[HN Gopher] K-9 Mail 6.000
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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.
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