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

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

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.

Told the option is available doesn't say HOW to do it.  I wanted to know
HOW before I installed.

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*?

Yeah, I thought "refresh" was a poor name for the fetch function.  I
suspect they don't want to use "poll", because some e-mail services let
you create a poll (voting) on a message.  Perhaps they thought "fetch"
was to technical.  "Refresh" to mean just mean to repaint the display.

  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

"swipe your finger from the top of the screen downwards".  That is their
description.  Poor documentation as typical for apps.  Andy mentioned
the same to avoid accidentally dragging down the notification shade.

little button in the upper right and a menu choice in the
upper right menu.

Alas, I never found any info showing an image of the app's screen with
pointers listing their functions.  I didn't find a Google Image where
someone had opened the menu to show what was in it.

  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.

If possible, and if there is any documentation of value, I prefer to
research an app before blindly installing it.

Thanks for the help, though.