# Recommend a free email that can be used with Android Op. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005 "2011-01-09T18:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/1 "2011-01-09T18:59:15Z")
Something that plays nice. Don’t need many bells and whistles. My Wife is getting a new Android phone and has never had an email outside of her work account. I use [hughes.net](http://hughes.net), but we are reluctant to build an email for her there. Hughes has some real problems. Hot mail? Google mail? Which, why and what others? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/2 "2011-01-09T19:04:28Z")
I’d go with Google mail, since Android is a Google product, and the integration between Gmail and Android is pretty much guaranteed to be easy & straight forward. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/3 "2011-01-09T19:12:20Z")
Gmail works very well with Android. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/4 "2011-01-09T21:10:21Z")
Yeah, GMail, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/5 "2011-01-09T21:18:13Z")
I use Yahoo Mail’s app with my Yahoo Mail account. Works fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/6 "2011-01-09T21:26:28Z")
Gmail works very well indeed on my Android. The native app is excellent. Recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/7 "2011-01-09T21:35:17Z")
Gmail, duh. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/8 "2011-01-09T23:45:02Z")
Ummm… yeah. And a duh on my part. Gmail it is. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/9 "2011-01-10T00:02:20Z")
The email app that’s built in plays nicely with most POP3 and IMAP accounts. K9 deals with some of the bugs that the native app chose to ignore, plus it works with gmail. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/10 "2011-01-11T16:27:43Z")
If she’s getting an Android phone, it might require her to have a gmail account before she can activate it - at least mine did, about 14 months ago. My husband set up a throwaway account since he already has one he uses, but one was needed to go through the activation setup. My info is old, though - they might have changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/11 "2011-01-11T16:56:40Z")
Gmail is the only e-mail client worth using period, mobile phone or not. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/12 "2011-01-11T18:16:30Z")
I got my Android phone a few months ago (Samsung Captivate)…I don’t think a Gmail account was required, but signing in with your Gmail account was part of the initial setup. I’ve had no problems using Gmail on my phone. Getting my Roadrunner account to work with the built-in email program was a bit of a challenge, but it’s fine now. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/13 "2011-01-11T19:20:25Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > If she’s getting an Android phone, it might require her to have a gmail account before she can activate it - at least mine did, about 14 months ago. My husband set up a throwaway account since he already has one he uses, but one was needed to go through the activation setup. > > My info is old, though - they might have changed it. They required me to create a Gmail account as well back in July. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/14 "2011-01-11T21:11:15Z")
I had to get a gmail account when I bought my droid last month. Works well. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/15 "2011-01-13T23:38:24Z")
Another vote for Gmail. It took 2 seconds to set it up on my Droid X and my wife’s Incredible. What more can you ask for than seamless integration? ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/16 "2011-01-14T00:10:56Z")
Gmail can also pull emails from your wife’s work account and send messages from it, all from the same Gmail website or Android app. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-free-email-that-can-be-used-with-android-op/567005/17 "2011-01-14T01:07:54Z")
Yes, since she will have to make a google account to use her phone anyway, might as well use the email portion of that account. And just FYI, some Android phones (all of them?) have TWO email apps. One is just “email,” which will work ok, but the other is specifically the gmail app, so obviously plays nicer with gmail.