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FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

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Re: FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

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Post by dilawar »

pw6hv wrote: post #3

Just switched from K9-mail to FairEmail. I was using the Google Play version of K9 so at the moment I am quite happy of the switch. There is only one thing that I did not manage to find in FairEmail which is the ability to read the header of emails. Like the whole information, from SPF, DKIM validation and so on. Does anyone know if it's possible to get this? For the moment I am planning to stay with FairEmail and ma…

Same here. I switched from k9 to bluemail to fairmail. Bluemail was good but proprietary solution. Fairmail is almost as good as bluemail. Though I still looking for 'share' email with an todo list app. Fairmail and Joplin works but Joplin is not my preferred to do app.

Re: FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

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Post by kitsunesoba »

CuriousNinja wrote: post #12

Does IMAP clients handle Gmail labels well? Last time I tried to use an IMAP client it treated all the labels as separate folders.

I may be wrong but my understanding is that this is just a limitation of Gmail's IMAP implementation. Every IMAP client I've tried so far displays tags as separate folders.

Re: FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

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Post by butt_hugger »

dlkmp wrote: post #7
pw6hv wrote: post #3

Just switched from K9-mail to FairEmail. I was using the Google Play version of K9 so at the moment I am quite happy of the switch. There is only one thing that I did not manage to find in FairEmail which is the ability to read the header of emails. Like the whole information, from SPF, DKIM validation and so on. Does anyone know if it's possible to get this? For the moment I am planning to stay with FairEmail and ma…

I'm using the FDroid version of K9. What do you like from FairEmail over K9?

One great feature is that when you add images in FairEmail, it removes metadata, renames the file and other privacy-preserving data.

Re: FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

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Post by gtf21 »

CuriousNinja wrote: post #12

Does IMAP clients handle Gmail labels well? Last time I tried to use an IMAP client it treated all the labels as separate folders.

I think this is down to the way Google implemented labels. I looked into this when I moved all my email off Google's servers and noticed they just list them as folders on IMAP, so a client would have to implement a special google-specific way of dealing with them. There are other ways to implement labels in IMAP (I've forgotten the exact details but I did it successfully while interacting with the IMAP server using `openssl s_client`).
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