Basic email help: moving email to folders, next/prev msg in landscape

[cantara]

I just picked my new Droid a few hours ago. So far it's great except I can't figure out how to do the following extremely basic things:


Move emails to different folders
Move to next/previous email when in landscape mode
What does highlighting the star symbol on each email mean?

Thank you very much,

Raul Acevedo
http://www.cantara.com

[devwild]

I just picked my new Droid a few hours ago. So far it's great except I can't figure out how to do the following extremely basic things:


Move emails to different folders
Move to next/previous email when in landscape mode
What does highlighting the star symbol on each email mean?

Thank you very much,

Raul Acevedo
http://www.cantara.com

1) Gmail uses labels instead of folders. Hit the menu button and change labels (you can put it in multiples if you want, that's why they're "labels", but you don't have to use them that way). When you are done, archive the mail to get it out of your inbox (or uncheck inbox while changing labels, it does the same thing)

The downside of this method is you can't do nested folders, but it just takes a bit of getting used to mostly, gmail is a slightly different philosophy (apple-esque in that regard ;)) Google would like your primary way of finding old emails to be Search, go figure.

2) not sure what you mean, in either mode you go to "newer" mail by hitting the menu button, then newer.

3) It's kind of like a "favorites", it's like another label. Some people use it to mark an email they want to look at later. You can use it however you want. Personally I just don't use it, I just use labels instead.

[cantara]

1) I don't use gmail, I have an IMAP account on a private server. The email client on the Droid doesn't give me any options to add labels; under Menu, you only get Delete, Forward, Reply, Reply All, and Mark as Unread.

2) Android's email client doesn't have a "Newer" option anywhere. In portrait, right above the message headers you get left and right arrows you can tap for next and previous message, but in landscape mode those buttons go away and there is no way to move to another message without switching back to portrait mode.

3) Thanks, that makes sense.

Thanks for your help, but it looks like Droid's email client really is missing some very basic functionality. It really sucks, I had hoped to use Droid as one of my primary email clients, but right now that just isn't possible.

Raul

[devwild]

1) I don't use gmail, I have an IMAP account on a private server. The email client on the Droid doesn't give me any options to add labels; under Menu, you only get Delete, Forward, Reply, Reply All, and Mark as Unread.

2) Android's email client doesn't have a "Newer" option anywhere. In portrait, right above the message headers you get left and right arrows you can tap for next and previous message, but in landscape mode those buttons go away and there is no way to move to another message without switching back to portrait mode.

3) Thanks, that makes sense.

Thanks for your help, but it looks like Droid's email client really is missing some very basic functionality. It really sucks, I had hoped to use Droid as one of my primary email clients, but right now that just isn't possible.

Raul

Sorry, I didn't gather from the original post that you aren't using gmail, and the droid is very heavily designed around google services, so their other mail support is indeed basic. There are some other email apps in the market you may want to check out, or you can also use a gmail account to work with external accounts (it can pop/imap an external account into gmail and send mail from that account)

[cantara]

The only alternative I've seen is K-9, which is in beta for Droid/Android 2.0. It seems very promising, though it's definitely buggy. Hopefully the final version will work well.

Someone else recommended Seven, though that's also in a private beta. I haven't tried it yet.

What other apps do you know about? Thanks again,

Raul