Feedback and Thoughts on K-9 Mail
hg
I have been using K-9 for almost three years, on tablets and on phones. At the moment, it is installed on one tablet and two phones and I use it many times daily to manage eight IMAP e-mail accounts, the busiest receiving ca 400 e-mails per day.
While the feature set is fine, and has been for quite some time, I have, also for quite some time, been very disappointed in the inability of the team to address bugs in a timely manner. It seems that there is greater interest in adding new features, pursuing the latest, and "greatest" features in Android, rather than offering a software package that works reliably with less emphasis on shiny stuff.
In other words, more substance and less glitz required, absolutely necessary for software addressing basic things such as e-mail management.
I am still on the previous version, 4.804, since I use it under both Cyanogenmod 7.2 (Gingerbread) and Cyanogenmod 10.2.1 (Androd 4.3.1.), the release cycle to fix existing bugs has been inadequate and many bugs remain, some of which are so severe that the program crashes the both versions of the operating system and no bug report can be sent. Let me underscore that with the heavy use it sees, I see more than 25 crashes a day.
In fact, K-9 has for a long time been the worst offender on any of my systems while also one of the most heavily used, a terrible combination.
Now with the latest release of K-9, which I cannot run on my tablet, I have begun looking for a replacement unless the team can release an update to 4.804 that also runs on Gingerbread and addresses the existing bugs.
With K-9 being an open-source project, I am hoping that there may also be someone, or, even better, a team, that would fork the program and fix bugs and other performance shortcomings. The common mantra for open-source projects is, and should be, to release often and quickly address bugs.
I would be willing to pay much more than the typical $1.99 price for such a program that would continue to be maintained, it would probably be worth $25 to me.
Looking forward to responses.
Voytek
On 1 October 2014 7:38:48 am AEST, hg <hag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I would be willing to pay much more than the typical $1.99 price for
>such a program that would continue to be maintained, it would probably
>be worth $25 to me.
>
>Looking forward to responses.
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Hakan Gadler
I just looked at recent comments on Kaiten - hardly an endorsement and no updates since March...
I need something that works. The user interface of 4.804 is just fine, the numerous bugs are not.
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