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cketti

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About cketti

Open source developer, K-9 Mail maintainer

Recent public activity

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    Comment #27945171

    See https://forum.k9mail.app/t/cant-deny-contacts-permission-wit...

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    Comment #27944947

    If the team complained about their code base for _years_, I'd say the quality of the code base they started out with wasn't the only problem. Especially considering that you had th…

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    Comment #27944013

    > Also, can K9 do a "disable work emails outside of work hours" kind of thing? K-9 Mail has a "quiet time" feature that will not create notifications during the quiet period. It ap…

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    Comment #27943965

    The only change between 5.740 (available on F-Droid right now) and 5.800 are updated translations.

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    Comment #27943352

    We're doing a staged rollout. Current status available here: https://forum.k9mail.app/t/k-9-mail-is-back-5-800-release/11... Switching between the F-Droid version and the official …

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    Comment #27943108

    Thanks. https://github.com/k9mail/k9mail.github.io/commit/fc497cd565...

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    Comment #27942950

    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229#zippy=%2Ci-ca...

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    Comment #27942910

    "The release of the latest stable version of K-9 Mail (5.600) was in September 2018" https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail

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    Comment #27942806

    Most apps use a foreground service. Using that the app is treated like an app running in the foreground and not like an app running in the background. https://developer.android.com…

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    Comment #27942580

    The note is primarily there to let people know whether or not they can update to the latest version. K-9 Mail 5.600 supported Android 4.0.3 and newer.

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    Comment #26136850

    I understand it's difficult for a company to give money to an open source project. But none of the options you've mentioned sound very appealing to me. GitHub displays the avatars …

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    Comment #26133847

    K-9 Mail never had a PR or marketing person. But help in that area would certainly be welcome. What information would you like to find on the website exactly?

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    Comment #26132182

    > I definitely struggle to understand why IMAP IDLE is critical for a release. The functionality is present in the latest stable version, but needs to be reimplemented in the new v…

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    Comment #26132077

    Probably not the right app for your use cases, but check out Delta Chat for an example of how unobtrusive email encryption can be: https://delta.chat/

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    Comment #26131978

    Yes. This blog post contains a few screenshots: https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail