

Use the new API to schedule checks for new mail (can't be more frequent than every 15 minutes) When the device tells us to go to sleep we do. Learn more about it here: Optimizing for Doze and App StandbyĪs far as I can tell we have these options: CommunicationĪside from discussing changes in pull requests and issues we use the following communication services:ĭoze reduces battery consumption by deferring background CPU and network activity for apps when the device is unused for long periods of time. Please make sure you read the Code Style Guidelines. Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests.Īny contributions, large or small, major features, bug fixes, unit/integration tests are welcomed and appreciated but will be thoroughly reviewed and discussed. Thank you for contributing! If you're unfamiliar with the code, start by reading the developer documentation Interested in helping to translate K-9 Mail? Contribute here: If the app is not behaving like it should, you might find these resources helpful: Release NotesĬheck out the Release Notes to find out what changed in each version of K-9 Mail.

You might also be interested in becoming a tester to get an early look at new versions. K-9 Mail can be downloaded from a couple of sources: Here’s how the first screen will look after you have configured your accounts.K-9 Mail is an open-source email client for Android. You can change the font size, and that’s about it for the front-on display. K-9 Mail gives you two themes – Light and Dark. It is not very glamorous to look at but I hope it’s not looks you are after. K-9 supports IMAP, POP3 and Exchange 2003/2007 (with WebDAV). The mail client is based on Gmail’s original email client for Android but it comes in with a whole lot of other features. K-9 Mail is completely community developed and is hosted at Github. It sounded more like a German U-Boat than a full-featured Android email client.īut from first impressions, it seems that it’s just as capable of torpedoing any deficiencies in my mobile email management. Google Play gave me the rather un-mail like name of K-9 Mail.

The great thing about Android is that there usually are alternatives to be found that address the shortcomings of one program.
