SimpleEmail

A Free Software, minimalistic and privacy friendly email app for Android.

Alternatively, you can download directly from GitLab Releases.

Highlights

• Easy navigation
• No unnecessary settings
• No bells and whistles
• Privacy friendly
• Simple design

Why?

The focus of SimpleEmail is be a privacy-friendly email app with a good UX/UI and with a community development model.

SimpleEmail is minimalistic by design, so you can concentrate on reading and writing messages, it starts a foreground service with a low priority status bar notification to make sure you'll never miss a new email.

This project has been forked from FairEmail.

Features

• 100% Free Software
• Multiple accounts (inboxes)
• Multiple identities (outboxes)
• Unified inbox
• Conversation view
• Two way synchronization
• Offline storage and operations
• Battery friendly
• Low data usage
• Folder management
• Signatures
• Dark theme
• Account colors
• Search on server
• Encryption/decryption
• Export settings

Screenshots

Please see more here or in FDroid store

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

• FDroid store
• GitLab

Direct download certificate fingerprints:

MD5:  85:B2:A9:90:3D:21:25:9E:4F:43:D1:71:8C:29:6C:70
SHA1: 7F:AB:59:CD:12:A1:11:E7:6B:12:9D:71:70:5E:21:76:D9:0E:59:C0
SHA256: A7:A9:0A:5F:14:ED:00:57:56:49:9A:53:4A:13:1A:F0:64:0A:C4:DF:62:2F:76:35:F6:51:69:D8:C9:E9:19:F2

Compatibility

SimpleEmail requires at least Android 6 Marshmallow.

Frequently asked questions

See here for a list of often asked questions.

Support

• For support on SimpleEmail, please open a issue
• For support on authorizing accounts you should contact your provider.

Contributing

Whether you have ideas, translations, features you think are missing, design or code changes, help is always welcome!. You can submit pull requests to this repository, or submit translations using Weblate.

To get started, take a look at CONTRIBUTING.md

Attribution

SimpleEmail uses:

• JavaMail. under GPLv2+CE license.
• jsoup. under MIT license.
• JCharset. under GNU General Public License
• Android Support Library. under Apache license.
• Android Architecture Components. under Apache license.
• colorpicker. under Apache license.
• dnsjava. under BSD License.
• OpenPGP API library. under Apache License 2.0.

License

Copyright 2018, Marcel Bokhorst (M66B)
Copyright 2018, Distopico (dystopia project) and contributors
This program 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.
This program 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 this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

• All assets and docs are under CC BY-SA 4.0, for the license of the image used in the assets please see the metadata under the SVG file.