POP3 Accounts ... WTF?!?

[jack528]

Is anyone else having trouble w/ pop3 accounts? I use comcast and some other specific accounts for business (not exchange) and am barely getting ANY emails.

I am NOT interested in forwarding these accounts to gmail so i get the email. That's a USELESS sol'n.

Is this just a prob with Android?

[amitava82]

It's a common issue and is expected to be fixed with OTA update.

[angeland]

I am managing to get the emails if I check them but they are not coming automatically even though they are supposed to check every 10 minutes. The funny thing is that the first day it worked fine.

[Gateau Noel]

the pop email is bad for me too it takes forever to load my email and im stuck looking at the ugly folders that i dont care to see in the first place such as sent, drafts saved ims (which is great in the longrun because everyone wants a file explorer), i would like to just look at my email when i want to, this will change hopefully soon

[DesignDawg]

What problems exactly are you having? I noticed I'm not getting any notifications on my POP3 account, and when I came on here to see if anyone else was having this problem, I saw that this is being addressed in the first OTA that is supposed to be rolling out any time now. So, in that case, yes, it is a problem with Android, I guess. Are you actually missing emails that are showing up elsewhere?

[jack528]

i have my comcast emails go to my outlook at home. b/f buying the G1, the emails also went to my HTC Dash (t-mobile) w/out any probs.

I have several urls (for different businesses with different pop3 accounts.

none are working.

i verified this 2 ways:

1. had friends send emails, go nothing

2. checked the outlook at home and the emails were present outlook.

any idea when this update may happen? i only switched from teh dash to the g1 b/c i was told -- repeatedly -- that pop3 accounts work fine.

i just bought the g1 yesterday, have rec'd one email (out of 35) on the phone. nothing else.

i've been able to SEND emails w/out incident.

HELP!! The phone is really cool, but i need some functionality. Again, i'm not looking exchange capabilities.

Thanks.

[DesignDawg]

Unfortunately, unless I've missed some newer info, we don't know specifically when the updates will happen. The doc that was written about it was kinda witty and humorous, and just said "wait" and "wait a little longer" and "don't worry, it will come" and stuff like that. Your problems don't seem to be the kind addressed in this update, though. It would sound like your settings are messed somewhere, if not for the fact that you said you have gotten 1 email?

Are you sure one of your other devices/computer isn't pulling them off the server? If you want to check POP3 accounts on mupliple machines, you MUST have them ALL set to "leave a copy on server". The default is for a device to take them off a server, and once that happens, you can never check/receive that email anywhere else...

[jack528]

all are left on server. already very familiar with that type of setting as i've been using it for some time.

i agree. very bizarre that i got one email. but nothing else.

while typing this thread, i've had others send test emails to my accounts and still nothing.

could i also have a lemon phone? meaning, should i try exchanging the phone with another?

thanks for your help.

[LordKurgan]

Yeah I been having the same POP3 issues too. I brought this up in my review. Its a known issue and there should be an update in time. If your email also supports IMAP switch as a work around for now.

[n7csi]

What I would suggest you do is if your Email provider has the option to forward emails to another email account, I would set it up to forward a copy of incoming emails to your Gmail account. that way your email will be pushed to your gmail account. I have Cox email and can't seem to get the pop3 to work either. So I went into my Cox email account and set it up to forward a copy of all email to my gmail account. now when i get a message sent to my cox email address I get it on my n7csi911@gmail.com account and it is pushed so I get it pretty quick. I like it better this way anyways because i get my email much faster.