MailDroid reviews
By Mboyett. Updated December 9, 2011
I just installed MailDroid on my new Motorola Razr (Verizon) phone and I like it very much. I was specifically looking for a mobile mail client that would allow me to delete messages off my phone while leaving them on the server, and this app works very well in that respect. Neither the default mail app nor the Yahoo app would let me do that, or at least if either would, I couldn't find the option.
A couple of things I'm still trying to figure out: How to set up "rules" efficiently and how to either access or set up folders, particularly a Sent folder.
By hoser350. Updated May 3, 2011
I really love the program and have plans purchase if they can get a couple of features put into this program. The most important feature is the timed syncing. I don't need to have the e-mail synced during the night. The ding won't wake me up. People will call if they are having issues. If I could get the timed syncing to save my battery life I would buy this program in a heart beat. It is already much better than the default mail sync application.
By pfhyde. Updated March 22, 2011
Good program, but compared to the native Gmail application, I'm feeling frustrated for two reasons: (one) it's so SLOW to retrieve mail from my POP server--I paid for MailDroid to boost efficiency with using my phone for email, but I'm not seeing the boost; and (two) MailDroid marks mail retrieved and not read on my phone as READ on my server, so that I miss mail often because messages were marked read when I hadn't actually read them! This has become insufferable--the first problem I can deal with, but not missing emails, so I just don't use MailDroid anymore.
By tuanvn. Updated January 4, 2011
This app is working well on my Milestone 2. Just a question :
- I changed my email password on the server. I could not find anywhere in the app to change the password. it said "login failed" when I do the refresh.
Thank you
By DavidEasum. Updated October 22, 2010
Not entirely unhappy - it's far more featured than the app included with my Android 2.1 GT i9000 Galaxy-S, but it still needs a way to go before it can match the power and reliability of the proprietary app that came with my (very)old PalmTreo 650 that the Galaxy is replacing.
By mv1200. Updated October 21, 2010
After using it for 3 months: sluggish, crashes a lot (HTC Legend) and never seems to come out of the beta state.
lookinbg for an alternative
By gary160283. Updated October 20, 2010
I just installed the latest version of Maildroid on my droid x because of the known issues using IMPAP with the native client. It worked fine for a short time but know it does not refresh after a short time without restarting my droid. Any suggestions???
By hondaguy. Updated October 19, 2010
Very nice app. I am using on Motorola Droid for IMAP. Have been using K9 for some time and that has been working OK. My only issue was that the emails I sent from my phone with K9 are not sent with HTML therefore it's all messed up when reading it on my PC afterwards. Mail Droid took care of that however, a lot of time when I open an email it would show like "loading 98KB" or something and just stuck at a blank screen. Have to go back and try again and sometimes a few times before the email open.
I wouldn't mind paying for ad-free as others stated. So far not reliable like K9 but the HTML thing is great so I will patiently wait and keep installing updates hoping these issues get resolved.
Hope I do not have to go back to K9.
Vince.
By hondaguy. Updated October 19, 2010
Very nice app. I am using on Motorola Droid for IMAP. Have been using K9 for some time and that has been working OK. My only issue was that the emails I sent from my phone with K9 are not sent with HTML therefore it's all messed up when reading it on my PC afterwards. Mail Droid took care of that however, a lot of time when I open an email it would show like "loading 98KB" or something and just stuck at a blank screen. Have to go back and try again and sometimes a few times before the email open.
By albokay. Updated October 8, 2010
So far its great.
What id add as a request is a silent option for notification ringtone. It seems the default is linked to text messages which I want a sound for. But email I dont want a sound for. Gmail or stock email never made a sound but maildroid uses my text notify settings.
also id pay for an ad free version but id be fine without one. Whatever makes this guy enough money to keep the updates coming.
By Antony Freemn. Updated August 21, 2010
The best Android mail app I have tried. Built-in Android mail is too simplistic. K9 simply didn't work for me in multiple ways. MailDroid does all I need and I found very easy to install and setup on my HTC Legend.
Two things I'd like:
1) I'd be happy to pay for an Ad Free version.
2) Would love zoom support on mail display to help with reading small fonts.
By jimrin. Updated July 12, 2010
Great app! It has a permanent spot on my Android phone. I am not sure if this belongs under discussion, but I'd like to recommend:
- I use Gmail which allows multiple accounts. This means when I receive mail which was originally sent to a different account, then when I reply, I would like the app to automatically recognize that the sending account should be different. Ideally, I should be able to send up a different smtp server for each different sending account, so I might have only one inbound imap server, but several outbound smtp servers.
By williamcmoran. Updated July 4, 2010
First of all I just want to say that the app is great. I am only having one problem. I am using your app to handle my hotmail account. Once I read an email on my phone, is there any way that it can be marked read on the server? Having emails marked read or deleted off the server is the main reason I left the stock android mail app. Your app allows me to delete off the server but not mark as read. Is there something that I can do?
By penstone. Updated May 12, 2010
The app is nice and has a potential to extremely good. Android desperately needs a 1st class email client that fully syncs with hotmail, i.e. not POP, this could be it in the future.
I would love if it was able to view my hotmail contacts.
By tonya20a. Updated May 1, 2010
(it truncated my message) - sorry for the double post
3. On the message screen the body is too small if I use landscape orientation because of the buttons (reply, etc) and the relative big head. As I use mostly landscape for emailing (typing is faster) it would be a great improvement to have a larger space for the body...
Keep up the good work, thank you for the app and I hope, that further improvement will make it even more usefull.
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