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

[DaOldMan]

Dear @M66B,

Is RTL support planned in the future ? This will enable using FairMail in Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi. For now I didn't find any option to enable RTL and everything is left alligned instead of right alligned on PC when you receive mail from FairMail.
Thanks for the hard work.

 

[M66B]

Dear @M66B,

Is RTL support planned in the future ? This will enable using FairMail in Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi. For now I didn't find any option to enable RTL and everything is left alligned instead of right alligned on PC when you receive mail from FairMail.
Thanks for the hard work.

RTL is fully supported, even for lists, etc.
Just set your device (or the app via the miscellaneous settings) to a RTL language.

 

[DaOldMan]

RTL is fully supported, even for lists, etc.
Just set your device (or the app via the miscellaneous settings) to a RTL language.

I see, so I need to use the app in Hebrew. It's not detecting the RTL language automaticaly. I will test it ! Many thanks

 

[M66B]

I see, so I need to use the app in Hebrew. It's not detecting the RTL language automaticaly. I will test it ! Many thanks

It will detect RTL languages too if the device/app isn't set to a RTL language. Just try it and you'll see.

 

[DaOldMan]

It will detect RTL languages too if the device/app isn't set to a RTL language. Just try it and you'll see.

I use an English interface so FairMail used English. I tested RTL and got zero RTL support. So this doesn't work automatickly. I will now test it in hebrew language. Thank you !

 

[M66B]

I use an English interface so FairMail used English. I tested RTL and got zero RTL support. So this doesn't work automatickly. I will now test it in hebrew language. Thank you !

I am not sure what you mean by zero support, but the direction should be correct both while reading and writing texts. Note that this is basically provided by Android and there FairEmail will handle a few special cases like the direction of list, etc.

 

[DaOldMan]

I am not sure what you mean by zero support, but the direction should be correct both while reading and writing texts. Note that this is basically provided by Android and there FairEmail will handle a few special cases like the direction of list, etc.

Sir,

I have tested the app in Hebrew now. It's a very nice email client with a lot of great options. Unfortunetly it doesn't support RTL. It has nice RTL support in the UI elements but the main feature of a RTL friendly mail is that the mails themselves have to be correctly formated and aligned on NON ANDROID devices. Which means for instance Outlook on the PC. If I send an email which has hebrew and english in it and someone will try to read it on pc in Outlook he will find it hard. Everything is left aligned and english and hebrew words are moved around so the sentences have no meaning. It's very hard to find a RTL friendly email client on Android. Since many clients moved to Html/Rich text almost all of them broke RTL in process. This includes gmail and outlook which are also unusible for us. If you wish I can send you screenshots of how the mail looks and how it should really look. I think implementing RTL is not easy. But it would make this client great for the milions of Arabic users.
Again thanks for everything and especialy the fast reply.

 

[M66B]

Sir,

I have tested the app in Hebrew now. It's a very nice with a lot of great options. Unfortunetly it doesn't support RTL. It has nice RTL support in the UI elements but the the main feature of a RTL friendly mail is that the mails themselves have to be correctly formated and aligned on NON ANDROID devices. Which means for instance Outlook on the PC. If I send an email which has hebrew and english in it and someone will try to read it on pc in Outlook he will find it hard. Everything is left aligned and english and hebrew words are moved around so the sentences have no meaning. It's very hard to find a RTL friendly email client on Android. Since many clients moved to Html/Rich text almost all of them broke RTL in process. This includes gmail and outlook which are also unusible for us. If you wish I can send you screenshots of how the mail looks and how it should really look. I think implementing RTL is not easy. But it would make this client great for the milions of Arabic users.
Again thanks for everything and especialy the fast reply.

@DaOldMan

I am pretty sure that FairEmail sets the RTL indicator in messages correct. You can check the HTML if you wish.

So, this is more a problem of the non Android email client!

Several people helped to make this work correctly!

When in doubt, you can always contact me via 'Report issue' in the navigation menu.

 

[Dark_Eyes_]

Am I the only one for which Office 365 messages don't show the background color on reformatted text? I noticed this today, but it seems to be working properly for my Gmail account.

 

[M66B]

Am I the only one for which Office 365 messages don't show the background color on reformatted text? I noticed this today, but it seems to be working properly for my Gmail account.

The app reformats messages for all providers in the same way, so that won't be the explanation.

Please send me a raw message of an example message which is supposed to show a background color, indicating where it should be shown.

Note that there are a number of heuristics to remove the background color to be sure the text is readable, especially when using dark themes.

 

[nadir husain]

The app reformats messages for all providers in the same way, so that won't be the explanation.

Please send me a raw message of an example message which is supposed to show a background color, indicating where it should be shown.

Note that there are a number of heuristics to remove the background color to be sure the text is readable, especially when using dark themes.

Marcel you are amazing. It's barely morning in Europe and you are at it.
Have you had breakfast yet?

 

[M66B]

Marcel you are amazing. It's barely morning in Europe and you are at it.
Have you had breakfast yet?

Generally, I sleep from 22:00-6:30, but I was awake early this morning. Mostly, I answer the dozens of messages which were received in the night before breakfast / coffee.

 

[M66B]

Version 1.1724 is available on GitHub now.

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

There is a new display option to show a fixed date header at the top instead of grouping messages by date.

The navigation folders (selected by long pressing a folder in the folder list) have been moved under accounts in the navigation menu. Since the outbox was already moved under unified folders, there is now one section less in the navigation menu.

Both represent structural changes, which is why this version is marked experimental again.

 

[M66B]

Version 1.1725 1.1726 is available on GitHub now.

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

The changelog is part of the app now.

 

[O_DoC]

Hi Marcel,
The v1.1725 was alright and already displayed the change correctly on my side

There's was some bug ? Or the 1726 was something else ?
A pop-up for first launch after the update..

 

[M66B]

Hi Marcel,
The v1.1725 was alright and already displayed the change correctly on my side

There's was some bug ? Or the 1726 was something else ?
A pop-up for first launch after the update..

There was a logic error related to first-use.

 

[fraschi51]

Appreciate moving the outbox location. Improves usability, I think.

I usually don't need the section with the (other) collection folders and therefore I usually don't have it expanded. For me it would be better if - like in the past - waiting mails were visible in the outbox in the same way and at the same time with possibly still open processes.

 

[fraschi51]

No, not by the 'number of unread messages', but by conditionally showing any synced Folder with Unread Messages first, at the top of the Sync'd part of the Folder List.

Reordering the Folders will not help because how can I predict in advance which folders will have unread messages at any given time? (Gmail filters/rules are automatically sending messages to Folders/Labels)

For example, I have dozens of Folders/Labels being synced but I can only see the first 15 of those (alphabetically) on my phone screen in the first instance.

Maybe none of those first 15 Folders/Labels have unread messages (so they are actually useless appearing at the top of the list, just taking up screen space for no reason), but further down, let's say Folder 28, or Folder 45, or Folder 100, or whatever, has unread messages - but I can't easily see that.

I need to scroll down through my entire folder list each time to check which folders have unread messages.

So IMHO that is not very user friendly and it would be better/nicer for them to show at the top.

In addition, from a UI point of view, Google does exactly what I am suggesting with Gmail. Folders can be shown conditionally on 'Show if Unread' basis. So I don't think it's very odd or confusing.

Also, FairEmail is already altering the order of the Folder List, by showing the Synced Folders at the top, out of their place in the alphabetic list.

Does that explain the situation better? I've also attached a screenshot.

You were previously amenable to my original request in August but said you would give some more thought regarding how to implement it.

Thanks again for considering it

Why don't you use the collection input? Then you can see every new incoming mail, no matter in which folder it ends up? Or do I understand something wrong here?

 

[M66B]

I usually don't need the section with the (other) collection folders and therefore I usually don't have it expanded. For me it would be better if - like in the past - waiting mails were visible in the outbox in the same way and at the same time with possibly still open processes.

You can still see waiting messages at the bottom right in message lists.

I think it is more consistent to move the outbox, which is for all accounts, to the unified folders section. Moreover, the quick navigation folders have been moved under the accounts, which is why there can be one section less in the navigation menu now.

 

[fraschi51]

I noticed today (don't know from which version this behavior is) that tapping 'open with' on an internet link no longer offers me - as it used to - my 10 or so different apps that are able to do this, but only the same default app, which also opens after pressing 'o.k.'. Can this be?