E1e12e·Jul 25, 2021
Seems the bug will be prioritized?
https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/3868
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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)
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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)
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> what I love about K-9 whenever I've used it: configurability I'm using K-9 but I cannot say configurability is the app's strongest point. For example, when getting a…
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What Hacker News says
5 sourcesHere it is: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/857
The issue is even older than I thought, though I was pretty sure the requirement for a notification specifically appeared around Android 8 or 9.
Also, seeing as K9 doesn't look to be anywhere near frequently updated, I'm not expecting this to change soon.
In FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for AndroidIt's a bit annoying that you can't make F-Droid auto-update to latest when the "suggested" is not the latest.
The version is also split on GitHub[1] and I can only guess why.
[1]: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9
In K-9 Mail is looking for funding>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.
As a caveat here, at least in the non-beta version, support for PGP signatures is intentionally crippled because the original author dislikes them and apparently wants to push encryption (eg, https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/2375), ignoring everyone who points out that this feature may be important or required by policy for them. By default, PGP signatures on unencrypted emails are silently hidden and the emails are displayed as being unsigned. There is no way to sign emails by default, and trying to sign an email results with a popup telling you not to.
In K-9 Mail is looking for fundingHave you looked at the beta versions yet? The UI was overhauled over basically the last 1.5 years and the points mentioned in the blog post are the bits missing to release that as a stable version (IMAP IDLE mostly): https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases
I've been running the betas since more than a year without any problems whatsoever. (If you don't need push obviously)
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