FairEmail/README.md

FairEmail

Open source, privacy friendly email app

This email app might be for you if your current email app:

• takes long to receive or show messages
• can manage only one email address
• cannot show conversations
• cannot work offline
• looks outdated
• is not maintained
• 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.

Features

• 100 % open source
• Multiple accounts (inboxes)
• Multiple identities (outboxes)
• Unified inbox
• Message threading
• Distraction free reading and writing
• Two way synchronization
• Offline storage and operations
• Battery friendly
• Low data usage
• Folder management
• Material design

Pro features

• Signatures
• Dark theme
• Account colors
• Standard replies
• Sort on time, unread or starred
• Search on server
• Preview sender/subject in new messages status bar notification
• Export settings

Simple

• Easy navigation
• No unnecessary settings
• No bells and whistles

Secure

• Allow encrypted connections only
• Accept valid security certificates only
• Authentication required
• Safe message view (styling, scripting and unsafe HTML removed)
• No special permissions required
• No advertisements
• No analytics and no tracking

Efficient

• IMAP IDLE (push messages) supported
• Built with latest development tools and libraries
• Android 6 Marshmallow or later required

Downloads

• GitHub
• Play store

Compatibility

FairEmail requires at least Android 6 Marshmallow.

FairEmail might occasionally crash on a Motorola/Lenovo Moto G4 and G5 with Android 7 Nougat or earlier because of a bug in Android.

Frequently asked questions

See here for a list of often asked questions.

Support

• For support on FairEmail, please go here

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 here
• 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:

• JavaMail. Copyright (c) 1997-2018 Oracle® and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GPLv2+CE license.
• jsoup. Copyright © 2009 - 2017 Jonathan Hedley. MIT license.
• JCharset. Copyright © 2005-2015 Amichai Rothman. GNU General Public License
• 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.
• colorpicker. Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project. Apache license.
• dnsjava. Copyright (c) 1998-2011, Brian Wellington. BSD License.

License

GNU General Public License version 3

Copyright (c) 2018 Marcel Bokhorst. All rights reserved

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/.