTC Sense, you do know there are plenty of androids running HTC sense right?
or you can wait for a HTC Sense ROM

I have five accounts running with no problem. Try a factory reset like someone else suggested.
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By default its only set to sync the past 3 days of mail. Go into account settings from the messaging app and bump it up to 30 days. 30 days is the max which is a bummer. On my past win mobile you could tell it to sync all mail.
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