Android: best mail app for MLO?

TMZ

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Jun 25, 2020, 4:52:30 AM6/25/20

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When I get a mail and I want to create a MLO-task with my android phone app, I have to tap two times to create a forward mail from the original mail, then I have to tap to the „to“ field and write the first few letters of my MLO-adress, tap on the suggested adress, and finally tap to send the mail, so that a task will be created in my inbox.

Is there an (android) mail app, that can do that (=forward a mail to a preset mail) with on or max. two taps?

If not, it could be good if MLO could work with a mail app and recommend that app „official“.

(In another thread, I suggested a similar thing for windows; creating a MLO-Thunderbird-Addon)

struesda

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Jun 26, 2020, 8:04:49 AM6/26/20

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Another approach might be to create a label or folder called 'for MLO'. Then setup a rule to automatically forward any email you put in that folder/label to MLO.

Most email clients have the ability to move emails to a folder/label with very few taps. So this may be the quickest way to do it.

Dwight

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Jun 26, 2020, 12:31:43 PM6/26/20

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Hi. TMZ.

I dont know an app with a single tap to forward to a preset email address. But I would not use the task-by-email function to create tasks from emails received on Android because it's a lot easier, faster and accurate to use Android SHARE. What you need is a mail app that allows you to use the SHARE function with an email message. I am no expert on which email apps support SHARE; I know that Gmail does not, and that Aquamail does. I would imagine that most apps do, but I am just guessing.

With Aquamail, it takes three taps: tap the share icon (looks like an is-less-than symbol with warts), select "send-share-print message text" from the popup menu, and tap on the MLO icon. The next screen you see is the edit-task screen in MLO where you can select context, dates, importance, etc (but, sadly, not move task). When you click DONE you are back in the email program. And one bonus: the date and time created are the date and time from your current location. Task by email applies the Greenwich Mean Time, for me, that means these tasks are created five hours in the future which is usually slightly annoying but sometimes causes a problem especially after 7PM when the tasks are shown as being created tomorrow.