Mail app for android?

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Have a friend that needs a better mail app for His Droid Incredable. Not sure what he using now, but he is not using it with gmail. It's business email that comes in from his domain server I think.

[Lowblazah]

Touchdown is about the best one I know of that is geared for Exchange server accounts.

[upnorth]

I have been using K9 for my home account to keep it separate from my work account.

[fishnowworknever]

The built in email app works just fine (Corporate Sync). That's what I use and it works flawlessly with Exchange 2010. There are known issues if his company is still stuck on Exchange 2003 or even 2007 with out any service packs.

Just remember with Touchdown if that phone needs to be wiped because it was lost/stolen via his company's exchange server (I assume that is what they are using) it will not wipe the phone only the email portion of it.

All pictures, texts, contacts etc will still be available to whoever finds it/stole it.

[fisherman-andy]

I dont get why you cant just use the native mail app on the phone to setup email accounts. Exchange may require your company's IT dept intervention for it to work properly on mobile phones. You need permission rights as well as domain name/server name.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I'm getting my info second hand, but from what I understand there is no apparent way to forward an email, or send a photo attached to a message.

My gmail app works wonderful on android, but he is using a corporate email on the mail app that came on the phone. Maybe it's just him??

[upnorth]

I tend to think he is not doing it quite right. Both K 9 and the native email app work well.

[SimilarIsland]

I am unable to edit a forwarded email with my stock email program. Maybe that's what he means.

[upnorth]

How about if you try to forward or reply to it? Most email apps won't allow you to do much with an email if you just open it.

[SimilarIsland]

I can't edit the original message when I forward or reply. My wife returned her Android and went back to her Iphone (evidently you can on an Iphone) after she discovered this.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Also he can't take a picture and send it in an email message either. I guess I better take a look at it myself. Must be pilot error.

[Retro Active]

+1 for Touchdown. It costs $20 I think, but it's considerably better than the native email app on my android phone (Samsung Epic). I like the widget as well were I can switch between email, tasks, calendar etc. all on one of the main screens. A very solid program.

[LMITOUT]

I can't edit the original message when I forward or reply. My wife returned her Android and went back to her Iphone (evidently you can on an Iphone) after she discovered this.

Sure you can. Just click on 'forward' and then 'respond inline'.

Edit: this only applies to gmail accounts. Not sure if that is what you were referring too.

[SimilarIsland]

I can edit the Gmail, just not the stock email(doesn't really bother me).

But, I can email pics with either. The confusing part about emailing pics is that you "share" the pic, then select the program ie. Gmail, Email, Messaging, etc.

[upnorth]

Both K9 and the native app allow me to attach pics. Mine you can pic explore or use app/gallery.

[LMITOUT]

There is nothing wrong with the native email app within Android. Not sure why so many have issues with it.

I guess that's why they make iPhones...

[pureinsanity]

There is nothing wrong with the native email app within Android. Not sure why so many have issues with it.

I guess that's why they make iPhones...

I agree, if you are forwarding an email why do you need to edit the forwarded material?

I am able to forward a message and add text and attachments just not able to edit the forwarded material. But if you are forwarding why do you need to???

[Lowblazah]

There is nothing wrong with the native email app within Android. Not sure why so many have issues with it.

I guess that's why they make iPhones...

All depends on the Android itself and the exchange server its trying to handshake with. After upgrading my company to Exchange 2010. I had a user who's Android's built-in mail app would not make the SSL handoff without erroring. Once we demo'd touchdown, it worked perfectly. No other android users in the company had this issue so I ruled out SSL/Exchange server. He was running a pretty old android tho...but seeing touchdown worked he ended up buying it so he didnt have to be forced into a new phone.

[LMITOUT]

Yeah, I've read that for running company email through an Andriod device people recommend Touchdown as it seems to perform better in the situation that you described.

[RuKiddingMe]

Touchdown for my Cooperate email and K9 for my personal email.

[toughguy]

Touchdown for me too.

[pureinsanity]

[quote name='Lowblazah

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after reading this I looked at my phone and had an error. Sertificate are as you stated. Now I have been getting it frequently. Perhaps my host updated as well. Might check out touch down! Thanks Andrew!!!

[upnorth]

I just installed a new exchange 2010 server and will be messing with the Web Access and Smart phone parts this week. If I run into anything earth shattering I will post it.

[MN Mike]

Exchange 2010 and 2007 are very friendly to mobile devices such as smartphones and IPod / IPad tablet devices. Exchange 2003 needed SP2 installed to aid mobile device accessibility but once that was installed it was pretty smooth. For those wanting to get connected to a corporate account, it's a good idea to find out what version of Exchange they are on.

There are a few good step by step articles on the web about creating your own security certificate if you need to but most people ignore the certificate when setting up the email account.

In the few cases I've had trouble with the native client on the smartphone not being able to connect to Exchange, Touchdown has been the ' magic bullet ' and worked flawlessly.

A few people have complained about battery life after the corporate email account was setup, a person might can change sync intervals if this is the case, that should conserve some battery life.

Mike

[upnorth]

Yeah got it working with a self signed cert. Going to get the real McCoy as we did for the other server so that folks don't see the error with OWA.

But go figure did mine first and had to reset all the permission to my account. Didn't need to change anything, but needed to reset them. Also mine is a Exchange 2003 account moved to Exchange 2010 so that could be an issue(hope not we have about 400 accounts and probably a quarter use smart phones. There have been a few issues with going from 2003 to 2010 as they really aren't that similar in how they do things. This has been worse than going from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 in how many little buggy things you need to iron out.