[Android Apps and Games] e5e197740b:
Good evening my friends from Germany!

I'm using the app for roughly three weeks now. The last week of it premium (the first time that I actually spend money on Android Apps).

And I love it. What I love the most is that it is the first Mail-App that actually keeps my mails in sync, without draining my battery senselessly or transmitting my passwords into the Firecloud.

Not being tracked, supporting Opensource feels nice too:) I already cannot imagine using anything else ever again. 5 Stars and a full-on laudation in the Play Store already done.

Nonetheless do I have some questions, whose answers did not reveal themselves to me in the FAQ, specifically about settings which seem to overlap/contradict themselves (I'm using it in German, with no apparent way to change it), behavior I cannot understand and a (maybe) missing shortcut that I wish could be implemented. I hope this is the place to ask for help. Please forgive me, if something has been asked before, but this thread is 1500+ pages long, in a language not resembling the app in front of me. If I repeat a common question, just point me to the right place, followed by the facepalm smiley, so I may learn my lesson. Additionally, let It be known I have a lot of accounts, which may explain my questions.

Concerning overlapping settings:

Every IMAP-Account has a setting "Keeping Connection / Fetching Interval (minutes)".

The general "Receiving" Tab has one too, ranging from always to daily.

It has a setting to "Automatically optimize" (right at the top) my frequency, and one at the very bottom (adjust activity interval automatically). I'm not sure in what those to differ.

First, I set everything to "always", with the in-account settings to the standard 15 minutes. Both auto-settings activated. Like described in the FAQ, FairMail recognized that AOL does not support IMAP-Idle and that Telekom sends a keep-alive every two minutes. So (one of the auto-settings) adjusted the general settings from always to 15 minutes, and put in exceptions in the now new menu for the remaining accounts.

Realizing that some accounts don't do IMAP Idle (those beeing fairly inactive anyway) I watched the APP for a while, and it keeps fetching every 15 minutes, like the setting says. So, I changed the per account settings to 120 minutes and 360 minutes respectively, to save some battery. But the protocol still shows 15-minute intervals for these accounts.

So now I'm quite confused: Does the "General Reception" interval override the per account setting?

Do I have to disable on of the two automatic settings?

What kind of IMAP server or user behavior would trigger the auto-adjust functions to use bigger interval for non-sync servers?

Maybe a few more clickable question marks behind some of the settings are a good idea, so that numbnuts like me get the hang of it quicker.

Behavior I cannot understand:

Sometimes, presumably when changing networks, but also when FairMail starts syncing again in the morning, the amount of "monitored accounts" in the notification bar is wrong. I mean, it is probably right in that that’s the amount of accounts monitored, but it should be higher, even after I subtract the obviously non-live-monitored servers. And it keeps that way for a while, even when the network does not change, and several off the self-optimized 15minutes intervals have passed. And it's not a fluke of the notification either, at least if I'm reading the protocol correctly.

A (maybe) missing shortcut:

The most obvious thing for me when setting up a new E-Mail Client on my phone for me would be to download all messages once at the beginning, with great connection and a charger nearby, and then just sync the new ones on a regular schedule, only updating the old ones manually, when I seem necessary.

I set up my accounts with mostly standard settings, and now all folders are set to 7/30, except Gmail, with is 7/90, for whatever reason.

Now I'd like to set ALL folders to 7/∞. Now it would be no problem to do that once per account, but the "Apply to all" setting only applies to the non-connected/non-bundled folders. That would mean I have to adjust 5-7 settings per account, not to mention starting an extended sync on every folder. Shouldn't there be a quicker way to do what I'm trying to do here? Or am I missing something?

Thank you, Marcel, for your great App, and thank you all for helping me along!

Cheers!