Re: Recommandations for mail-app

Qihe wrote on Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:54:03 +0100 (GMT+01:00) :

... 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.
 

 Thank you for writing it so loud and clear. Google (& others)
 actually manages my own contacts as their loot.

Given the most valuable thing about you is your location, and the second most valuable thing about you are all your friends & family (contacts), every app that has no need for your contacts wants to upload them anyway.
I consider it rude of me to upload someone else's contact information.

This help hiding contacts from other apps (more or less):

I gave up on private contacts and now I don't use contacts so my contacts sqlite database is empty - actually - it was empty.
Now my contacts sqlite database is just filled with fake contacts.
https://f-droid.org/packages/me.billdietrich.fake_contacts/
This way I'll instantly know when a program is sucking in the sqlite db.
 <https://github.com/BillDietrich/fake_contacts>
 <https://f-droid.org/packages/me.billdietrich.fake_contacts/>
 <https://archive.org/details/github.com-BillDietrich-fake_contacts_-_2021-01-31_19-04-27>
 <https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/me.billdietrich.fake_contacts?repo=main>
I have many threads on private contacts, where I've tested these apps.
These are the apps I'm testing out for contacts privacy.
 OpenContacts
 A different database for contacts to keep them private only to you.
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/>
 True Contacts
 "True contacts are good for Local Sync and all apps that create contacts accounts"
 <http://www.psencik.cz/true-contacts>
 <http://www.psencik.cz/file-cabinet/true-contacts-6.apk>
 The Google Play Store repository copy is deprecated by the developer  <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.psencik.com.android.contacts>
 Private Contacts by 2Gusoft
 "Improve the privacy of your contacts by defining which should be shared   with other apps and which should remain private (secret)."
  5K+ Downloads  <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.abwesend.privatecontacts>
 Private Contacts by Blueline Studio
 50+ Downloads
 "Private Contacts isolates contacts from applications on your phone"
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.bluelinestudio.privatecontact>
 Private Contacts - Private Call & SMS on Windows Pc
 Private Contacts is a fantastic privacy protection app designed to
 hide your private contacts, messages and call logs on your phone.
 <https://apkpure.com/private-contacts-private-call-sms/hazar.studio.privatecontacts>
 <https://appsonwindows.com/apk/2426789/>
 <https://download.appsonwindows.com/download/hazar.studio.privatecontacts-v1.2.9-appsonwindows.com.apk>
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.abwesend.privatecontacts>
 Favorite Contacts
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.widgetapp.easymodecontactswidget>
 Contacts Storage
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.providers.contacts>
 Contacts
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.app.contacts>
 Contacts
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodwy.contacts>
 Contacts (extended simple mobile tools)
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ritscher.simplemobiletools.contacts.pro/>
 Contacts (simple mobile tools)
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.contacts.pro/>
 <https://bytehamster.gitlab.io/fdroid-website/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.contacts.pro/>
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.contacts.pro>

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts

Below are the links so only one person has to look them up, and then everyone else can just click on the results for that app.
 <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts>
 <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts/releases/tag/1.1.0>
 <https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Contacts/releases/download/1.1.0/contacts-3-foss-release.apk>
 Name: 20241029_github-contacts-3-foss-release.apk
 Size: 7905323 bytes (7720 KiB)
 SHA256: B19D5DA0705C3C0B93A7783E715FE1FB7C01E2D1ACA221E46AD19E22B2FEB43E
Also:
 <https://www.fossify.org/>
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fossify.contacts>
 <https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.contacts/>
 <https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.fossify.contacts>

I use FairEmail, as I gave up on K9 before Mozilla took them over.
 

Why?

Because FairEmail is built around privacy from a person whom I trust, and whom I've worked with to help get his OAuth2 working when Google screwed us for about 3 months when Google required 2FA/MFV until Google finally relented 3 months later and allows smaller developers to use OAuth2.

I wished Mozilla could add a Usenet newsreader on k-9.

Yup. There is no good Android Usenet newsreader, that's for sure.

I like Thunderbird for this.

To each his/her own as I hate Thunderbird's newsreader, which treats Usenet as if it's email without realizing Usenet is fundamentally different stuff.

 

 *FairEmail*
 

It is far more configurable than any other mail client and this is
 great but not easier than k-9 for lot of people.

I used K-9 for years until I switched to FairEmail but to each his/her own.