Define default folders for sent, drafts etc

[crys]

Hi,

I'm not sure how Aqua Mail determines which folders are being used to save sent mails, draft, trash. Is there a way to define those myself as I'd like to use different ones?

Thanks
Chris

[Thomas]

In case of IMAP i think AM uses the predefined folders.
But you can define them with some limites by your self.
Account -> Options and folders -> Folders -> select the folder you want to configure

[Kostya Vasilyev]

The app uses:

1 - the IMAP "XLIST" extension, where the server says "this folder Foo is for drafts, and this folder Bar is the trash can".

2 - a predefined set of common names for these folders, like "Spam", "Junk", "Sent Items", etc. for those servers that don't support the extension (Yahoo, I'm looking at you).

Other than that, Thomas' answer is spot on, as usual. In the folder list window, tap one of those server folders that have a special meaning, and choose to "Sync with [ Sent ]", etc. as appropriate.

[rkalantri]

In case of IMAP i think AM uses the predefined folders.
But you can define them with some limites by your self.
Account -> Options and folders -> Folders -> select the folder you want to configure

Cant find a folder option in Settings Menu in aquamail. Where is it? I am using Aqua Mail Pro 1.2.4.0

My problem is Aqua mail is creating a new folder "Sent" while my default mail sent folder is "Sent Items", How do i manually configure folders, also i remember there was a option to link folders when i first created the account in Aqua mail.

@Kostya Vasilyev
Off topic for this thread, but i am also facing the problem of showing all mails as unread count but all my mails are read. It shows unread perfectly with iPhone default mail app, Mail for OSX, Outlook for Windows 7 and web interface of my email service. I am using in-house mail server and using a software known as Postmaster Enterprise as my email server. ( www dot postmaster dot in)
Screenshot attached.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

AquaMail does not create folders on the server. It uses the existing ones, based on XLIST and name heuristics.

However, in the UI, the three special folders are always shown with predefined names. You can check which server folders  they correspond to by in the account's Options and Folders / Folders, or just by long pressing one of these folders (and checking the top item).

On the unread issue: O2.pl, by any chance?

[rkalantri]

Kostya thanks for the super fast reply.

This may sound like novice but i am not able to figure out where is this menu (account's Options and Folders / Folders) all i can see is Settings/ and 16 options inside settings. (Screen shot attached.) Also one more problem is that [Sent] folder is syncing to folder "Sent Messages" which is not existent as i deleted that folder yesterday from my web interface. (Screen shot attached)
I think if i can map the folder from optios as suggested by you this will solve my problem.

For unread issue: I am not using O2.pl (though i read your post and have forwarded it to the Postmaster software support guys about the command you are using to fetch the number), I am using a software know as Postmaster Enterprise which is on my local mail server hosted on my machine. I have configured IMAP on my android and AM, The unread count is showing correctly on my iPhone, Mail for Mac OSx and Outlook for Windows 7.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

It's in the popup menu if you long press the account.

And please see the screenshot below for the easier way, by long pressing one of the special folders. It shows my Gmail account's Sent folder (which is in Russian -- Gmail server folder names are localized).

[rkalantri]

Thanks problem solved. I am really enjoying AM.

Not complaining but just a suggestion the long press is not very obvious.. and generally not associated with apps in android. Its a lot WP8 like 
I hope you can get that Account menu in three dot android guidelines.

Unread messages count issue, pl help.

Thanks again.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Yeah, Google also recommends against long press, but there doesn't seem to be room the three dots on the smaller screens.

[beaky]

Yeah, Google also recommends against long press, but there doesn't seem to be room the three dots on the smaller screens.

Slight digression perhaps, but yours is not the only app to use long press to bring up what would on a PC be a right click menu or 'context' menu. I really cannot see how else it can be done. It seems entirely natural once you have learned it. Keep using long press for context-menu functions.
 Move your finger to the 'dots' and the context has changed, so without a two-step process: set checkmark(s); apply menu action to selected item(s); a context menu is difficult to impossible.
Do they really want all app writers to put 'ticks' (checkmarks) on all items for which a context menu was appropriate. If so this is very odd for an OS that is meant to be used on tiny screens!

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Google recommends against long press context menus, but I agree that a context action mode is not appropriate for every case.

One of their rationales is that a long press is not indicated on the screen beforehand in any way.

Well, neither is a context action mode (they recommend using the long press to enter it).

Furthermore, I find the UI in Android 4's built-in apps and Google's other apps to be full of UI elements that the user is supposed to swipe, move, shift, tap, etc. --- and which (the UI elements) don't look as such, e.g. buttons.

This I personally find to be even more confusing.

Finally, a context action bar isn't that great for single item actions.

Let's say the user selects two or more accounts, what then? An icon to delete them all? Not a common use case at all. And an account set icon (if there was one in a context action mode) would have to be hidden when the second account is selected. Not very intuitive either.

[beaky]

Well an interesting thing about long press just came up. The keyboard has just been updated. I have never tried to to change this from the delivered one, but it now uses long presses to enter figures and àæãä accented letters. More than half of the letters on the English keyboard have what amounts to a menu attached, if you use a long press.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Don't know which keyboard you're using, but Swype (my personal favorite) has always done this.

It's silly of Google to recommend against long pressing so strongly. UI patterns come and go in waves, almost fashion-like. I recall Google+ using side swiping a lot, which was replaced by a plain drop-down menu a few updates later (the "all/favorites/circles" thing).

Now side-pull navigation panels are all the rage, it seems (and as a side thought, the latest YouTube app is too complicated for my little brain, I can't figure it out anymore).

And as was already mentioned by @beaky above, "large" computers have right click (or option+click, or mouse(pad) gestures), and I don't see Windows or Mac users dying in droves because of it

[beaky]

Don't know which keyboard you're using, but Swype (my personal favorite) has always done this.

It's silly of Google to recommend against long pressing so strongly. UI patterns come and go in waves, almost fashion-like. I recall Google+ using side swiping a lot, which was replaced by a plain drop-down menu a few updates later (the "all/favorites/circles" thing).

Now side-pull navigation panels are all the rage, it seems (and as a side thought, the latest YouTube app is too complicated for my little brain, I can't figure it out anymore).

And as was already mentioned by @beaky above, "large" computers have right click (or option+click, or mouse(pad) gestures), and I don't see Windows or Mac users dying in droves because of it

Google keyboard version 1.1.1881.801980

I hope this means their version numbers are structured and not just incrementing!

[Kostya Vasilyev]

That version number looks to me like it was released on August 1st 1980, or maybe January 1st 1881.

Google Keyboard, Steampunk Edition.