I'm looking for an email app that can connect to gmail and yahoo mail without necessarily connecting through accounts that are on the device.
An app that is independent of the information that is on the device. The same way an app from a website connects to your account on their site without having to go through the accounts set up on device (if i understand it right.)
Is there such a thing?
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Cloudmagic, i think does what you want.
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Are these options safe? Well what i mean exactly is, is my personal info and privacy kept from being sold and what not? Cloudmagic does use cloud services and i assume outlook works in a similar fashion. If these email apps do the same thing that the native gmail app will do with any information i summon use and keep on my phone anyway, then it's kinda back to square one. I'm using moboclean to keep as much info on my phone (mainly my contact list) away from these communicative apps. Since i have a couple of alternate email accounts, i would like to use a particularly different app for one of my accounts and not get it mixed up with all the info sharing the other apps do.
Now if there is something that i've misunderstood on how some of these apps work, let me know. There is still some learning i need to do, but i really don't like the idea that some of these apps have inevitable permissions to access account details stored by other apps on my device and what not.
I just need the email app to work literary like a browser, like how i would access gmail through google's mail.google.com web page, but instead, the apps will use my credentials to login to my inbox automatically and not tie my device to my account in anyway, nor tie my account to my device. And google or yahoo or whatever, will think i'm accessing my email through a normal desktop computer.
Maybe i'm asking too much in our "out of control" world of today.
But thank you. I do appreciate all your help.
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Hi everyone,
New to the forum... My Hero's on it's way so I've been reading about rooting, etc, on this great forum I found . Never had an HTC before so not sure I really know what rooting is, but I'll soon give it a go and bust the phone or end up being able to do bluetooth file transfer!
Now to my question! I have my email all through my own domain, but run by/hosted by Google using google apps.
So I use a Googlemail webmail interface to collect my emails, but access it through mail.mydomain.com and get emails to [email protected] . My calendar works similarly.
Will this work with all the built in functionality of the Hero that ties in to Gmail accounts? Do I need to do a hack to do this, or will it work out of the box?
Thanks,
James
I use apps for domains too. Works perfectly except for buying software from the Market - had to open another account for that annoyingly.
Well, I've just recieved my Hero, and under my Google account, I entered my Google apps details, eg,
[email protected] and my relevant password. No luck It didn't recognise it. Off to do a bit of googling on the subject now, but any help on how to get it to sync with a Google Apps for Domains account greatly appreciated...
I can definitely guarantee you that it works. I use my domain with Google Apps for Domains, and the only thing that didn't work was paid apps on the market - even then, it knew that this was because I had an apps account and it asked me for a "normal" gmail account and would allow me to buy apps.
I suggest a full reset may be in order.
Regards,
Dave
Cheers
I just tried a hard reset and this time it worked when I entered the details as I booted up
Not sure if it's relevant but this is the "brown" HTV Hero from www.mobiles.co.uk
Loving the phone so far, really pleased it works with domains as that would have been a deal breaker!
Did I understand right, that the Hero asked for a normal gMail-Account in addition to the gApps-Account, if you want to buy software from the marketplace?
Or do I have to completely change to a normal gMail-Account if I want to buy something?
I'd like to keep my gApps-Account and have no problem to open an additinal gMail-Acc just for Marketplace.
meatmaker said:
Did I understand right, that the Hero asked for a normal gMail-Account in addition to the gApps-Account, if you want to buy software from the marketplace?
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Yes, this is correct. You still sign into the market using your gApps-Account, but you can't link a credit card to that account in the Market. In this case, all it does is asks you to authenticate yourself with a regular gMail account when checking out - all your apps are still linked in the Market to your regular gApps account.
Regards,
Dave
Probably a repost, but I didn't see it here. Anyone have the email app connected to Google apps working? Mine keeps saying cannot connect to server. I don't want to just use gmail app because its for my work email and I want to use the peak/off peak settings so I don't get notified of every work email while sitting at my work computer.
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If you mean a using a gmail account in the stock email app yes i do because the stock email app allows you to embed images and no other client or app does. I have no issues with this account in stock email app.
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I have the exact same issue as the OP and there are a couple of threads (somewhere?) with no resolution.
Before everyone chimes in with "My Gmail works fine" the problem is with google apps accounts. That is a google email account with your own domain that you most likely pay for or use with business accounts.
It is a really frustrating bug. You put in the correct credentials and setup works fine but upon returning to the mail screen the app just says 'Cannot connect to ACCOUNT"
One possible workaround is to use the mail app from the galaxy note or similar devices as described in a thread in the themes/apps section but you loose the peak/offpeak settings.
If anyone has any more info please chime in!
paulg1981 said:
I have the exact same issue as the OP and there are a couple of threads (somewhere?) with no resolution.
Before everyone chimes in with "My Gmail works fine" the problem is with google apps accounts. That is a google email account with your own domain that you most likely pay for or use with business accounts.
It is a really frustrating bug. You put in the correct credentials and setup works fine but upon returning to the mail screen the app just says 'Cannot connect to ACCOUNT"
One possible workaround is to use the mail app from the galaxy note or similar devices as described in a thread in the themes/apps section but you loose the peak/offpeak settings.
If anyone has any more info please chime in!
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Right now I'm using IMAP and it works....but the whole point of exchange active sync was to utilize the peak and off peak settings while I'm at my desk so I don't get duplicate emails and it saves battery as well.
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I think lots of people here hold back a little bit on how much data they expose to google. I have a specific question. When apps access address book, what address book are they accessing? The phone address book? What if it's a tablet, which has no address book, is it access your google contacts?
YOUR ACCOUNTS
FIND ACCOUNTS ON THE DEVICE
Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the tablet. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed. Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the phone. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed.
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I have an account used specifically for playstore and my tablet and phone. I also access my personal gmail through my tablet or phone, using a different account. Does that mean that Angry Birds knows about both the account used by playstore AND my personal gmail account?
Is there a better way to protect my personal gmail account?
Thanks!
coachclass said:
Hi,
I think lots of people here hold back a little bit on how much data they expose to google. I have a specific question. When apps access address book, what address book are they accessing? The phone address book? What if it's a tablet, which has no address book, is it access your google contacts?
I have an account used specifically for playstore and my tablet and phone. I also access my personal gmail through my tablet or phone, using a different account. Does that mean that Angry Birds knows about both the account used by playstore AND my personal gmail account?
Is there a better way to protect my personal gmail account?
Thanks!
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Is your device rooted?
If yes, you may use LBE Security, the current translated Version from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422479 (mandatory for JB!).
With this app you can restrict all permissions for every app on you phone.
Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
Well, more years ago than I can remember I pretty much linked all of my emails to Gmail, so I've had this functionality across all platforms since then.
For as long as I can remember the android app has also let me choose which of these addresses to send from.
I'd recommend that approach tbh.
Can be done from the site. This app-feature lead me to it so that was useful. But I can read all the email accounts by anything accessing the gmail, Android and desktop applications.
Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Has anyone figured out how to Gmailify more than one account. I want to Gmailify both my hotmail account and my yahoo account. I can do either, but not both. Very silly limitation.
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Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
DrGreenway said:
Hmmm, I am not running into this limitation. I am able to gmailify multiple accounts no problem.
>Open the gmail app
>Tap the menu (Three bars in top left corner)
>Tap the dropdown menu to view your accounts
>Tap add account
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That's not gmailfying, thats just adding an account to the gmail app (which has been around for years). Gmailifying means gmail completely takes over, when you open gmail (from any device) you will have the mail from the gmailified account alongside your gmail. Adding an account the way you describe is just local on the app. What you need to do is "link" an account, not just add an account. To do this, after you add an account, go into the setting and chose link to gmail. However, if you already have 1 account linked it will tell you that you can't have another one linked. I hope this makes sense.
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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OP gave up.
I have a terrible solution for your problem!
Just use 2 different users on your device, have 2 different sets of apps. With 2 different Gmailify apps, you can link both accounts separately. Will it work? Am I genius or a fool?
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Nope. Doesn't work. ?
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Nope. Doesn't work.
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Awww, sorry ಥ_ಥ
DrGreenway said:
Gmail Feature: Gmailify
There's a %100 chance that you already have and use Gmail on your Android phone. So I'm not going to exactly blow our mind when I tell you about this app. However there is a new feature that was announced recently that might have gone under the radar for some of you. "Gmailify" is the horribly named new feature that lets you use any Yahoo or Hotmail email address with the Gmail app and take advantage of all of your favorite Gmail features.
Now I can consolidate both my @Live and @gmail addresses in one app. The Gmail client has always been my favorite app to use for email. So I much prefer to use this than a third party client to consolidate my accounts.
To get stared just add a new account like you would normally and you'll see the option to add your @Live and @YAHOOO accounts. Check out this video that was uploaded to Google's YouTube channel.
Download Gmail
How many of you will take advantage of this feature?
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Well there's a 0% chance that I ve ever used the gmail app on my devices. I'm playing with CloudMagic email app now, it does what I want it to with all my email addys across the spectrum (course the stock Samsung email app did most of that, but wasn't installed on this custom rom)
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Guys Guys!!!
I was just using my gmail account on my device and i was free at the time. I just thought to see what security tabs are for.. i just opened the Privacy tabs of Gmail in My Activity i am shocked what i saw there..
Gmail account is keeping its eye on what we do with our device.
Like if we just click on camera on mobile it records,
If we open whatsapp,Contacts,Instagram, Facebook,UC browser everything is recorded by time,
When we use Google Voice typing or Google Assistant it even record our voice and save in gmail,
Its monetaring everything what we do what we search what our choices hates everything.
I have no worries if its safe in my own Account and never been shared with anyone untill i want.. but just saw so many news in Indian News channels where they say that Facebook had sold user data to some companies..
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/...-cambridge-analytica-full-page-newspapers-ads
Im just worred what if our Gmail account user data information is shared with other peoples ???
Its totally personal because today everyone is using Mobiles as not only just a device to use but we use mobile as our soulmate ??????????
Our home Family Photos, Videos are in mobile.
And its not hidden from Gmail Obviously...!!
Untill now i had asked in my many questions on XDA about Custom Roms whether they are safe to use.. but when i saw My Activity of Gmail Account tab in My Account and when i go through by each tab of My Activity I now more worried about should i use Android or Not. Older Nokia 1100 was more better Mobile Phone to use. It was safe! At least it wasnt recording my each activity ????????????
We are not doing anything wrong but what about our personal privacy???
The day is not so far when same news will come in media like about Facebook has came.....
So is it secure to use Android ?
Or android with Gmail ?
I have disabled the web activity and all other stuff inc traffic. I tend to keep my location off. No doubt that they are keeping track of us. Our privacy is sold amongst various adv companies. Cheers.