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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looks outdated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. See also this FAQ.

Main features

100 % open source
Multiple accounts (inboxes)
Multiple identities (outboxes)
Unified inbox
Flat conversation threading
Two way synchronization
Offline storage and operations
Battery friendly
Low data usage
Material design

Pro features

Signatures
Dark/black theme
Account/identity colors
Reply templates
Search on server
Preview sender/subject/photo in new message notifications
Encryption/decryption (OpenPGP)
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)
Confirm opening links, images and attachments
No special permissions required
No advertisements
No analytics and no tracking
No Google backup

Efficient

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

Screenshots

Please see here.

Downloads

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

Compatibility

FairEmail requires at least Android 6 Marshmallow.

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

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.

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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