Email review by wander

Email — Community App Review
Version: 0.1.1

Email reads and writes the mail of any account that takes a password: IMAP or POP3 in, SMTP out. Type your address and it looks up how to reach your provider; if it cannot find out, you fill the servers in by hand.

It is Thunderbird for Android with the mail left as they built it and the screen drawn again for this one. Everything is black and white and set in Lato. There are no avatars, no icons beside settings, and nothing animates. Dialogs and menus sit in a black rim instead of greying out the screen behind them.

A swipe turns one page and stops, in the inbox, in settings and in a long message, and the row or line the old page cut through opens the new one, so there is always something to read on from.

Signing in is by password. The “Sign in with Google” and Microsoft buttons are Mozilla’s and do not come with a fork, so Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and Fastmail need an app password, made in the account’s own security settings. Outlook.com no longer accepts passwords from mail apps and cannot be used here.

With Glance installed ( GitHub - wanderwildwood/hitome: Glance: today's events, the weather and what is unread, on the Mudita Kompakt's lock screen · GitHub ), how much mail is unread also shows on the Kompakt’s lock screen; only the number is shared, and Settings has the switch.

It talks to your mail servers and nothing else, except that setting up an account asks your domain, and Mozilla’s list of providers, how to reach it. It installs beside Thunderbird rather than over it.

Source, and the licence: GitHub - wanderwildwood/tayori: Email for the Mudita Kompakt: Thunderbird for Android in black and white, a page per swipe · GitHub — GPL-3.0, with Thunderbird’s own code under Apache 2.0.

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Review for version 0.1.1
User rating: ★★★★★

I was using outlook app because of my work, and my personal email was configured there as well. Now I have 2 email apps, which is kind of annoying to have but, I had to have this. It looks great. Thank you!

Review for version 0.1.1
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

Thanks. A work Outlook account usually needs Microsoft’s own sign-in, which Email can’t do yet: it’s being worked on, with no date. Other accounts that take a password, or an app password, work now.

Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.1 → 0.1.2
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Review for version 0.1.2
User rating: ★★★★★

I already accepted the fact that I have to have Outlook on the phone. Any other app will be blocked from my IT department. (Even if I try to log in using OAuth2.0)
Don’t get me wrong, I will try it when you release it, but no date is no problem!

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Review for version 0.1.2
User rating: ★★☆☆☆

I’m liking the look of the layout but currently can’t log in with protonmail, keep getting an error. Is protonmail not supported?

Review for version 0.1.2
User rating: ★★★★★

with proton you might need the desktop bridging app I think, I might be wrong.

Review for version 0.1.2
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

mertgndz has it. Proton doesn’t let mail apps connect directly: its mail only comes out through Proton Mail Bridge, which runs on a computer, not a phone. So Email can’t open a Proton account, and neither can any phone mail app but Proton’s own. Accounts that take a password, or an app password, work now.

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Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.2 → 0.1.3
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Review for version 0.1.3
User rating: ★★★★★

Swiss Infomaniak works right out of the box. THANK YOU! Even with Apple Mail, it was a real hassle to set up…. my Mac Studio isn’t properly configured yet because of the difficulties syncing email through Infomaniak. Crazy that my Mudita Kompakt handles this best and most easily now. You are fire! All those new apps… fantastic. :ok_hand:

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Review for version 0.1.3
User rating: ★★☆☆☆

Ah well, guess that’s it for me then. I can log into Thunderbird with it so I hoped it would still be compatible. Neat app anyway!

Review for version 0.1.3
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

I am working on getting a work-around for Microsoft Office 360… stay tuned.

Review for version 0.1.3
User rating: ★★★★★

I think I have a bug, the compose button dissapears in the inbox after a couple seconds. And it is not clickable.

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Review for version 0.1.3
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

Thanks for this. The button slid off the screen whenever the inbox scrolled down, and on E Ink it could leave a picture of itself behind that did nothing when tapped. Version 0.1.4 keeps it in place.

It also lists every account’s folders in the side menu when the unified inbox is on, not just the Inbox.

Obtainium should pick it up, or it is here: Release v0.1.4 · wanderwildwood/tayori · GitHub

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Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.3 → 0.1.5
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Review for version 0.1.5
User rating: ★★★★★

Sadly, I’m at 1.5 but it the compose still disappears after a couple seconds.

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Review for version 0.1.5
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review

Thanks for sticking with it. On the Kompakt the inbox list was being drawn over the button a few seconds after opening, so it vanished and taps went to the list instead. Version 0.1.6 keeps the button on top.

The same slow start could also close Email when coming back from Settings; that is fixed too.

Obtainium should pick it up, or it is here: Release v0.1.6 · wanderwildwood/tayori · GitHub

Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.5 → 0.1.6
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Review for version 0.1.6
User rating: ★★★★★

all good thank you!

Review updated by @wander

  • Version: 0.1.6 → 0.1.8
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