SimpleEmail

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

This project has been forked from FairEmail.

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• looks outdated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.

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
• Material design

Other features

• Signatures
• Dark theme
• Account colors
• Multiple select
• Standard replies
• Sort on time, unread or starred
• Search on server
• Preview sender/subject in new messages status bar notification
• Encryption/decryption
• 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)
• 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

• GitLab

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.

SimpleEmail might occasionally crash on Motorola/Lenovo devices with Android 7 Nougat or earlier because of a bug in Android.

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

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 SimpleEmail here
• If your language is not listed, please open a issue or send a message through email

Source code

Building SimpleEmail from source code is straightforward with Android Studio.

Source code contributions are welcome, please open a pull requests.

Please note that you agree to the license below by contributing.

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

GNU General Public License version 3

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/>.