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POP email not retrieving messages
rick02840
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‎11-09-2009 11:52 PM

Having problem with my Motorla Droid whereby POP email account hangs on downloading new messages.   Says it is downloading but doesn't.  What fixes it is powering down phone and powering on again.  Gmail does not have this problem.

 

Separatley, I sure hope later versions have delete all functionality for email. My Blackberry had that.

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difrompi
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‎11-09-2009 11:54 PM

Bump.  I'm having the same issue.

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tdavisjr
Newbie
‎11-10-2009 01:08 AM

Same here.  GMail just fine. But, when I try Windows Live Mail, I initialy get my first few messenges; but I don't get anyting after that.

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difrompi
Newbie
‎11-10-2009 02:10 AM

As I'm sitting here watching this painfully boring Steelers game (hockey is so, so much better...), I came across this "fix."  Take out your battery for a few minutes.  Try it again.  It worked for me.  For now...  This cannot be a regular thing, though...

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Re: POP email not retrieving messages
zekeman
Newbie
‎11-10-2009 06:49 AM

I'm having the same issue.  I did the battery swap out once or twice, but that got old.  I finally downloaded Toggle Setting and have been killing the email process every time I find it hanging.  That seems to do the trick for a short while, but then it'll eventually start up again.

 

It's a little annoying to be honest.  If there are 2 things these phones should be able to do it's - make phone calls and retrieve emails.  Phone calls have been good so far, but I'm far from pleased with the quality of the email.

 


Anyone know if this is an Android Bug, Verizon firewall issue or something else?

 

Z.

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bobcus
Newbie
‎11-10-2009 06:53 PM

Same Problem. It gets hung up connecting to the incoming POP server. Occasionally comes back for a while if you wait long enough. The only way to force recovery is hard reset.

 

Just waiting for a bug fix...

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Re: POP email not retrieving messages
rjones
Newbie
‎11-10-2009 06:56 PM

This, thank goodness, is not one of the problems I have. The DROID email client has worked flawlessly for me with my astound.net email account, which I use more than anything on my smart phone. It would never work on the Treo.

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SSHGuru
Contributor - Level 1
‎11-10-2009 08:30 PM

Same issue here.  Woke up to no emails and had to do a battery pull.   I think turning it off and on will also work.

 

They do need a fix for this it's a pain.

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androidtapp
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‎11-10-2009 08:38 PM

What email client are you all using for POP3 email?

 

Is your POP3 account on personal/company web servers?

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SSHGuru
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‎11-10-2009 08:41 PM

I use Comcast POP and Godaddy POP and One other one for a business...

 

So it's a universal issue.

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