Hi there im new to nextcloud and im wondering if its possible to show emails in the Nextcloud mobile Client? (iOS/Android App)
I can only see my Cloud/Files. But cant find a way to show mails like on the Web Version (when i connect to the Nextcloud via Browser)
What am i missing here?
Thanks for help
Mobile App:
Nextcloud server is providing multiple features like Files, Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Email. Those features mostly provide developers tools and add an user interface for web app.
Because the nextcloud android/iOS app are different app with different codebase (they aren’t based on
existing nextcloud web app), every features must be implemented from scratch one by one.
For now only Files and Photos features are implemented on the main official android app.
Other developers created different android app for other nextcloud features (Photos, Deck, Talk, Cookbook and so on).
So because they are not sharing the same codebase, features between iOS/Android/web app may differ.
@Douban @bot_axel
Normally you configure in the Nextcloud mail app an external mail server e.g. with imap configuration. On Android or iOS you must/can use also an imap client. On Android i use K9-Mail.
I understand where @Douban is coming from though.
for a regularity sake, I prefer using the same mail client on both PC and mobile.
it quickly gets too chaotic now, when I use Nextcloud as a mail client on my computer and then android’s built-in mail client (basically Gmail app) on my phone… whatever mail client app you use, when you alternate between two, sorting methods like tagging and flagging tend to get messed up. also just the vastly different interfaces can cause the users discomfort. if you get used to Nextcloud mail client and then have to hop between this on PC and something totally else, with a different design philosophy on your phone.
what I might add is even more confusing is, in the Nextcloud app’s sidebar, there’s a little mail icon under ‘more’. I’m not sure if it’s there to promote the idea that users can use whichever email client they want regardless of Nextcloud. but it made me at least think that I could somehow get the mail client app off Play Store…
The problem is perhaps that in Nextcloud Mail you have certain interfaces to other components of Nextcloud, which of course do not exist in a mail client on the smartphone.
I like to use SnappyMail (demo) but not the app in Nextcloud. Of course, the connections to Nextcloud are missing there. But I don’t need them either. I always obtain e-mail contact data from the e-mails received or sent. But you can also use CardDAV.
