FairEmail is an open source privacy orientated email app
“Setup was IMAP credentials for each of my personal accounts. There’s no account to create with the developer or a sign-in step before you can reach your inbox. Two things in the listing made it appealing to 1 million+ users, including me. The app requires no special permissions, and it doesn’t use Firebase Cloud Messaging, which is how most Android apps receive push. Instead, it holds an IMAP IDLE connection open to the mail server, so new messages arrive without Google in the middle. It’s also the lightest mail client I’ve installed in years.”
Yes, this is not for connecting to business accounts (unless they have a plain IMAP login) but it is really ideal for keeping your mail private more private. Too many services today want to suck everything up, either to protect the children, or to “enhance their offerings to you”.
It’s true this makes little difference if you actually have your mail service at Microsoft or Google, but I recently moved to Zoho Mail. It costs me around R115 per year (that is like US$8 or so) which is perfectly affordable, and they are not in the business of pushing ads into your mail, or hoovering it up for AI, etc. On my desktop I use BetterBird (a fork of Thunderbird) that pulls my mail and consolidates it into a combined inbox. I also use my personal domain name with my mail so I can switch providers later if I want to, without having to change my e-mail address everywhere.
I’ve realised we have to push back against getting locked into everything all the time. We lose our privacy, we kill competition, and we lose our freedom to move away easily.
See androidpolice.com/permanently-…
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