Keeps re-notifying / over notifying me of older emails

[Stop The Insanity]

The app continues to go back and dredge up old "unread" emails and notify me about them.  It is over notifying.

Some of these have been read but I marked them unread to remind me to go back and review them later.

But for some reason K9 mail chooses to remind me of older emails if there are no new emails to notify me of.

It's like a dog with a bone - "Look what I found! Can you read me now? How about now?"

It's annoying because I try to stay focused and only want to look at my phone when I absolutely need to.

Is there any fix for this?

[Sean Greenslade]

I've noticed that this will sometimes happen if you have a message limit
set on a particular account. Try changing the following setting to
"all messages":

Settings -> Account settings -> Fetching mail -> Local folder size

Hope this helps,

--Sean

[Stop The Insanity]

Sean,

Thank you for the tip.  You are correct.  I had all three of my email account Inboxes set to 100 emails max.

I set the largest to unlimited and it downloaded 860 emails - not what I really wanted, but the annoying reminders stopped.  I waited 24 hours to make sure, and all good.

Then I tried this - I set the large one back to 100 max, then set the smallest one to unlimited - and it downloaded the 25 emails that were in there. Still no annoying reminders after 24 hours.

It seems like the behavior is not email account specific - so that's good.

Thanks for the tip.

[Sean Greenslade]

On February 26, 2020 12:59:13 PM PST, Stop The Insanity <ba...@cookswell.com> wrote:
>Sean,
>
>Thank you for the tip. You are correct. I had all three of my email
>account Inboxes set to 100 emails max.
>
>I set the largest to unlimited and it downloaded 860 emails - not what
>I
>really wanted, but the annoying reminders stopped. I waited 24 hours
>to
>make sure, and all good.
>
>Then I tried this - I set the large one back to 100 max, then set the
>smallest one to unlimited - and it downloaded the 25 emails that were
>in
>there. Still no annoying reminders after 24 hours.
>
>It seems like the behavior is not email account specific - so that's
>good.
>
>Thanks for the tip.

I believe this is mostly intentional behavior. The "number of messages" setting only affects how many messages K-9 asks the server for (counting from newest backwards). It does not affect how many messages the local client stores, which is fine since they've already been downloaded and thus only cost local storage space.

The benefit of using the message limit is slightly less bandwidth (and thus battery) usage. The risk is that if you receive more messages than the download limit between syncs, you may "miss" a message. They'll still be on the server, and having push enabled makes this very unlikely to happen, but just be aware of the possibility.

--Sean