On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 13:37, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
K-9 can do all of that.
What it doesn't do is play well with XOAUTH (ie Gmail accounts). There are workarounds but not good ones.
I deliberately do not allow images in (any of) my email clients (claws on the desktop). HTML email is an abomination and not to be tolerated by anyone who supports proper standards
As much as I agree with the sentiment I gave that up as a battle at least a decade ago. I still reply inline and maintain a short 2-line .sig with proper separate r(that only formats correctly in plain text but doesn't break horribly otherwise), but that's about all now.
I understand that they have kicked Fairemail off the play store amidst accusations that it is "spyware".
Indeed. The developer is struggling to get an answer from Google as to what the trigger is but not getting an answer. His best guess is that it relates to him sending email addresses to a server without adequate user policy to allow it. As in: if your email account uses an email address as its login, then Fairemail has to send that address to the IMAP server... He keeps making tweaks, which work, until they don't.
He was hoping to talk to a real person at Google today via a backchannel, I don't know if that happened,
The source is of-course all there on Github for anyone who wants to audit it!