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FairEmail and K9 are the only real options on mobile that I know of if you want open source. Comparing the two, I'm much happier on FairEmail though K9 wasn't bad either.

Particularly the link dialog is nice and helps avoid tracking or accidental taps sometimes.



Apparently Thunderbird is coming soon, but who knows how good it will be on mobile.


I used K-9 for a long time until I upgraded my phone and K-9 wasn't supported on the newer version of Android so I switched to Faire mail. Has K-9 been updated to support newer versions of Android?


I don't think K9 supports XOAUTH authentication over IMAP/SMTP yet [0], which is increasingly widely required by mail services.

[0] https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655


According to that bug report, K-9 plans to add this support in the next version!

(it was added to the milestone 17 days ago, but also updated today after the Fairemail news)


I'm running it on LineageOS 19.1 (Android 12), so it must have been.


K-9 version 6.0 came out last month.




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