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Looking for recommendations. I'm on Android and the app I've used for some years now (Type) is acting up and crashing roughly 10 seconds after opening it. Others are complaining about it too. I need to access various IMAP email accounts, so I'm hoping you guys use something you might recommend I check out. Don't care if it's free or paid. If it's worth it, I'll buy an app. Just need it to work.

Thanks!

Try Outlook. https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... k&hl=en_US

I also like Samsung's app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... l.provider

I use K-9 Mail. It's open source and been rock stable for me for over a decade. It's open source, feature-rich but without having a whole lot of glitzy crap you don't need.

I know it's supports IMAP but I use it for POP3 accounts.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... 9&hl=en_US

Bob,

Is K-9 still being supported? Recent reviews are complaining that there's no more support for it and the last update was on September 7, 2018.
The app looks good.

One of my biggest concerns these days is that some of these email apps pull your emails from their servers then serve it to the app. They're collecting data about us and selling it to other parties. I'll pay for an app. to avoid this nonsense.

Yeah like you I don't need something sending my mail to a cloud server. It's just a straight POP3 or IMAP client. I just wanted the equivalent of Thunderbird on Android.

Somebody still poking around at it cuz there was commit done to it on Github 15 days ago:

https://github.com/k9mail/k-9

Someone's also recommending Aqua Mail in this thread:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/andro ... droid.html

I've used both Outlook and Thunderbird on my desktop. If I was to use one on my android phone, it would probably be Outlook. I've been using the Yahoo email app for android for years. Seems to be okay if you have a Yahoo account.

I wish they made a Thunderbird for Android

Burned out from reading reviews. lol

From my experiences I would try K-9. Granted I haven't used IMAP on it but it's been rock solid.

FlyingPenguin wrote:From my experiences I would try K-9. Granted I haven't used IMAP on it but it's been rock solid.

To you knowledge, K-9 does not pull mails through some cloud service? Is the app communicating directly with the mail servers?

I used to use K9 for a long time. Then I discovered Aqua Mail which was way better. I currently use Outlook.

It's just a dumb email client that pulls directly from the server. To save bandwidth, it has a minimum size it will download - usually enough for the text. There's a button you press to download the entire message if you want to see large images or attachments.

Since it's open source, one assumes people have checked the code for anything funny.

Discussion on this Reddit forum about privacy centric email apps including K-9 and aquamail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO ... r_android/

As pointed out in this discussion, K9 isn't pretty but it does the job. I don't need pretty. I hate the bubblegum look of Gmail on Android.

Same thing with Thunderbird for Windows. I use it for its functionality and privacy not for a pretty GUI. Hell, I was fine with Eudora until they stopped supporting it.