Simple email application for Android. Original source code: https://framagit.org/dystopia-project/simple-email
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README.md

Safe email

Simple, secure and efficient email app

This email app might be for you if your current email app:

  • takes long to show messages
  • can manage only one mailbox
  • cannot show related messages
  • cannot work offline
  • looks outdated
  • is closed source, potentially violating your privacy

Features

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

Simple

  • Easy navigation
  • No settings
  • No bells and whistles

Secure

  • Connect to email servers only
  • Allow encrypted connections only
  • Accept valid security certificates only
  • SMTP authentication required
  • Text view only (converted HTML)
  • No special permissions required
  • No advertisements
  • No analytics and no tracking

Efficient

  • No POP support
  • IMAP IDLE required
  • 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

See here for a list of often asked questions.

Support

  • For support on Safe email, 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 Safe email here
  • If your language is not listed, please send a message through this contact form

Source code

Building Safe email 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

Safe email uses:

License

GNU General Public License version 3

Copyright (c) 2018 Marcel Bokhorst. All rights reserved

Safe email 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.

Safe email 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 Safe email. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.