Turning off address and server name rewriting

[Charles Buckley]

It was suggested that I try K-9, which seems to address many shortcomings of Google mail.

When I did, I noticed a really bizarre behavior -- when I'm entering an email address or a server name during setup, K-9 will change '.' to '.com' or do even more bizarre things with IMAP and SMTP server names.  This may be considered a good thing for people in the US who all think the same way, but outside the US; the conventions are different, so it just leads to trashed email addresses and server names. 

Is there any way to turn this 'feature' off?   I walked the menus and read the documentation, but didn't find anything.

Thanks,

Ch.

[Andy Figueroa]

That must be your advanced Andrioid device talking. K-9 does no such thing.
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[Charles Buckley]

Hi Andy,

 

Thanks for the quick answer, but I’m not sure I believe it.  The evidence to the contrary is:

1.       When I set up gmail, I typed in lots of server names, and have been using gmail pretty regularly, entering addresses.  No such changes happen.

2.       Some of these changes are pretty email-specific, so I would suspect rather the mail program than the phone operating system.  Let’s say that the unitary server for one of my mail accounts is ‘irgl.mrp.eu’ (I’ve changed the name, but it’s similar in form – notably there is no .com anywhere in sight).   When I set up gmail, I could enter this server name unchanged.  When I set up K-9, for the incoming server, the server name was changed to ‘imap.ergl.mrp.comeu’ and for the outgoing server, it was changed to ‘smtp.ergl.mrp.comeu’.  Somehow I have a hard time believing that Android itself would be doing such a thing. 

 

With such community-developed software, sometimes not all those involved are ‘in the picture’ about what others are doing.  I’ve cleaned out my share of ‘rogue commits’ in my day. 

 

So are you sure this is not a K-9 feature?   If it is, it would be great to have it turn-offable.

 

Charles Buckley

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[Andy Figueroa]

I'm sure enough. I've set up K-9 dozens of times over the years and not experienced anything like this in it. Most of my accounts are not .com.
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[Gunter Königsmann]

My android keyboard tries to help me by adding a "com" if I enter a dot at the end of a web address. My guess would be that there are more helpful keyboards out there.

Kind regards,

Gunter.

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[Charles Buckley]

But with me it only ‘helps’ in K-9.   In Chrome or something, there are no unwanted additions.

 

I am using a US keyboard, and US Android 8 phone.  But still it misbehaves.

 

The worst thing when using K-9, is it does this for email addresses.  For example, jan...@polcon.pl becomes jan...@polcon.compl.  So it’s not just for web addresses.    But in gmail, there is no unwanted address augmentation.

 

Ch.

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[David W. Jones]

I've never encountered that in K-9. That's why I don't think it's a K-9 feature. Maybe there's an option in Android settings to turn off autocompletion?

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[Gunter Königsmann]

Perhaps the browser's search-and-url bar isn't sure if it expects search terms or an URL and therefore doesn't tell the keyboard what it died expect while k9 knows it wants an URL and therefore requests one causing the keyboard to get helpful.
Unfortunately every single cellphone programmer tries to make this cellphone helpful in a different way.