PPCGeeks - Attachments

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- - Attachments (http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=125903)

You do not need a market place app to download attachments. You might however want to DL from market place, an app called Documents to Go, which is a good program for viewing Spreadsheets and Documents. The program that comes on the phone for this, seems a bit limited, to the point that I could not open a particular word document from my storage card with it, but after I installed Documents to Go, I could use that program to view the same file the on board view would not open.

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Originally Posted by MarcusInMD (Post 1827440)

After extensive research, the only way I found to be able to do this is to download an app from the market. Do a search for "Save Attachment" and you will find several programs that will allow you to save attachments from gmail/mail programs. The one I downloaded works perfectly.

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Originally Posted by toddpedersen

From any EVO Mail account you have setup, you simply click on the right arrow next to the View Attachment indicator (Inside the email with the attachment. Next click on the paperclip and and choose Open or Save to SD Card.

There is also a setting for each mail account that you can set to automatically download all attachments, or based on file size etc.

All attachments are saved to the Downloads folder on the SD Card.

You can download Astro or ES File Explorer, both of which are free file explorer programs that work well.

This way you can navigate to your SD Card to move files around or open them.

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Originally Posted by fr0st (Post 1827518)

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The mail app is different from the gmail app. Doesn't make sense that Google would make the app without these basic features.

You can't do that in the gmail app though. In the mail app yes. The mail app is made by HTC I think and the gmail one is made by Google.

That save attachment app works great though.

I reread the original poster, and do not see any reference to Gmail. I was assuming Exchange or POP/IMAP4 account like hotmail or yahoo.

Thanks for clarifying.

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Originally Posted by fr0st (Post 1827606)

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You can't do that in the gmail app though. In the mail app yes. The mail app is made by HTC I think and the gmail one is made by Google.

That save attachment app works great though.

Yea thanks guys I figured out that the gmail app can't but the regular mail app will allow you to open attachments

I stopped using the GMail app the first day because of these issues. It is made only for GMail... not any other type of email account... Instead I now sync my Gmail through the regular Mail application so I can have everything in one place...

Gmail app --> FAIL...

Actually that market app resolves gmail's shortcomings in that regard. Gmail is great because you can push gmail and you can fetch your pop email through it and it gets pushed to your phone too.