Re: Recommandations for mail-app

Andy Burns wrote on Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:09:00 +0000 :

K-9 is easy enough and rocksolid

 seconded
 

but you should first double check
  that everything it's ok with your google account.

 I don't use it with gmail, but i have used it that way for trsting, I do use it with my  ISP's POP server and MS's exchange365 server as IMAP.
 

If you can't get mail on the standard app, maybe there is
  something to fix at your gmail account.

Bear in mind that the Google "GMail" app on Android can't be used if you
set up your phone WITHOUT a Google mothership tracking account on the
phone.
You can have as many Google Accounts as you like (I have tons of them, for
example) but I'm talking about the one account set up in the phone (my
phone has none).
The first time you use the GMail app on Android, the moment you log into
that Google Account with the Gmail app, the app UNILATERALLY (without
asking you!) *creates* a Google Account on your Android phone.
Worse, it uploads your contacts, again, WITHOUT ASKING YOU first.
You can turn that off subsequently, but they ALREADY HAVE THEM by then.
What's the point?
If you care about privacy, you can NOT use the Google GMail app to access
your Google Account email.
I use FairEmail, as I gave up on K9 before Mozilla took them over.
 *FairEmail*, privacy aware email by Marcel Bokhorst, FairCode BV, FOSS
  Free, ad free, gsf free, 4.6 star, 24.3K reviews, 500K+ Downloads
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.email>
 <https://email.faircode.eu/>
 <https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases>
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/>