[HN Gopher] K-9 Mail 6.000 ___________________________________________________________________ K-9 Mail 6.000 Author : tweetle_beetle Score : 100 points Date : 2022-04-21 17:39 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (k9mail.app) (TXT) w3m dump (k9mail.app) | juanci_to wrote: | I use K-9 on my Android phone and I'm happy with it. | | It was recommended by FastMail (where I host my e-mail address) | and it's been working properly since then. | detritus wrote: | Ha, so it's better than Fastmail's own Android client? I may | well give it a go, then, as the Fastmail app (much as I love | their service) is 'not great'. | efsavage wrote: | I really like their Android and web clients. I don't use a | lot of advanced features, but find it to be very responsive | and handles everything I do very well. Prior to switching to | Fastmail, I used to have my mail forwarded to Gmail but much | prefer Fastmail's clients to Gmail now, which surprised me. | justsomehnguy wrote: | > Ha, so it's better than Fastmail's own Android client? | | (This a biased personal opinion not based on a real | experience) | | Judging from thr screenshots it is the same framework used by | many Android apps (most notably for me by Nextcloud) and it | is really sucks. | | The current FastMail app is sadly dependent on gapps (AFAIR | FireBase dependency) but othereise it is just an SPA in the | guise of an Android app which works marvelous... till you | have the connectivity. | | If you need an offline access to your mail then the FastMail | app isn't for you. | HelenePhisher wrote: | Hm I don't understand your point here. I do not know their | Android app either but looked up the screenshots and this | seems to be pretty similar to their iOS app, which is | basically a small, highly functional and incredibly fast | version of their website (which means you get all the | features like creating aliases as well). Sadly, this means | there is pretty much no offline capability. At least until | now, but I know they're working on that. | projektfu wrote: | I like Fastmail's app but I have different Fastmail for work | and home. I don't want to connect them and I don't want to | switch between them in one app. For now I have Fastmail for | work and I use Apple Mail for home, but in the past I have | used K9 Mail for this sort of situation. | | I wonder why it's not permitted to have multiple instances of | an application with different configurations. | bowmessage wrote: | It is possible, with a work profile, (though I'm not sure | how one sets up their own profile without a corp-managed | device): https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/619 | 1949?hl=en | sodality2 wrote: | An app like Shelter: | https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/ | | It's an alternative to Island, except it doesn't have | analytics (Insular is a fork of Island w/o that, but | Shelter is a newer and better app imo) | pjerem wrote: | I don't use Android anymore but I used to do this with | Shelter : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=n | et.typeblog.s... | the_common_man wrote: | Use it every day, fantasy app | alias_neo wrote: | This prompted me to open K.9 and just check, I was in undated | with a week worth of missed email. | | I like K.9 but the notifications are extremely unreliable and I | don't want to have to get into the habit of checking for mail. | bklaasen wrote: | They're substantially improved in 6.000: | | "Notifications | | We ended up rewriting large parts of the code dealing with | notifications. The user experience isn't vastly different, but | hopefully most of the annoying things that you had to put up | with are gone now. Some examples: | | When syncing a folder for the first time, the app no longer | creates notifications. That's a good thing. When setting up the | app, you don't want to get notifications for messages that are | 2 years old but happen to be unread. | | The app no longer creates notifications when you manually | refresh the message list. However, you will still get | notifications when manually refreshing a whole account or all | accounts. This is so you don't miss new messages in folders | that aren't currently displayed. | | When displaying the message list screen, notifications for | messages in that list are automatically removed. Previously, | all notifications belonging to that account had been removed | | In earlier versions, going back after opening a message via a | notification would open the folder the message belongs to. Now | the Unified Inbox is opened (if the message is part of the | Unified Inbox). | | Notifications for new messages are now restored when the app is | restarted. That's useful e.g. after a device reboot." | | https://k9mail.app/2022/04/18/K-9-Mail-6.000 | elpocko wrote: | Is that enough zeroes? 6.0000000000000000000000000 sounds better | imho. | ancientsofmumu wrote: | K-9 has been using 3 digits to the right of the decimal for | over 12 years. | | https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/tags?after=2.107 | k8sToGo wrote: | You could fork it and do just that | atoav wrote: | K9 is as good as it gets if you need a multi email android | client. | laurent123456 wrote: | For me it was freezing frequently when downloading emails, and | became unusable over time. FairEmail was a bit better, but the | UI is awful unfortunately. In the end I've ended up with the | Google Mail app - not my first choice but it works well with | multiple accounts and is easy to use. | V-2 wrote: | To me Google Inbox was the best incarnation of an email | client ever (both the mobile and web app). They have quite | inexplicably pulled the plug on it though. | 0xdeadb00f wrote: | People tell me most of Inbox's features have been | integrated into Gmail now. But it just isn't the same.. | crossroadsguy wrote: | Is there an iOS port? Or comparable iOS app? (Not the official | Mail app please) | erinnh wrote: | Ive been looking for a while as well, and most iOS email apps | are basically cloud apps where the app dev's servers log into | your email for you, which I dont like. | | Im currently testing Canary, which doesnt seem to do that and | so far its ok. But I K9 and Fairemail are definitely one of | few apps Im missing since migrating to iOS. | randomluck040 wrote: | I'm not sure but I'm using Outlook on iOS and it's been | better than the regular mail app in my opinion. No idea about | security and privacy though, after all I'm introducing | another developer into my mails which can't be too good I | guess. | k8sToGo wrote: | Outlook goes through Microsoft servers | emptysongglass wrote: | Not really. It doesn't support OAuth, which is kind of silly | (well, actually very silly). | | I switched to FairEmail, which has too many options but | supports OAuth. | IceWreck wrote: | I use K9 mail with app specific passwords. Works just as | well. Takes afew extra minutes to set up compared to OAuth | yoavm wrote: | If you use a company account, you might not be able to have | app specific passwords. OAuth is your only option then. | ncphil wrote: | The OAuth support won me over to FairEmail | (https://email.faircode.eu/) as well. Was a long time K9 user | over several Android releases, but I guess I'm getting | impatient in my old age. This last time had no end of trouble | getting things to work and finally gave FairEmail a try. | OAuth support for all my accounts won me over immediately. | Now if Thunderbird would only make the same effort for the | desktop... | oats wrote: | I made the exact same move for the same reasons a few weeks | ago. The UI is a little... dense, but plenty featureful and | made working with required oauth for my school Outlook | email pretty easy. | dingdingdang wrote: | Thunderbird has supported Oauth2 since v38 - used it myself | on several occasions for migrating gmail accounts in work | context, works fine. | [deleted] | 2Gkashmiri wrote: | Hey. I've been using k9 for quite some time now so I have a | question here, how feature complete it is now against other email | clients? I hear oath but other than that, is is 50% of the | competition? More? Less? | liotier wrote: | I love K-9 Mail - it makes mobile email bearable ! | V-2 wrote: | Why is it only rated 2.9 on Play Store? The negative reviews | look quite articulate, it doesn't seem like coordinated | manipulation. | normaler wrote: | Currently the only project i donate to. They are great. | mike-cardwell wrote: | K-9 Mail is the only thing I miss after my switch from Android to | iOS. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-21 23:00 UTC)