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 mailbox
cannot show conversations
cannot work offline
looks outdated
is not maintained
stores your email on their servers
is closed source, potentially violating your privacy

Features

100 % open source
Multiple accounts (inboxes)
Multiple identities (outboxes)
Unified inbox
Distraction free reading and writing
Message threading
Two way synchronization
Offline storage and operations
Material design
Dark theme

Pro features

Preview sender/subject in new messages status bar notification
Encrypt/decrypt messages using OpenPGP
Progressive search (first local, then server)
Standard replies

Simple

Easy navigation
No settings
No bells and whistles

Secure

Allow encrypted connections only
Accept valid security certificates only
Authentication required
Optional text view only (converted HTML)
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

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

Downloads

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:

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.

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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