[APP][5.0+] FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app

[avalx]

Version 1.1900 is available on GitHub now and in the Play store test program after Google's approval (which is the main goal of this release).

Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases

My girlfriend is slowly recovering too

One of the best news in a while!

About continuity of your projects and especially the recovering of you girlfriend! I wish you both all the best in the future.

Thanks once more for all your amazing apps and your hard work.

 

[elchmartin]

@M66B

I think I got the pro version pretty much after I read about the app here on xda.
Really happy ever since. I think I also convinced a few friends and relatives, but dont really know if the heard my advice ;-)

Anyways, I am *incredibly* happy with the app and think I only got support once for activating the pro.

please continue developing this. It is maybe my most needed app.

 

[ROO3VER]

Receiving a notification this morning Version 1.1900 is available on Github i was very happy to see you regained the
motivation for an update.
This whole situation made a lot of people speak up and support you. For every 1☆ rewiew in the playstore there are probably a 1000 (or more)people who like Fairmail.
Maybe this whole thing happening was not that bad and maybe even necessary.

As a great Dutchman used to say:
Elk nadeel heb z'n voordeel
Read: every disadvantage has its advantage

 

[Irish_Dude]

I am currently on version 1.1899 and downloaded the latest github version 1.1900a but when I try to install, I get the error mrssage

"App not installed as package conflicts with an existing package"

Any idea what the issue is lads?

 

[M66B]

I am currently on version 1.1899 and downloaded the latest github version 1.1900a but when I try to install, I get the error mrssage

"App not installed as package conflicts with an existing package"

Any idea what the issue is lads?

You are likely trying to install the GitHub version as an update over the F-Droid version. This isn't possible because the digital signature is different.

 

[Irish_Dude]

You are likely trying to install the GitHub version as an update over the F-Droid version. This isn't possible because the digital signature is different.

Thanks Marcel

So what's the best way to install the new version without losing my settings and configuration?

Or should I just wait until the new version is pushed to F-Droid?

Lots of happy people on reddit and discord because you are back developing and 5* reviews are pouring in on Google

 

[M66B]

Thanks Marcel

So what's the best way to install the new version without losing my settings and configuration?

Or should I just wait until the new version is pushed to F-Droid?

Lots of happy people on reddit and discord because you are back developing and 5* reviews are pouring in on Google

You can either wait for a new F-Droid build, or uninstall the F-Droid build and install the GitHub release.

 

[de_Wolf]

If you have the PRO version, then proceed as follows:

- Export settings
- Uninstall F-Droid version
- Install GitHub version
- Import settings

Edit: [Oh, I was to slowly..., Marcel, you must not reply so quickly ]

 

[M66B]

If you have the PRO version, then proceed as follows:

- Export settings
- Uninstall F-Droid version
- Install GitHub version
- Import settings

+ authorize any Gmail accounts again via the quick setup wizard

 

[davidcc]

Hello @M66B

I just wanted to thank you for your amazing job! I'm a PRO user since 2020 and I don't now what else would I be using if FairEmail disappeared. I always used FairEmail from Github or F-Droid so now I can't see the app on the Play Store but once Google approves it again I will go there to give you 5 stars and also I will donate again, you deserve it.

Best wishes to you and your loved ones

 

[chris122380]

If you have the PRO version, then proceed as follows:

- Export settings
- Uninstall F-Droid version
- Install GitHub version
- Import settings

Edit: [Oh, I was to slowly..., Marcel, you must not reply so quickly ]

I would keep a backup of the export so if you need it for a future use. I make a export anytime I make any major changes to the settings or if I know I'm getting a new device or wiping the device I make a export as well. This way I have the settings and the accounts for whenever I may need them. I have nine email accounts but only really use two of them.

 

[4ndr0x]

When switching from Play Store build to F-Droid build, can I transfer my license? Bought via Play Store, but also donated to you via bank transfer in the past (not for pro features, just a normal donation).

As you might continue that project now (thanks for that!), I guess it might be better to avoid Play Store from now on?

 

[M66B]

When switching from Play Store build to F-Droid build, can I transfer my license? Bought via Play Store, but also donated to you via bank transfer in the past (not for pro features, just a normal donation).

As you might continue that project now (thanks for that!), I guess it might be better to avoid Play Store from now on?

You can't use a Play store purchase without the Play store, in any case I can't support his (Play store policies).

Regarding the bank transfer, please contact me via here:

https://contact.faircode.eu/?product=fairemailsupport

As an XDA moderator recently pointed out, this XDA thread is supposed to be about the free version of the app.

 

[DenyDarko]

Popular open-source email app is bound to return to the Play Store after updating its privacy policy

Google didn’t quite make clear what the issue was initially

www.androidpolice.com

There's the article

 

[4ndr0x]

Article from German news https://www.golem.de/news/nach-sper...n-fairemail-geht-doch-weiter-2205-165663.html

 

[ROO3VER]

Congratulations Marcel, Fairmail is famous

 

[M66B]

(German) 1* reviews like this "Spyware" do not really help to let the app return in the Play store, which is at this moment still undecided.

 

[M66B]

Congratulations Marcel, Fairmail is famous

I prefer "normal", so I can start developing again, which is at this moment hard given the sheer volume of messages I receive (including press inquiries, that is). What I want to do for myself, to satisfy my perfectionist nature, LOL, and to create opportunities for new features, is to write a new styled text to HTML converter. Currently, the app ships a modified copy of the Android converter , but this is not really ideal. In fact the latest version added some more "hacks" to fix some, but not all, bullet/number lists issues.

Your old and grumpy developer aka drama queen.

 

[chris122380]

I prefer "normal", so I can start developing again, which is at this moment hard given the sheer volume of messages I receive (including press inquiries, that is). What I want to do for myself, to satisfy my perfectionist nature, LOL, and to create opportunities for new features, is to write a new styled text to HTML converter. Currently, the app ships a modified copy of the Android converter , but this is not really ideal. In fact the latest version added some more "hacks" to fix some, but not all, bullet/number lists issues.

Your old and grumpy developer aka drama queen.

Someone else mentioned in this community (I can't remember who it was) that you might want to have someone else handling the communication and you the developing. This way you don't become so overwhelmed.

 

[nadir husain]

Someone else mentioned in this community (I can't remember who it was) that you might want to have someone else handling the communication and you the developing. This way you don't become so overwhelmed.

Marcel should make it something like the K9 or AquaMail forum where users help each other out and the developer only steps in a couple of days in a week or if there is a critical issue that no one else can answer.