Android Collection-11 : Get An Email Client

If you are an android guy, you might probably noticed that the default (integrated) Email client isn’t really a good one. In my opinion, it’s one of the few drawbacks of Android OS. The default app is to slow and unreliable. Hopefully Google have placed the app on their to-do list, and in the future they improve. But fortunately for now there are alternatives available on the Android Market, which also happened to be free of charge to use. Therefore we have created a list of the best alternative Android Email apps. All apps in the list have at least the same basic functionality as their standard counterparts but tend to also have a few extras thrown in. So here they are! Now I am sharing 6 of them. As you can see it’s the 11th post in “Android Collection” section.

 

 

1. K9 Mail

K9 Mail is perhaps the most familiar Email client app for android.POP3 and IMAP is available with K9, whilst users can access their various email accounts such as yahoo account etc. A search function to locate Emails is also provided as well as Push Email and there seems to be no problems when using push email on various free Email providers. And lastly there is a search function incorporated into the app which can locate Emails.

 

 

2. Maildroid

This free Email App can read POP3 and IMAP emails and has Push Mail incorporated into the app. Various free Email providers like Yahoo, GMX, Hotmail, AOL and Gmail are supported by Maildroid, it also allows users access to as many accounts as they want. Received Emails with attachments can be saved directly onto your SD card.

 

Features

• Complete re-write and not based at all on the standard Android mail client
• IMAP Idle Push
• Save/Download Attachments to SD card
• Settings Support for signature, font size, ring tone, led color etc.
• Custom Rules
• Spell Check
• Search
• Password Protection
• Exchange 2003,2007,2011
• Much more.

 

 

3. Profimail Email Client

I hope you are not unfamiliar with the “Lonely Cat Games”. Profimail is an android product from this great developer group. The Profimail Email Client will not leave users wanting as it includes most features that other Email apps have on this list. POP3, IMAP, push – it has everything you need on board whilst also coming with a well-functioning IMAP synchronization. The app even has its own address book and is also able to open zip files. But the optics of the Profimail Email Client is still in need of improvement.

 

Features

• Automatic synchronization of messages with the mail server
• IMAP folders
• Attachments - view, save, send
• HTML messages with images and hyperlinks
• Built-in File Explorer
• Push email - instant notification about new messages (using IMAP IDLE)
• Address book
• Signatures
• Support for POP3 / IMAP / SMTP mail servers
• Writing mails using T9 dictionary (if available on phone)
• Multiple email accounts
• Rules and filters allowing selective message download
• Opens and browses ZIP archives
• Support for various character encoding - Western, Cyrillic, Central European, and more
• Build-in image viewer for JPG, PNG and other popular formats
• Text viewer for standard text, HTML and Word documents
• Optimized for GPRS - get headers first, then download message bodies which you really want to see
• Access Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail, and other webmail accounts’ via POP3 or IMAP support
• Scheduled message download
• Sound notifications

4. Shangmail

While the first versions of Shangmail didn’t not look as if the email client could be a serious alternative to the standard Email program found on Android. With it being too unstable for regular use. But these problems were eventually fixed through updates and since then a large number of people have come to make use of this Email app. In terms of how well it functions, it can now easily keep pace with the other apps presented here.

Free push mail with Multilingual, which brings you instant experience.

Support Max 10 mailboxes;
Html mails: Support pictures shown in text and you can read the original mails;
Attachment support: Send Mp3, Jpg, PPT, Excel, Word and PDF attachments;
Attachment preview: Preview documents without downloading, and save flow of download;
Attachment download: download and edit the attachments in Emails.
Suspend send-receive Email at the standby unattended time;
Email signature and personal settings can be done as you like;
Filtering settings and blacklist functions available.

 

 

5. Improved Email

The Improved Email app is less a standalone Email app, but rather a drilled version of the standard Android Email client. Thus Improved Mail has all the basic functions, but is more stable and faster than the pre-installed email Android App. To use Improved Mail, you must have at least Android 2.2 (Froyo) installed on the smartphone.

 

6. Exchange for Android 2.x

If you have Android 2.0 and up and looking for Exchange client specifically then its the best option. Apart from email, it can sync calendar, contacts and tasks also. It also supports some Enterprise Mobile Device Management systems like Sybase Afaria, AirSync and FiberLink.