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I've always wanted to like K-9 Mail—it is _the_ open source email application for Android, similar to Thunderbird on desktop—but I'm always turned off by the antiquated user interface. FairEmail came on the scene a few years ago and displaced K-9 for many people. It has boatloads of features, is open source, and is fast, but I found the opinionated UI design choices hard to get used to. Eventually I found ways to tone the inbox down to a more traditional list, but I've never been happy, wishing we could have something more like the Gmail app for normal (non-Google!) IMAP/SMTP services.

Long story short: I'm going to try K-9 Mail again!



Me too. I started using FairEmail recently when I finally decided to get a non-gmail email address, but I've been unhappy that it doesn't seem to understand that "junk" is my spam folder. Instead, it wants to handle the spam itself by blocking individual senders, which is pointless.

My desktop client seems to understand it.

And I just installed K9 and you can configure the spam folder, so I feel pretty good about it, too. I'm actually looking forward to the next spam that makes it to my inbox so I can see where it ends up.


There was a big UI update last year or so. Been using it since then and liking it a lot.




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