What is a good FOSS email app (lemmy.world)

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I want to know if there are any good FOSS email apps on android ? I use gmail and outlook generally for mails for work/office purpose !

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[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Fairmail on Android, Thunderbird elsewhere. KMail if you reall, really want to go through a painful learning process.

[-] PhictionalOne@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry, maybe I am too deep in the software jungle but what is the painful learning process? No front, I am genuinely curious.

I setup k9 a few years back and thought it comprehensible. The only thing I remember a bit annoying was migrating GPG keys over.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

KMail does some things fundamentally different than you'd expect and in typical KDE fashion you can configure everything and then some.

For example there is no strong coupling between accounts/addresses/identities. You can send from any account with any identity. You always have to make sure you chose the right one. By default, all your mail will go over one server, whichever you registered first I think. There was no way of setting a specific one for each identity, again you have to choose the right one every time. This is obviously inappropriate for some setups, e.g. if you have private and work-related accounts.

I think the way Thunderbird handles things is much more sane, because there is only exactly one identity for each account and they are all kept separate. It's ok for KMail to offer more flexibility, but the default behavior is a huge mess and lacks some functionality imo

[-] _hovi_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use this exact combo too. I heard k-9 mail will become thunderbird on android, do you think this will make it any better or shall I just stick to fairemail