I’m on a Galaxy S10, and I really want a more privacy-respecting app than the included one. I tried FairEmail, and while it seems nice, it was extremely overwhelming and cluttered for me. Is there anything of similar quality that’s simpler to use interface-wise?

  • koyu@lemmy.ml
    17·
    3 years ago

    K-9 mail is the go-to mail app on Android. It supports a wide variety of features, but doesn’t look too cluttered and even supports PGP encryption. Currently can’t think of any other better mail client for Android.

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
    15·
    3 years ago

    K9 and FairEmail are the too recommandation for Android. You can also use the official client of a trusted provider such as TutaNota, PortonMail etc

    • Mr. Upsy@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      3 years ago

      Just did: this is fantastic! Just wish I could remove my phone’s default e-mail app, but that’s unfortunately out of my hands, as is removing the Samsung Internet Browser. 🙃

    • ~sunblocker@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      Delta Chat is so underrated. You have to go in the settings to “enable” regular emails though which might be a deal breaker for people who just want to input their username and password and never touch any settings beyond that.

    • Sandro Linux@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Delta Chat is really cool. I love how it takes the universal standard of email and allows you to use it for short form messages. Although, I haven’t really used Delta recently.

  • XpeeN@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    K-9 mail for frontend only and tutanota for an actual privacy respecting email.

  • currawong@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    FairEmail is overwhelming at first but if you persevere you’ll find a template close to K-9 and much more logical. It took me a while to properly get into FairEmail but now I think I couldn’t go back to K-9.

    I removed a lot of icons I don’t need, made some lines more readable by adjusting the font size, using the solarized theme. The configuration UI can be a bit unintuitive at times but it allows a lot of customisation (it reminds me of the KDE settings UI, which I find uselessly complicated but working). And in the end, FairEmail has far far more options than K-9 for handling your emails, taking care of spam, checking security, etc.

  • sasalzig@lemmy.ml
    54·
    3 years ago

    You think FairEmail is too cluttered but like K9? 🤔

    K9 is the most insane mail client, it’s got hundreds of settings! I was so happy to ditch K9 when I found FairEmail.

    • nachtigall@feddit.de
      81·
      3 years ago

      With the recent UI overhaul I actually think that K9 became much more accessable and modern (than FairEmail).

      • poVoq@lemmy.ml
        11·
        3 years ago

        Yes, but K9 AFAIK only supports IMAP/SMTP, so a lot of SaaS email services (especially those hosted by Microsoft that are used by many companies) will not work with it.

        • nachtigall@feddit.de
          11·
          3 years ago

          In that case one is tied to the particular app anway. Or does FairEmail also support Active Directory or something alike?

  • Joe Bidet@lemmy.ml
    22·
    3 years ago

    mutt in ssh…? but really if you want something “privacy-respecting” you may consider dropping android altogether. (hint: pinephone and other true-(GNU)-linux phones! yay!)