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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 sgc »

bantunes wrote: post #4

Good it's open source and all that, but it's very hard to use and parse what's on the screen.

Yeah, I had to tweak a lot of settings to make it more readable. I still don't have everything perfectly the way I would like. But it is highly configurable.

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

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Post by aorth »

fungos wrote: post #110

I've been using SimpleMail. Seems to have all the same features as FairEmail but without banners and paid Pro-version.

Do you mean SimpleEmail? https://framagit.org/dystopia-project/simple-email

It kinda looks like it is based on FairEmail...? Even parts of the readme have the same language.

edit: it seems it is a fork. This is addressed in the SimpleEmail FAQ: https://framagit.org/dystopia-project/simple-email/blob/mast...

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

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Post by igorstellar »

This is amazing, happy to support! I have a question: when developing an app with strong privacy guarantees, how do you handle analytics and crash reporting? E.g what if some group of users gets some weird error in a use case, or what if the app crashes? How do you figure and fix such issues? Many thanks for the app!

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

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Post by upofadown »

deckard1 wrote: post #66
rexreed wrote: post #39

Am I a weirdo for using POP mail on an Android? I don't trust any third party with storing my email. Is there a reason why I should move to IMAP? I mean I know the technical reasons. But it says on the FairEmail page: "FairEmail might be for you if you value your privacy." and also says "works with virtually all email providers, including Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo!" For me, privacy is more than what's on the client -…

If you don't trust Google to store your email, I have bad news for you. You will never escape having some of your email stored on Gmail servers. Most people you email are using a gmail address, whether direct or via forwarding. End-to-end encryption is your only true ally. In this regard, email is hopeless. I personally feel that all these privacy mechanisms on top of email are a) hopelessly pointless and b) give peo…

There is nothing particularly insecure about encrypted email these days. The network stuff is all TLS protected. Pretty much the same as encrypted XMPP. There is nothing broken about SMTP.

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

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Post by upofadown »

muppetman wrote: post #68
safaci2000 wrote: post #65

it looks like a cool project though what I'd love to see is some solution that makes PGP/Secure Email more accessible to the common person. I know hushmail, tutanota, and protonmail are all around, but still only works if everyone is on the same service. it's interesting how secure email has been solved decades ago (how to do it) but making it accessible has been an ongoing struggle. :( Anyone ran across a more tangi…

Why use PGP when there are such better alternatives these days? Signal springs to mind immediately. PGP is clunky in every way. I know I can readily communicate with almost every one of my workmates securely using Signal or WhatsApp. None of them would have anything other than a passing idea of what PGP was, or how to use it. 20 years ago when there was no better solution, PGP was great. But I think it's probably had…

Signal is an instant messenger. So kind of apples to oranges. Email is inherently more secure as it is asynchronous and can be done offline in a secure environment.

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:emailvsim

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

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

muppetman wrote: post #102
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that a good interface is missing... But the protocol has all the capabilities needed. Nor is full support of every feature needed by every client. I think from a crypto strength perspective, it,s silly to reinvent the same thing over again. (The thing being basic PKI of just public/private keys and signed/encrypted messages.)

PGP is the giant, the shoulders of which many modern crypto apps/protocols stand on. PGP was the implementation that brought proper, trustable crypto to the masses. It was a great solution, filling a void where there was no good solution before it. It's time is done though, for communicating between people. There are many better solutions where you don't need to worry about having the public key of every person you w…

Is that why most serious tech people I've seen list their PGP key on their site?

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

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Post by Mailtemi »

syncbehind wrote: post #114
andrewshadura wrote: post #84

No JMAP support?

Does anything have JMAP support outside of Fastmail?

Here is a link to support him. https://github.com/jmapio/jmap/blob/master/software/software... As far as I know, at least one of the European countries requires it for some new projects.
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