SimpleEmail

An 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

This project has been forked from FairEmail.

Why?

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• looks outdated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
• has "pro" features for basic things and hasn't transparent way to purchase that features

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 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
• Signatures
• Dark theme
• Account colors
• 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.

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.

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/>.

• 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.