Synchronization for offline-use

[JPDohle]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Without Internet access (for example my wife and my children do not have mobile data on their Smartphones) the ikMail App is quite useless. Contents of folders cannot be displayed and only few mails can be opened. Writing a new mail is also not possible.

Describe the solution you'd like
It should be possible to enable an "Offline" mode.

Here it should be possible to configure which E-Mails are automatically synchronized on the device for offline use.
Possible criteria could be:

• Age (age of the mails in days to be synchronized)
• Folder (all folders or only a subset)

When writing a new mail it should be stored in a folder (Draft, Outbox, ...) and automatically send when Internet access is available.

The Android Gmail App for example allows the user to configure the days to be synchronized.
Folders are not selectable here.

[JorisBodin]

The first time you open a folder, the last 500 messages are retrieved, in batches of 50 messages.
The folders that are automatically synchronised when you open the application or receive a notification are INBOX, SENT and DRAFT.

For the creation of a draft without connection, we currently have technical problems that have prevented us from implementing it for the first version of the app.
We also need to be able to perform actions in offline mode...

But it's a very big project, which will be carried out in the future.

[JPDohle]

Thank you for the explanation.

But for me it seems that only the list of mails is synchronized, not the mail itself.

When I enable the Airplane mode and try to open a mail in Inbox folder which I have not opened before, I can only see gray blocks instead of the real contents.

For my use-case this is not helpful.

[JorisBodin]

It is only the list that is downloaded and not all the content of these messages, content that is downloaded on opening and then saved.

EXCEPT for new messages, because we have to download the entire message to display it in the notification. But you had the notification problem, it wasn't supposed to download the whole message.

[manuscule]

Hello @JorisBodin
Offline access to e-mails would be very useful right now... I can't read any of my e-mails because the service is down.

[manuscule]

The first time you open a folder, the last 500 messages are retrieved, in batches of 50 messages. The folders that are automatically synchronised when you open the application or receive a notification are INBOX, SENT and DRAFT.

For the creation of a draft without connection, we currently have technical problems that have prevented us from implementing it for the first version of the app. We also need to be able to perform actions in offline mode...

But it's a very big project, which will be carried out in the future.

Hello @JorisBodin , any news about this project ?

[JorisBodin]

@manuscule No news for the moment