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

[Dark_Eyes_]

I can't reproduce this issue in any way. Item decorators should be updated automatically on notify item/data changed and this shouldn't be done "manually".

I just check on a pure PlayStore version on my Chromebook and I can reproduce it. In a new empty folder, move 2 messages with the same date and 2 others with the same date but different from the first 2.

At that point you should have 2 date headers. (Use group by date and sort on time). Select the third message, the first of the 2 oldest messages that has a header. Change it's importance to high. That will reorder the list, moving that message at the top with his own header, but then the 3 remaining will have the same header, which is incorrect for the last one.

 

[M66B]

I just check on a pure PlayStore version on my Chromebook and I can reproduce it. In a new empty folder, move 2 messages with the same date and 2 others with the same date but different from the first 2.

At that point you should have 2 date headers. (Use group by date and sort on time). Select the third message, the first of the 2 oldest messages that has a header. Change it's importance to high. That will reorder the list, moving that message at the top with his own header, but then the 3 remaining will have the same header, which is incorrect for the last one.

@Dark_Eyes_ Can you please check if this works for you too?

Invalidate item decorators · M66B/FairEmail@61c004d

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android - Invalidate item decorators · M66B/FairEmail@61c004d

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[Dark_Eyes_]

@Dark_Eyes_ Can you please check if this works for you too?

Invalidate item decorators · M66B/FairEmail@61c004d

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android - Invalidate item decorators · M66B/FairEmail@61c004d

github.com

Indeed, it's fixed! Thanks!

 

[M66B]

Since it happened too many times to me that I answered a message while a new message arrived making the answer less useful, the next version will show a bottom notification when a new message arrives in the same thread as you are composing a message for. Tapping on 'Show' will open the conversation, so you can quickly check the new message.

 

[greta123456]

Also, I realise that you like to suggest that the app is 'perfectly usable with the default configuration', but I humbly suggest that while that might be 'technically true', for the average user just looking for another (free?) email app the default configuration of FairEmail will come as an ENORMOUS shock

Completely agree. Average user from play store need nice looking app with as little as possible configuration. Just a thought, maybe doing like 3-4 levels of privacy, like: nice looking less secure, good privacy, super privacy - with default first one ? ...

 

[David B-E]

I'd just like to throw in that while I'd put my hand up to being (relatively) a 'power user' or 'technically knowledgeable user', I wouldn't label myself as a 'privacy focused' user as such. An ability to set an email client not to show images in emails by default, but easily set emails from addresses I choose to open showing images is certainly one of my requirements for an email client, but is hardly my only requirement. I'd be wary of strightjacketing thinking, development and marketing with over-restrictive labels.

 

[heinhuiz]

Since it happened too many times to me that I answered a message while a new message arrived making the answer less useful, the next version will show a bottom notification when a new message arrives in the same thread as you are composing a message for. Tapping on 'Show' will open the conversation, so you can quickly check the new message.

Nice feature!

But then, will you go back to the answer you were composing with the back key?

 

[jmh2002]

Completely agree. Average user from play store need nice looking app with as little as possible configuration. Just a thought, maybe doing like 3-4 levels of privacy, like: nice looking less secure, good privacy, super privacy - with default first one ? ...

That's an interesting evolution of this general idea too.

Because it may also be another way to automatically, passively, and 'in app' educate users about their choice (if that remains a goal for FairEmail) while also hopefully resulting in less support questions too:

eg; when chosing the 'Nice Looking / Less Secure' option there could be a message detailing (in simple terms) the privacy implications of the choice, and maybe a link to further information that can be clicked if necessary.

I realise that the phrase "Disabling this option might be harmful to your privacy" already exists in FairEmails settings, but I'm not sure the average user even gets that far.

In any case it's more food for thought as Marcel grapples with how best to move forward, both for the benefit of users, as well as the benefit of his sanity

 

[M66B]

Nice feature!

But then, will you go back to the answer you were composing with the back key?

In the conversation you can tap on the draft to continue editing it.

 

[M66B]

Version 1.1764 1.1765 is available on GitHub now and in the Play store test program after Google's approval.

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

 

[Dark_Eyes_]

@M66B A small improvement idea. I don't know if it's a good idea or even feasible, but maybe the snackbar in the composer could show only when the Android heads up notification doesn't show? Otherwise you get 2 simultaneous notifications for the same message.

 

[M66B]

@M66B A small improvement idea. I don't know if it's a good idea or even feasible, but maybe the snackbar in the composer could show only when the Android heads up notification doesn't show? Otherwise you get 2 simultaneous notifications for the same message.

There is no way to check if there is a heads up notification, unfortunately.

 

[mobification]

removed. tnx for the feedback

 

[M66B]

We did a short review of the FairEmail app - I hope you will like it. Supporting the open-source...our website is still a work in progress.

"FairEmail comes with one of the most unsettling permissions requests since it asks to read your text messages".

FairEmail definitely doesn't ask for this permission:

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-content-faq1

 

[mobification]

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[M66B]

Writers gonna get fired ...

Normally, I am for second chances, but this is completely incorrect and made up:

The next step is to go to fairemail.net and click the Join now button.

There just isn't something like this.

This ain't very good advertisement for your website.

 

[nadir husain]

Normally, I am for second chances, but this is completely incorrect and made up:

There just isn't something like this.

And I thought I was using some different app after being a FairEmail user since Dec 2018

 

[M66B]

And I thought I was using some different app after being a FairEmail user since Dec 2018

You are using the real thing!

Unfortunately, the domain name faircode.net is already taken, else I had reserved it to prevent misusage.

 

[David B-E]

Granted side effects from medication for my disability have messed badly with my memory, but I don't remember ANY of the first time use stuff in that review when I downloaded FairEmail from Google Play Store at all. Detecting my accounts and choosing which to use for my FairEmail account? Giving phone numbers? I don't recall any of that business at all. And what's this 'It is not an email platform meant to replace Gmail. Instead, it is an extension of your Google account that is designed to make your email more private'? I got it because it is an email client to 'replace' GMail ... well actually to replace another email client because I'd never ever use GMail in the first place so need to replace it. It works as a client for a GMail email account, but that's not what that part said. All in all I felt I was reading a review of a completely different app.

 

[heinhuiz]

We did a short review of the FairEmail app - I hope you will like it. Supporting the open-source...our website is still a work in progress.

This is the weirdest review I have read in my life. Maybe the writer tested several apps at the same time and got confused.

Seems like I've found another site that I don't need to bookmark.