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FairEmail

Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

This open source, privacy friendly email app might be for you if your current email app:

takes long to receive or to show messages
can manage only one email address
cannot handle a large number of messages
cannot show conversations
cannot work offline
looks outdated
is not maintained and supported
stores your email on their servers
is closed source, potentially violating your privacy

This app is minimalistic by design, so you can concentrate on reading and writing messages.

This app starts a foreground service with a low priority status bar notification to make sure you'll never miss new email.

Main features

100 % open source
Privacy friendly
Multiple accounts
Multiple email addresses
Unified inbox
Flat conversation threading
Two way synchronization
Offline storage and operations
Battery friendly
Low data usage
Small (< 10 MB)
Material design (including dark theme)
Maintained and supported

Privacy features

Reformat messages to prevent phishing
Confirm showing images to prevent tracking
Confirm opening links to prevent tracking and phishing
Automatically recognize and disable tracking images
Warning if messages could not be authenticated

Pro features

All pro features are convenience or advanced features.

Account/identity colors
Colored stars (instructions)
Notification settings (sounds) per account/folder/sender (requires Android 8 Oreo)
Configurable notification actions
Snooze messages (instructions)
Send messages after selected time
Synchronization scheduling (instructions)
Reply templates
Accept/decline calendar invitations
Filter rules (instructions)
Search on device or server (instructions)
Keyword management
Biometric authentication
Encryption/decryption (OpenPGP) (instructions)
Export settings

Simple

Quick setup
Easy navigation
No bells and whistles
No distracting "eye candy"

Secure

No data storage on third party servers
Safe message view (styling, scripting and unsafe HTML removed)
Confirm opening links, images and attachments
No special permissions required
No advertisements
No analytics and no tracking
No Google backup
FairEmail is an original work, not a fork or a clone

Efficient

IMAP IDLE (push messages) supported
Built with latest development tools and libraries

Screenshots

Please see here for screenshots.

Downloads

The GitHub version is being updated more often than the Play store version. The GitHub release will automatically check for updates on GitHub. You can turn this off in the miscellaneous settings.

Certificate fingerprints:

MD5: 64:90:8E:2C:0D:25:29:B0:D0:26:2D:24:D8:BB:66:56
SHA1: 17:BA:15:C1:AF:55:D9:25:F9:8B:99:CE:A4:37:5D:4C:DF:4C:17:4B
SHA256: E0:20:67:24:9F:5A:35:0E:0E:C7:03:FE:9D:F4:DD:68:2E:02:91:A0:9F:0C:2E:04:10:50:BB:E7:C0:64:F5:C9

One line command to display certificate fingerprints:

unzip -p fairemail.apk META-INF/CERT.RSA | keytool -printcert

F-Droid (last build status)

Note that F-Droid builds new versions irregularly and you'll need the F-Droid client to get update notifications. To get updates in a timely fashion you are advised to use the GitHub release.

Because F-Droid builds and GitHub releases are signed differently, an F-Droid build needs to be uninstalled first to be able to update to a GitHub release.

Privacy

Please see here for the privacy policy.

Compatibility

FairEmail requires at least Android 5 Lollipop. Individual message notifications are available on Android 7 Nougat and later only because earlier Android versions do not support notification grouping.

FairEmail will work properly on devices without any Google service installed.

See here for known problems.

Support / frequently asked questions

See here for a list of often asked questions and about how to get support.

Contributing

Documentation

Contributions to this document and the frequently asked questions are preferred in the form of pull requests.

Translations

You can translate the in-app texts of FairEmail on Crowdin
If your language is not listed, please send a message through this contact form

Source code

Building FairEmail from source code is straightforward with Android Studio. It is expected that you can solve build problems yourself, so there is no support on building.

Source code contributions are preferred in the form of pull requests. Please contact me first to tell me what your plans are.

Please note that you agree to the license below by contributing, including the copyright.

Attribution

FairEmail uses:

Android Support Library. Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project. Apache license.
Android Architecture Components. Copyright 2018 The Android Open Source Project, Inc. Apache license.
OpenPGP API library. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Dominik Schürmann. Apache License 2.0.
Android SQLite support library. Copyright (C) 2017 requery.io. Apache License 2.0.
App shortcut icon generator. Copyright ???. Apache License 2.0.
Mozilla ISPDB. Free to use for any client.

Error reporting is sponsored by:

Bugsnag monitors application stability and is used to help improve FairEmail.

License

GNU General Public License version 3

FairEmail is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

FairEmail is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with FairEmail. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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