The app is still in the approval process of Google ...
So, that's unfortunately correct.
I will update here if the app gets approved:
https://faircode.eu/faq.html
So, that's unfortunately correct.
I will update here if the app gets approved:
https://faircode.eu/faq.html
Yay! Outstanding to hear the good news about your girlfriend and e-mail client, @M66B!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
Thank You!
(keeping my fingers crossed that NetGuard might be saved)
NetGuard is already available in the Play store again.
I paid for both FE and NG because I love what the apps do and what they represent. I'm so relieved to learn that the projects will live on.
On a side note, my version is 1.1887, and there don't appear to be any updated versions via the F-Droid app. But I know that newer versions have been released. What's going on?
On a side note, my version is 1.1887, and there don't appear to be any updated versions via the F-Droid app. But I know that newer versions have been released. What's going on?
I don't know, @Exmet. The (German) view in the F-Droid store shows the following version number regarding FairEmail:
Version 1.1899 (1899) proposed Added on 2022-05-22
f-droid.org
Version 1.1899 (1899) proposed Added on 2022-05-22
FairEmail | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Voll ausgestatteter E-Mail-Client. Saubere intuitive Oberfläche. Mit Datenschutz
I guess it was an issue with originally installing via the play store. I think I wasn't able to donate if it wasn't via the play store.I don't know, @Exmet. The (German) view in the F-Droid store shows the following version number regarding FairEmail:
Version 1.1899 (1899) proposed Added on 2022-05-22
FairEmail | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Voll ausgestatteter E-Mail-Client. Saubere intuitive Oberfläche. Mit Datenschutz
Anyway, I uninstalled the app and reinstalled via F-Droid, so now I'm on version 1.1899.
Unfortunately, I lost my Pro features.
To restore the pro features, please contact me. Note that you can't use a Play store purchase outside of the Play store.
Download the Play Store version (you can still do that even if you don't see it in the Play Store by going to purchased apps or under "see recent updates"), make sure the pro version is activated, and then you can get the latest update from GitHub. I have found that it will still honor the pro license. Then in settings under miscellaneous I enable "check for GitHub updates". This way I keep my Pro license plus I also stay current with the most current updates..
This is reportedly working, but it is up to Google if the Play store purchase is being recognized.
Note that there shouldn't be too much discussion about the pro features here (XDA rules).
Version 1.1902 is available on GitHub now and in the Play store test program after Google's approval.
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases
This version was released to fix a memory leak.
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases
This version was released to fix a memory leak.
Dear Marcel,
glad to read about the re-approval from Google's Play store, thank you very much for your effort!
One question: I am using activated FairEmail Pro and wondering how to 'conserve' those features without repeated re-activations while switching between sources.
Activation had been done by PayPal, actual installation is F-Droid version 1.899.
Is it possible to switch to Github- or Google Play Store- version (and back?) without loosing the activation? How to do so?
Thanks and best regards!
glad to read about the re-approval from Google's Play store, thank you very much for your effort!
One question: I am using activated FairEmail Pro and wondering how to 'conserve' those features without repeated re-activations while switching between sources.
Activation had been done by PayPal, actual installation is F-Droid version 1.899.
Is it possible to switch to Github- or Google Play Store- version (and back?) without loosing the activation? How to do so?
Thanks and best regards!
For support on the pro features, please use this contact form:
https://contact.faircode.eu/?product=fairemailsupport
XDA rules basically allow discussing the free version of the app only here.
I would *love* to vote those reviews down but these kind of links never work for me. Clicking them always brings me to my own review
Downvoted.
These links don't work for me either, so I sort by date to find the review. For regions other than my own DE, this no longer works for me, as it seems that sorting by date is no longer possible when accessing the Play Store via browser at the moment.
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Hello! I've read the last few pages of comments and I'd like to add mine.
First, I'm not yet a user. I found out about FairEmail a few days ago on a site commenting on secure email apps for Android. I was going to test it, found the Play Store link was non-functional, and Googling around arrived here. It's nice to know it's going to be back shortly!
I also just read the comment about 1-star reviews, and I'd like to add a few points that may help.
So, from what I read years ago, it's typical to see 8 times more bad reviews than good reviews if a product is equally liked and dislike, that is, if the same number of people like and dislike it. Why? Because people who're having a bad experience are much more vocal about it than people who are having a good experience, and thus complain loudly much more frequently than the other praises loudly.
This means that, if you have 1000 users; from 1000 users there are 500 who dislike your product, and 500 who like it; and, from them all, 90 decided to write reviews; you'd see, from your side, 80 bad reviews and 10 good reviews. If the 10 good reviews then all gave the product 5 stars, and the 80 bad reviews all gave it 1 star, this would result in an average rate of ~1.4 stars.
Therefore, 1.4 stars typically mean half of your users like the product, and half dislike it. And that's assuming no bot activity from dishonest app makers trying to artificially lower your ratio. By extension, anything above 1.4 stars means a higher and higher proportion of satisfied users versus unsatisfied ones. I did some number crunching and got this table:
As you see, comparing your rating with the corresponding percentages provide a very different view of things. The odd 1-star review here and there is objectively meaningless.
Additionally, there's a well-known psychological bias at play that, once we become aware of it, can help defuse negative perceptions further: the human brain is primed to give disproportionate importance to disapproval compared to approval.
That stems from our hunter-gatherer days. If, back in tribal days, one member of the tribe were critical of us, that'd be quite dangerous, because even if the other 50 members thought we were fine, that one single negative opinion could cause us real damage, many times physically so, if not even causing us the risk of death. So our minds got used to paying an extraordinary amount of attention to negative feedback. An amount that has been measured in fact. Turns out, people tend to pay 10 to 100 times more attention to negative feedback than to positive feedback.
What this means is that to have our emotions balanced after receiving one single, sole negative feedback, a person unaware of this mechanism needs to receive between 10 and 100 positive feedbacks of the same objective intensity for their emotions to balance those out and reach back into a neutral mood. In the case of store reviews that'd be 10 to 100 5-star reviews for the developer to feel as neutralized that gut sinking feeling from one single 1-star review, and him feeling neutral again. Or, conversely, if the developer received 10 to 100 5-star reviews in a row, and suddenly a 1-star review appears, that's enough for him to feel his good mood due to all those 5-star reviews suddenly disappearing.
This bias is behind many behaviors people have such as, for example, the fear of talking in public and giving presentations (our brains don't recognize that there's no life risk in giving a bad presentation, it feels as if the entire tribe is about to judge its fate and it might die), or the desire to have a criminal suffer horribly for what they did to us (seeking extreme vengeance, so that the criminal suffering is many times the harm they objectively caused us, until we feel the positive emotions we get from their suffering balancing out the negative emotion we felt from what they did), and similar disproportionate reactions.
Knowing this mechanism is in place therefore helps. Even though the bias is always present and operative, by knowing it's there we can recognize that sinking feeling, then look at it objectively and think "Geez, there it is again, my brain playing tricks with me and making me feel as ultra-important something that's irrelevant!", which reduces its intensity significantly.
Those are my 2 cents. I'm sorry for the length, as I imagined that writing in more detail would be better than trying to be too succinct. And I hope it helps!
First, I'm not yet a user. I found out about FairEmail a few days ago on a site commenting on secure email apps for Android. I was going to test it, found the Play Store link was non-functional, and Googling around arrived here. It's nice to know it's going to be back shortly!
I also just read the comment about 1-star reviews, and I'd like to add a few points that may help.
So, from what I read years ago, it's typical to see 8 times more bad reviews than good reviews if a product is equally liked and dislike, that is, if the same number of people like and dislike it. Why? Because people who're having a bad experience are much more vocal about it than people who are having a good experience, and thus complain loudly much more frequently than the other praises loudly.
This means that, if you have 1000 users; from 1000 users there are 500 who dislike your product, and 500 who like it; and, from them all, 90 decided to write reviews; you'd see, from your side, 80 bad reviews and 10 good reviews. If the 10 good reviews then all gave the product 5 stars, and the 80 bad reviews all gave it 1 star, this would result in an average rate of ~1.4 stars.
Therefore, 1.4 stars typically mean half of your users like the product, and half dislike it. And that's assuming no bot activity from dishonest app makers trying to artificially lower your ratio. By extension, anything above 1.4 stars means a higher and higher proportion of satisfied users versus unsatisfied ones. I did some number crunching and got this table:
| Stars | Satisfied Users |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | 1% |
| 1.5 | 54% |
| 2.0 | 73% |
| 2.5 | 83% |
| 3.0 | 89% |
| 3.5 | 93% |
| 4.0 | 96% |
| 4.5 | 98.3% |
| 5.0 | 100% |
As you see, comparing your rating with the corresponding percentages provide a very different view of things. The odd 1-star review here and there is objectively meaningless.
Additionally, there's a well-known psychological bias at play that, once we become aware of it, can help defuse negative perceptions further: the human brain is primed to give disproportionate importance to disapproval compared to approval.
That stems from our hunter-gatherer days. If, back in tribal days, one member of the tribe were critical of us, that'd be quite dangerous, because even if the other 50 members thought we were fine, that one single negative opinion could cause us real damage, many times physically so, if not even causing us the risk of death. So our minds got used to paying an extraordinary amount of attention to negative feedback. An amount that has been measured in fact. Turns out, people tend to pay 10 to 100 times more attention to negative feedback than to positive feedback.
What this means is that to have our emotions balanced after receiving one single, sole negative feedback, a person unaware of this mechanism needs to receive between 10 and 100 positive feedbacks of the same objective intensity for their emotions to balance those out and reach back into a neutral mood. In the case of store reviews that'd be 10 to 100 5-star reviews for the developer to feel as neutralized that gut sinking feeling from one single 1-star review, and him feeling neutral again. Or, conversely, if the developer received 10 to 100 5-star reviews in a row, and suddenly a 1-star review appears, that's enough for him to feel his good mood due to all those 5-star reviews suddenly disappearing.
This bias is behind many behaviors people have such as, for example, the fear of talking in public and giving presentations (our brains don't recognize that there's no life risk in giving a bad presentation, it feels as if the entire tribe is about to judge its fate and it might die), or the desire to have a criminal suffer horribly for what they did to us (seeking extreme vengeance, so that the criminal suffering is many times the harm they objectively caused us, until we feel the positive emotions we get from their suffering balancing out the negative emotion we felt from what they did), and similar disproportionate reactions.
Knowing this mechanism is in place therefore helps. Even though the bias is always present and operative, by knowing it's there we can recognize that sinking feeling, then look at it objectively and think "Geez, there it is again, my brain playing tricks with me and making me feel as ultra-important something that's irrelevant!", which reduces its intensity significantly.
Those are my 2 cents. I'm sorry for the length, as I imagined that writing in more detail would be better than trying to be too succinct. And I hope it helps!
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@alexgieg That table is a nice try, but you ignore the fact that people can not only give 1 or 5 stars, but also 2, 3 or 4. In my perception on the internet ratings of 1, 2 and 3 stars are all to be considered as bad, 4 stars will be so-so, and only 5 stars is good. This will dramatically change your figures (although there is no scenario in which a mean score of 4.7 or 4.8 can be translated as far from perfect).
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12The tutorials as created by @mkasimd are live now:
FairEmail/tutorials at master · M66B/FairEmail
Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly...
github.com
The tutorials are being referenced from the FAQ, the contact form and from the settings screen in the next version of the app.
If you are a native English speaker, can you please check if the spelling/style is okay?4The dark original message view will stop working for Android before version 10, about which I complained about in this issue:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/237785596
(requires a Google login)
The next version of the app will show a message about this.2
FairEmail already adjusts colors for the reformatted message view, usingApparently there's a while field of science behind the question of what colors are perceived as light / bright. This article is interesting on the topic:
Web Accessibility: Understanding Colors and Luminance - Accessibility | MDN
When designing visual and readable content...developer.mozilla.org
But this should work too, I think. In the worst case, we can send a few emails with different background colors in a test version before you push an official release. Just to be certain.magicscience ;-)
For now I am going to wait what Google says about forcing dark mode. It would be better if the browser did this instead of manipulating the HTML. Maybe I I'll leave it like it is, which means that there will be a message that Google removed dark mode for Android before version 10. Let's say that reviews are not very motivating to workaroundGoogle's decisionthis problem.2
Only on the device, unless a POP3 account is being used with the option 'Leave messages on server' disabled.
I have clarified this in the FAQ:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#redmi
Thanks!2
In addition: sqlite is the Android database system. FairEmail comes with a recent sqlite library because on older devices / Android versions there are often pretty old sqlite binaries with known and sometimes critical bugs. FairEmail links for this to the requery/sqlite-android project. You'll find some commit of me in this project as well.SQLite is used by FairEmail as the app's local database. A data loss within there should not result in any data loss within the server. If that was the case, it'd be a huge bug within the FairEmail on top of the bug in Redmi Note (as deleting in the server requires an IMAP command being sent to the email server), and we can trust that Marcel would have communicated and fixed it already if that was the case
With POP3, the messages are possibly deleted right after downloading the message. So if the data within the device is lost, the messages are lost for all eternity then. Because there are no messages stored in the server then.
Advice: use IMAP whenever possible
sqlite is a pretty amazing piece of software! -
23Version
1.19231.1924 is available on GitHub now and in the Play store test program after Google's approval.
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases
The option to suppress notifications while on a call (recently added) has been replaced by delaying notifications until after having ended the call instead. This way there isn't a risk that important new messages will be missed or seen too late. This option is available on Android 12 and later only because earlier Android versions do not have the requires APIs.20Version 1.1906 is available on GitHub now and in the Play store test program after Google's approval.
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases
Thanks @Rtxda for testing!20Quite some people asked my opinion about Thunderbird / K9 mail joining.
I wish them good luck because we need privacy friendly apps. The author of K9 mail seems a nice guy to me, and even contributed a few lines of code and some constructive feedback to FairEmail. I hope he'll find a nice place in the Mozilla organization.
That said, the concept of FairEmail is somewhat different than of Thunderbird / K9 mail. One of the things I read about is deep integration between the Thunderbird desktop / mobile app. The concept of FairEmail is to be standalone and not to depend on any service. Maybe in some way the apps are competitors, depending on the way you look at them, but in the end the goal is similar, offering a decent and privacy friendly app, at least I hope that this keeps being the goal of Mozilla. Of course a lot more can be said, but the apps just have a different character, which you might or might not like.19Version 1.1907 is available on GitHub now and in the Play store test program after Google's approval.
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases18Version1.19141.1915 is available on GitHub now.
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases
All changes required or desired for Android 13 have been done now.
Now that this has been done and given my personal situation, there will be bug fix releases only for now. -
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FairEmail
Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android
See here for a description:
https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/
See here for screenshots:
https://email.faircode.eu/#screenshots
Downloads:
https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email#user-content-downloads
Frequently asked questions:
https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/blob/master/FAQ.md
Please read this before requesting a new feature:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-content-get-support
This XDA thread is about using the latest version of FairEmail.
For support on authorizing an account you should consult the documentation of your provider, see also here.
Off topic comments are allowed as long they are related to FairEmail and are in the general interest of the followers of this thread.
Discussion of purchases is not allowed here, please contact me via here instead.68
Google was pretty friendly and cooperative and told me the favicons are indeed the problem, and it can/should be fixed by updating in the privacy policy to "disclose how your app accesses, collects, uses, and shares user data":
So, I have updated the privacy policy and added this new table:
https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md#summary-of-shared-data
I am not sure if it covers everything, so feedback is more than welcome. @mkasimd maybe you can take a look?
Note that I have also enabled BIMI, Gravatars, Libravatars and favicons for the Play store version again.
The short term goal is to release a Play store test version (and associated GitHub version) and to get the update approved. I will think about the next steps after this has been accomplished. Given the huge number of supportive messages I received (much appreciated!) the project will be continued in some form in any case.49Version 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 too46It is time for a new, modern, open source, privacy friendly email client for Android.
I have just released a first alpha version for feedback on the design and features.
Not for production use yet!
Most of the stuff basically works, but be prepared for crashes and error notifications.
Safe email is a working name, but it is for several reasons not a convenient name, so suggestions for a name are welcome.37I have just released alpha version 0.15
Changelog/download:
https://github.com/M66B/open-source-email/releases
With a bit of luck the next version can be a beta version.
I am putting a lot of effort into this project, so thanks are appreciated.
