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…bug but waiting months for it to be fixed. Welcome to Android. That's not just a React Native issue https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j...

comment by david_allison · 2024-10-24 · in New Architecture is here

…you tried fairemail? I like it a lot better than k9 mail, mostly because it appears more paranoid. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

comment by snapplebobapple · 2024-09-19 · in Ask HN: What currently is the best, nerd-friendly, rootable Android phone?

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FairEmail development may cease due to Google 'security' requirements

story by PenguinCoder · 2023-11-16 · 1 comment

…Google services, such as recent Huawei devices, in which case selecting an account will fail. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co...

comment by okasaki · 2022-09-25 · in When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”

…only stopped for a few days before the Google issue ended up being resolved. He's still developing. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases/tag/1.1957

comment by aceazzameen · 2022-08-29 · in Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

FairEmail is also open source [1] [1]: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/

comment by zen_1 · 2022-06-13 · in Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

There's guidance in the FAQ document at https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co... that seems to cover Oauth2. For the parent, they seem to be on a Huawei device without Google Services, which may complicate matters.

comment by g_p · 2022-06-02 · in Google contacted me directly to help restore FairEmail on the Play Store

…benefit from obscuring their practices by forcing others to make similar-looking declarations. [0] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commit/57cf22b1193b43ca979...

comment by g_p · 2022-06-02 · in Google contacted me directly to help restore FairEmail on the Play Store

This is nice: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md#sum... Albeit I am undecided whether we should really force every FLOSS developer to create a table like this, apparently Google has decided that yes, we do.

comment by AshamedCaptain · 2022-06-02 · in Google contacted me directly to help restore FairEmail on the Play Store

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j...

comment by tadfisher · 2022-05-20 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

You mean this? https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j...

comment by megous · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

…I see the favicons being discussed, and the source clearly shows requests only made to domains: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j... This is certainly not "shipping people's contact lists off to a third party".…

comment by Guzba · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

…didn't save anyone, by discouraging an exceptional developer with this kind of privacy policy https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md from contributing anything further on to Android app ecosystem, while keeping all the…

comment by megous · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

…are. Maybe they just didn't do it in the Google-approved way? Preference that defaults to false: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j... As to it being contact info, the file is literally called ContactInfo.java.

comment by my69thaccount · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

…he's still upset. Sources [1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-f... [2] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j... [3] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-f... [4]…

comment by boole1854 · 2022-05-19 · in Tell HN: FairEmail terminated after Google falsely flagged as spyware

…he's still upset. Sources [1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-f... [2] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j... [3] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-f... [4]…

comment by boole1854 · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

…Play privacy requirements and APIs. I read through his code, starting with the Main Activity: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/app/src/main/j... 1. He's using ancient APIs. All written in Java with Activities instead of Kotlin…

comment by crowbahr · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

…https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655#issuecomment-113164... [1] https://email.faircode.eu/ [2] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386374 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3142691…

comment by memorable · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

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story by richardboegli · 2022-05-19 · 6 comments

This is sad, however the app is 100% FOSS, so in due time someone could continue its development. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail Open Source: this is the way.

comment by squarefoot · 2022-05-19 · in FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware

Thanks. I've checked it again: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/241ecce7527daafeb021e... Was awkward. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/6eba172ee7f77e1400813... But implemented it now!

comment by ho_schi · 2022-05-05 · in SnappyMail – Modern, lightweight and fast web-based email client

…a yearly security audit ($15,000 to $75,000) for this. You can read more about this here [2]." 1. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co... 2. https://www.theregister.com/2019/02/11/google_gmail_develope... So it…

comment by ASalazarMX · 2022-05-03 · in Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number

Please see: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md ``` (111) Is OAuth supported? OAuth for Gmail is supported via the quick setup wizard. The Android account manager will be used to fetch and refresh OAuth tokens for selected…

comment by kop316 · 2022-03-23 · in Google has removed k9mail_app from the Play Store [ ]

…say Thank you, Marcel Bokhorst Your NetGuard ( https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard ) and FairEmail ( https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail ) apps are great. They are high quality, open source and contain none of the dark patterns that mobile is…

comment by lc5G · 2022-02-02 · in Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

…but I seriously worry about people for whom that is yet one more barrier to entry to college. [1] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co... [2] https://github.com/rcslab/duo-cli

comment by kop316 · 2021-08-03 · in Student IDs on iPhone and Apple Watch Expand to Canada and More US Universities

…I missed lots of emails as a result. Switched to FairEmail[0] and have been a happy user since. [0] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

comment by na85 · 2021-07-24 · in K-9 Mail is back

…Google Play (I have a school Google account that does not allow me to log in without OAuth): https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co... "OAuth for Gmail is supported via the quick setup wizard. The Android account…

comment by kop316 · 2021-03-08 · in FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android

That page links to their GitHub: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

comment by rajbot · 2021-02-14 · in K-9 Mail is looking for funding

…app, just a happy user that likes to pay for open source apps rather than become the "product". [1] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases/tag/1.1488

comment by g_p · 2021-02-14 · in K-9 Mail is looking for funding

I mostly agree, but I'm quite liking Fairemail [1] [1] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail

comment by rjzzleep · 2021-02-14 · in K-9 Mail is looking for funding