Re: Android 11: App polling interval is not 15 minutes minimum?

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
 

So using BlueMail or K-9 Mail on *Android* as an *extra* mail client,
can solve your problem of *manually* polling your *Spam* folder when
you expect, but don't see/get the email with the 2SV code in your
Inbox.

 
After delving into their online articles, I found:

  You didn't have to delve into it, I told you both could do a manual
poll.

[...]

https://bluemail.me/help/tutorial/
Refreshing the Mail List
To refresh the Mail List, pull the screen down (swipe your finger from
the top of the screen downwards)
 
So, it's there although called refresh instead of poll or fetch.  It's
there, but not obvious, plus I'm likely to pull down the notification
shade.  App devs seem to think you just miraculously divine how to
operate them.

  I called it 'manual poll' (of your 'Spam' folder), because 'refresh'
is an ambiguous term in this context. Refresh *what*?

  It's nearly impossible to "pull down the notification shade", because
you can pull down anywhere in the messages area, probably 70% or  so of
the screen. *And* there are two other ways to refresh, a - blatantly
obvious - little button in the upper right and a menu choice in the
upper right menu.

  Moral: (As I said it could do the job,) It would have been much
simpler just to try the app, instead of 'delving' into the app's
documentation.

[Much more deleted.]

Instead of installing another e-mail app, or switching to the Gmail app,
or wading through menues to get at the Sync button to circumvent long
fetch intervals on the Junk folder to see false positives, like 2FA
codes, I might as well as install the bank's app which I've done.  While
there is no external app lock available in Android to put on the bank
app, it does require me to use a fingerprint and enter a 4-digit PIN.
Eh, guess that's okay.

  A perfectly good choice.

I asked the bank about TOTP with their Android app.  They don't know, so
how their app authenticates is unknown.