Android Email App

[swanysto]

I typically don't use my phone for work email, but I will be traveling a bit for work soon. My work emails are typically pretty large. I get about 10 emails a day over 10mb and 5-10 between 2-7mb. Being that I have a 4gb data plan with Verizon, I would rather not have those killing my data. The emails that I will need are not the large ones, but the simple ones. I haven't played with the android email app at all since I use the gmail app. Is there a way to set restrictions on accepting an email larger than say .5mb? I would try it, but all my mail from the last 10 days sits on the server, so if I add it to my phone, it will bring all those in.

If the android email app doesn't do that, is there a good mail client that does?

TIA

 

[vshah]

i believe the stock android email account won't automatically download attachments unless you're on wifi. you can disable that as well so it will never automatically dl attachments.

 

[obidamnkenobi]

i believe the stock android email account won't automatically download attachments unless you're on wifi. you can disable that as well so it will never automatically dl attachments.

I use Enhanced Email and I know it has a setting to only download attachments on wifi. So if that's the reason for the OP's large emails that would solve the problem..

 

[AFurryReptile]

All the stock android email apps I've seen have the ability to automatically download attachments up to a certain size that you can specify. If you make that size pretty low, everything above it will prompt you first before downloading.

 

[phantom404]

I use TouchDown with Exchange ActiveSync and it has an email size you can set. Mine is set on the default size which is i believe around 20kb. To download the rest you just click on the "Download Entire Message" button.