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

[candicus]

I miss a search option while viewing a message. This would be a nice feature.
In a message list or folder there is a magnifying glass for searching for a given string anywhere in the messages. That is very helpful.
The found strings are highlighted in a message but only in the original message view. Can the strings be highlighted in the formatted message, too?
Thank you for the best email app ever.
Play store version 1.1964

 

[M66B]

I miss a search option while viewing a message. This would be a nice feature.
In a message list or folder there is a magnifying glass for searching for a given string anywhere in the messages. That is very helpful.
The found strings are highlighted in a message but only in the original message view. Can the strings be highlighted in the formatted message, too?
Thank you for the best email app ever.
Play store version 1.1964

You'll find a text search in the horizontal three dots menu just above the message text near the left side.

Highlighting should work in the reformatted text view too. I'll look into this. Edit: this will be fixed in the next release.

 

[candicus]

You'll find a text search in the horizontal three dots menu just above the message text near the left side.

Oh, I should have been looking more thoroughly. Thanks.

Highlighting should work in the reformatted text view too. I'll look into this. Edit: this will be fixed in the next release.

Great, thank you.

 

[BackToAndroid]

The structure of the settings was changed a dozens of times and the end result is that whatever the structures is, there is always somebody unhappy.

Signatures are used by few people, and generally I advice against them because it increases the spam score of your messages, especially on first contact, and therefore I would consider them as advanced. This is also the problem: what is basic and advanced is rather subjective.

The only thing I am willing to do (but won't) is remove 95% of the settings because I am more than a bit tired about complaints like "Too many/complicated settings", of which there were even a few when I checked my email after a funeral I attended today ...

My condolences!

I am sure you cannot keep everyone happy, this was just a feedback I wanted to share. However, you are doing an incredible job. Keep up!

 

[M66B]

Because the data corruption observed on some Redmi, OnePlus and Oppo devices might be caused by using an app provided sqlite library, the next version of the app will use the Android provided sqlite library again. I don't think that this will result in any problems, except maybe on very old devices, which was the initial reason to use an app provided library. Not that it matter much, the app size will be 3 MB smaller without bundling sqlite.

Preview version with all reported bugs, like search highlighting, fixed:

https://bitbucket.org/M66B/fairemail-test/downloads/FairEmail-v1.1969b-github-native-sqlite-release.apk

Background:

SQLite and Android N

 

[bmwdroid]

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Preview version with all reported bugs, like search highlighting, fixed:
....

Just updated my Pro github versions on Lineage14.1=Nougat and Samsung stock A12.
Both working as before.
Thx for your work.

 

[M66B]

Another 1 star review which says I need to do less:

Sofort wieder deinstalliert. Da hat sich ein Programmierer ausgetobt, ohne an die Usability zu denken. Mit dieser unsinnigen Vielzahl von Einstellungen macht er es viel zu kompliziert und verliert aus den Augen, worum es eigentlich geht. Nämlich einfach Mails zu senden und zu empfangen. Als ich dann endlich damit durch war und das Ergebnis gesehen habe, knallbunt und unübersichtlich, habe ich die App sofort wieder gelöscht.

(Immediately uninstalled. A programmer let off steam without thinking about usability. With this nonsensical multitude of shots, he makes it far too complicated and loses sight of what it's actually about. Simply send and receive emails. When I was finally done with it and saw the result, brightly colored and confusing, I immediately deleted the app.)

The result is that I am strictly going to enforce the rules for new features as documented here:

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

Lately, there were several reviews like "I will remove my 1* if you add ...". The monochrome Material You theme is an example of this. I will stop putting effort into things like this as well.

All this doesn't make it more fun to work on this project.

 

[Clark Joseph Kent]

Good to go from me, IMHO.
A fellow Moderate just happened to show this to another Member, I just happen to see it, and wow, looked, installed, tested and now hooked.
Again, no complaints, good to go!

 

[mkasimd]

Another 1 star review which says I need to do less:



(Immediately uninstalled. A programmer let off steam without thinking about usability. With this nonsensical multitude of shots, he makes it far too complicated and loses sight of what it's actually about. Simply send and receive emails. When I was finally done with it and saw the result, brightly colored and confusing, I immediately deleted the app.)

The result is that I am strictly going to enforce the rules for new features as documented here:

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

Lately, there were several reviews like "I will remove my 1* if you add ...". The monochrome Material You theme is an example of this. I will stop putting effort into things like this as well.

All this doesn't make it more fun to work on this project.

I will remove the 1* review, if you add x.. Wow. That's next-level threatening.

Those people seem to consider 1* reviews as your weakness they can shamelessly utilize to make you implement what they want. You should indeed have your principles as mentioned in the FAQ and stick to them instead of letting yourself be swayed by such reviews..

 

[M66B]

I will remove the 1* review, if you add x.. Wow. That's next-level threatening.

Those people seem to consider 1* reviews as your weakness they can shamelessly utilize to make you implement what they want. You should indeed have your principles as mentioned in the FAQ and stick to them instead of letting yourself be swayed by such reviews..

This kind of threatening has been happening for years. If it is some useful feature, I will see what I can do, but else it will be GFY.

In the case of XPrivacy, one guy even rated dozens of 1 stars. One day XPrivacy was removed from the Play store and this guy kept nagging for years after that. Guess what?

 

[M66B]

Version 1.1970 is available on GitHub now and via the Play store test program after Google's approval.

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

Besides fixing all reported the bugs, the main change is not bundling the sqlite library anymore, and instead using Android's sqlite version. Since Android doesn't include full-text search version 5, search indexing was changed to using fts4. The app will automatically rebuild the search index, if search indexing is enabled in the miscellaneous settings.

Hopefully, this change fixes the occasional database corruption on some Redmi, OnePlus and Oppo devices, and not cause any problems on older devices, which is why sqlite was bundled in the first place.,

As a result of this change, the download size is about 3.5 MB smaller.

 

[bmwdroid]

Another 1 star review which says I need to do less:
.....

You'll never be able to please everybody.
Imho you shouldn't care that much what these morons write.
If they don't like it, so what.
Loads of us do instead.
Keep your head up high.

 

[nadir husain]

You'll never be able to please everybody.
Imho you shouldn't care that much what these morons write.
If they don't like it, so what.
Loads of us do instead.
Keep your head up high.

Agree absolutely, completely and totally.

 

[M66B]

You'll never be able to please everybody.
Imho you shouldn't care that much what these morons write.
If they don't like it, so what.
Loads of us do instead.
Keep your head up high.

That's easy to say for you, but I have to deal with things like this on a daily basis.

Edit: like I said a while ago, involvement and keeping distance can't really be combined. In any case, I can't deliver this.

 

[R89I]

Version 1.1970 is available on GitHub now and via the Play store test program after Google's approval.

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

Besides fixing all reported the bugs, the main change is not bundling the sqlite library anymore, and instead using Android's sqlite version. Since Android doesn't include full-text search version 5, search indexing was changed to using fts4. The app will automatically rebuild the search index, if search indexing is enabled in the miscellaneous settings.

Hopefully, this change fixes the occasional database corruption on some Redmi, OnePlus and Oppo devices, and not cause any problems on older devices, which is why sqlite was bundled in the first place.,

As a result of this change, the download size is about 3.5 MB smaller.

Hello Marcel,

Thank you for your continued work on FairEmail, am a happy user for a while now.

Hope you don't mind me asking for advice. I installed 1.1970 from GitHub on a Pixel 4a 5G with GrapheneOS and the app won't launch anymore. I don't think I have had search indexing enabled, unless it is enabled by default? I have asked in the Matrix room and other users on GrapheneOS who are also using the GitHub release report no issues with 1.1970. I have tried re-installing the version with a freshly downloaded release from GitHub but to no avail. The app doesn't launch. Presumably this is just bad luck.

Is there a way of re-installing without losing my app data such as set up accounts? Or is that not possible (for good reasons)?

Thank you.

 

[M66B]

Hello Marcel,

Thank you for your continued work on FairEmail, am a happy user for a while now.

Hope you don't mind me asking for advice. I installed 1.1970 from GitHub on a Pixel 4a 5G with GrapheneOS and the app won't launch anymore. I don't think I have had search indexing enabled, unless it is enabled by default? I have asked in the Matrix room and other users on GrapheneOS who are also using the GitHub release report no issues with 1.1970. I have tried re-installing the version with a freshly downloaded release from GitHub but to no avail. The app doesn't launch. Presumably this is just bad luck.

Is there a way of re-installing without losing my app data such as set up accounts? Or is that not possible (for good reasons)?

Thank you.

I can't be sure, but I don't think this is related to using sqlite of Android.

Reinstalling will result in Android resetting all data. So, you'll need to reconfigure the accounts again, which is in most cases rather simple.

I would like to hear if reinstalling fixes the problem.

Not that this will help you now, but you can export and import all data via the navigation menu of the settings screen.

Edit: before you do anything: try to reboot your device.

 

[M66B]

@R89I looking at the Bugsnag error reports, it looks like not all Android versions offer all sqlite features the app needs. Unfortunately, I can't look into this right away, so this has to wait until later today.

 

[R89I]

@R89I looking at the Bugsnag error reports, it looks like not all Android versions offer all sqlite features the app needs. Unfortunately, I can't look into this right away, so this has to wait until later today.

Thanks a lot for the quick response. Wish I had exported data before (oops). Have rebooted a few things (both via power menu and long-hold power button press) but no effect.

If I choose to go down the re-install path I will let you know, but also a bit tied up right now and would need to jiggle with 2FA app passwords.

Appreciate the suggestions very much!

 

[M66B]

Thanks a lot for the quick response. Wish I had exported data before (oops). Have rebooted a few things (both via power menu and long-hold power button press) but no effect.

If I choose to go down the re-install path I will let you know, but also a bit tied up right now and would need to jiggle with 2FA app passwords.

Appreciate the suggestions very much!

If you wait a little, I will build and publish a new version.

 

[M66B]

Version 1.1971 1.1972 is available on GitHub now and via the Play store test program after Google's approval.

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

@R89I please let me know if updating to this version fixes the problem.