K-9 Mail is looking for funding • Hacker News Board

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by jjav » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 9:43 AM UTC

spapas82 wrote: post #2

K-9 is a really great mail app for android! In my opinion it's the best app if you want to use a custom SMTP/IMAP server instead of using a solution like hotmail/google/etc. It also has PGP support (with the help of OpenKeyChain to manage certificates) that works great! There are no other well known solutions for applications supporting PGP in Android; this is huge. People that either want to avoid walled gardens or…

K-9 Mail is great indeed. Particularly that it is available on F-Droid as I don't want to create a google account so won't/can't use their playstore.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by mickotron » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 9:56 AM UTC

Just started $5 on github, cheers for the reminder

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by genewitch » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 11:19 AM UTC

kgwxd wrote: post #85

da_big_ghey wrote: post #28

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I don't know, the UI is good. I like the "Ice Cream Sandwich" look, honestly. I wonder if the time of an open-source project is best served by re-doing the UI just to keep up with trends.

I think it's rarely worth the effort, but eventually they're forced into it. I really hate the current mobile software ecosystem. Hope we get something like the xfce of mobile environments at some point where things don't really change for decades.

It really is too bad that the Nokia N800/810/900 series of devices were too little too late, because having what is basically an ubuntu desktop on a phone-screen sized tablet was awesome. Maemo was the original "OS" and was replaced by "Mer" and if i am not mistaken, at least as of 2019 both projects still exist.

If i ever pick up a librephone, pinephone, or something that can be switched to another OS, i'd like to try it again, even though i don't like using phones in landscape mode anymore. Maemo raised the bar so high on landscape orientation user interfaces that everything else is a joke.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by genewitch » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 11:23 AM UTC

daptaq wrote: post #13

mahmoudhossam wrote: post #3

I'm surprised there's no work being done on the UI on the roadmap, K-9 looks like an app from the "Ice Cream Sandwich" days of Android. With that being said, K-9 is the best Android app I've seen for mail that isn't made by Google. edit: it seems the work has already been done, thanks for the correction.

> I'm surprised there's no work being done on the UI on the roadmap, K-9 looks like an app from the "Ice Cream Sandwich" days of Android. TBH, that's actually a good thing. Material Design was a mistake.

What is Material Design and why was it a mistake? It's mentioned as being a part of a "fork" called pep in another comment, and viewing the screenshots it looks like google hangouts does/did.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by mqus » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 12:54 PM UTC

tubularhells wrote: post #109

jdboyd wrote: post #45

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I sometimes wish k9mail was available on the desktop.

Yeah, Thunderbird is a mess. I wish we had something better.

There is also evolution from gnome, which is a bit better imho

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by nichos » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 6:04 PM UTC

gifnamething wrote: post #61

SilasX wrote: post #60

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I'm a little miffed that this comment has a better explanation of "why I should care about K-9 Mail" than anything I could find from deliberately looking for that information on their site. The "about" page just talks about the team, and their blog posts, even the one "what's up with K-9?" just talk about release schedules.

The features are listed on the homepage

The features are listed, but they're not clickable for further details. Things like "light and dark theme" could show screenshots. In fact, I can't find any screenshots at all on their site, except for the one on the front page.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by tubularhells » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

mqus wrote: post #135

tubularhells wrote: post #109

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Yeah, Thunderbird is a mess. I wish we had something better.

There is also evolution from gnome, which is a bit better imho

It's even worse in my book.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by tubularhells » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

folmar wrote: post #117

tubularhells wrote: post #109

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Yeah, Thunderbird is a mess. I wish we had something better.

Try alpine. It is very similar in spirit, save for the lack of GUI.

Yeah, I need the GUI.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by tubularhells » Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 2:03 PM UTC

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #126

tubularhells wrote: post #109

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Yeah, Thunderbird is a mess. I wish we had something better.

I use eM Client, but it's not open source.

It needs to support Linux though.

Re: K-9 Mail is looking for funding

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Post by TwoNineFive » Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 5:32 AM UTC

stonesweep wrote: post #59

PSA: if you've not used it in awhile, use the betas via F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/ You have to click "Versions" from the F-Droid app and specifically opt-in (and upgrade) the betas, F-Droid will default to installing the older stable version. The betas are almost night (mode heh) and day apart, the UI and operations have almost a complete overhaul from the old days and it looks (and works)…

This comment fails to mention that the beta versions are totally fucking broke in many ways and don't even do IMAP IDLE. There's a reason they are still in beta.