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Email is supposed to be a key application for mobile devices, so it's surprising how immature the current Android offerings are.
The original bundled client has to be one of the worst apps that Google has produced. I persevered with it for 18 months because I only really used it to read emails, and then only when away from the office of course. But it can't be used to look at sent mail, check the junk folder or safely delete a message on something like Gmail. That's because you can't specify these key folders and there is no universal naming convention for IMAP. For instance, the Sent box might be called "Sent", "Sent Items" or "Sent Mail". It also can't handle these folders nested under Inbox, as most IMAP servers like to do, because the IMAP root path feature doesn't work properly, at least on the Android versions I've tried.
K9 is a big step up, it's free and very popular. But it has some clunky usability problems, such as switching to your Sent (or any other) folder: Menu button, scroll down to 'Folder List' and select it, then scroll down to 'Sent'. Even the original Android client is much better than that. On the plus side, it gives you a 2-line preview of each message.
MailDroid has a cleaner interface and introduces conversation view, but lacks previews. Unfortunately, I found that it just ignored parts of conversations and was noticeably slower than K9.
Kaiten (K10 geddit?) is an improved version of K9 that costs $5. Frankly, it's worth it; usability is much improved and you also score a full preview pane (if your screen is big enough), but no conversation view.
And that appears to be about it - or has someone here found a jewel hiding in the haystack that is Android Market?
The original bundled client has to be one of the worst apps that Google has produced. I persevered with it for 18 months because I only really used it to read emails, and then only when away from the office of course. But it can't be used to look at sent mail, check the junk folder or safely delete a message on something like Gmail. That's because you can't specify these key folders and there is no universal naming convention for IMAP. For instance, the Sent box might be called "Sent", "Sent Items" or "Sent Mail". It also can't handle these folders nested under Inbox, as most IMAP servers like to do, because the IMAP root path feature doesn't work properly, at least on the Android versions I've tried.
K9 is a big step up, it's free and very popular. But it has some clunky usability problems, such as switching to your Sent (or any other) folder: Menu button, scroll down to 'Folder List' and select it, then scroll down to 'Sent'. Even the original Android client is much better than that. On the plus side, it gives you a 2-line preview of each message.
MailDroid has a cleaner interface and introduces conversation view, but lacks previews. Unfortunately, I found that it just ignored parts of conversations and was noticeably slower than K9.
Kaiten (K10 geddit?) is an improved version of K9 that costs $5. Frankly, it's worth it; usability is much improved and you also score a full preview pane (if your screen is big enough), but no conversation view.
And that appears to be about it - or has someone here found a jewel hiding in the haystack that is Android Market?