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Readdle Brings Free Spark Email App To Android, Promises No Ads or Tracking (venturebeat.com)
Twelve years after its inception, Readdle is finally venturing beyond Apple's ecosystem with the launch today of its Spark email app for Android. This comes on the heels of Google killing its own popular Inbox email app. From a report: Spark's Android app -- like its iOS and macOS incarnations -- includes three key selling points: It is free for individual users, does not serve ads, and offers a host of features aimed at power users. Plus, it supports all major email providers, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple. Spark for Android, like the now defunct Inbox app, sorts emails -- prioritizing more important messages to help you reach "inbox zero." It offers options to snooze an email and to schedule when an email should go out. You can also pin emails so that it is easier to find them later and get reminders to follow up on previous conversations. Advanced search functionality lets you use conversational keywords to find things like that PDF file your boss sent last week. So how exactly does the Ukrainian-headquartered company make money? Readdle offers a paid version of Spark that is aimed at small to medium-sized teams and enterprises.
If this works with yalp and MicroG, then I'll try it. A stand-alone download would be nice.
If it's free, you are probably the prodcut.
go read their privacy policy and after if you're ok with handing over all your email credentials, have at it.
https://sparkmailapp.com/priva...
Is there one that will just display emails in the order they came in and not try to write my replies for me?
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https://play.google.com/store/...
"This app doesn't advertise to you or spy on you." That's now a selling point? Jesus, how did Android sink this low? Wasn't it supposed to be the linuxy OS for cell phones?
MUAs should not be terribly complex creatures. Pine (alpine) and mutt still work. You can check mail in emacs. Mail clients traditionally did not spy on you -- the people hosting the servers or routing the mail might read it (thanks, NSA), but your mail client was secure (and handled S/MIME to fuck with the NSA).
Why is Android different? Is it because it's marketed at the masses and therefore treats users like commodities?
I don't see a business model. They'll break the promise.
Nope. Nope. Nope. You give it your credentials, and it seems their servers connect to the servers vs your device itself. No thank you, not leaving credentials on a 3rd party server. MS Outlook app for iOS and Android did the same thing.
I don't know this "app" nor do I care about its "ecosystem". The best I can come up with is that msmash obviously likes it so it must be for millennials. Oh well, thanks for making me feel old.
The pain, though, is in its "support for major mail providers". Wait, what, didn't we have open standards for that? Apparently those are so last week, and we have to have "apps" with specific support for websites just so you can read your email.
You know what? If you want to reach me, just write me a letter. In fact, I'm going to grade it and if it's a fail then you get it back covered in red ink to try again. You kids.
And don't say grandma can't do it! My grandma has it too, thanks to her grandson.
We share the server, so everyone pays only a few cents.
The server does a ton of other things too. Like being the phones' "cloud", superior "Dropbox", XMPP server, name server, certificate authority, VPN server (only to secure the phone/server connction properly).
As soon as I can get a.local static IP address at home, it will move there.
I think that's a good deal.
Android is AOSP+Google.
Which of course only ever meant maximum spying and selling it too.
If you ever wondered how Google can now he opening times of you extremely local tiny store... If you turn off GPS, it still tracks where you are (according to a recent Heise.de article), and uses those statistics to see when nobody is in the store. Including you.
Try LineageOS. ... Just kidding. There will never be a fully working official build for your phone, if at all, and the rooting/install procedure is obscure and spread over several incomplete, outdated, and self-contradicting forum posts.
Thanks to the great great (and in my eyes utterly Mafia-level criminal) lock-in that by definition comes with every for-profit organization in the end.
https://f-droid.org/app/com.fsck.k9
If it had automatic rules, it would be a desktop substitute.
I asked, and the reason it doesn't, is because with server rules, set from your desktop client, there is no need.
All it takes, is the makers not doing it for profit. (But e.g. for actual purposes that have a point, like improving life or advancing humanity.)
If you are OK with people being able to read all your emails then, by all means, use it. The truth is that this is another email client app among the scores of email client apps available under Android - it doesn't really have any distinguishing features that make it more (or less) compelling than any other such apps.
In box zero is the opposite of a prioritized in box.
In box zero means you read and respond to every email, until you have nothing left.
A prioritized in box means you don't read all you emails, and you only read and reply to the important emails.
What else did the OP get wrong?
"This comes on the heels of Google killing its own popular [citation needed] Inbox email app"
Fixed that for you