On February 18, 2020 7:27:59 AM HST, Barry Margolius <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>I never heard of FairEmail.  I'm going to look it up.  
>
>I've not yet tried the beta version, but I do like the accounts page. 
>I want to be ready with a K9 alternative in case I don't like it. 
>Anybody have other ideas about email clients to try?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf
>Of cx05
>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 1:34 AM
>To: K-9 Mail <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [k-9-mail] Re: Accounts list view gone?
>
>Seems the devs plan to bring back unread numbers in the account
>dropdown:
>
>https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/4515
>
>Although a small step in the right direction, it is really no
>replacement for the account overview page.
>
>I personally don't get why the account overview page would not fit in
>the new UI concept:
>They could just add an optional entry to the drawer on the left that
>navigates to the overview and make the back key also show it. This
>would also be the entry that is first shown when k9 starts. The
>overview page would then be an alias for the drawer UI.
>Not sure whether there are any difficulties considering the programming
>side, but UI wise this integration would work and give the best of both
>worlds.
>
>It really seems that the devs don't care about their long term power
>users. It's their right, but it will lead to a client that is inferior
>to many existing mail clients (e.g. FairEmail).
>K-9 currently cannot compete feature wise, but was more organized and
>resource efficient when using many accounts. That's the reason why I
>chose it. 
>Remove that overview page and it's just a gmail clone with fewer
>features than the competition. Thats the same road Opera went:
>sacrifice your core users for the sake of wider audience. But the wider
>audience does not care about the product and does not invest into it.
>Hope the devs reconsider this.
>
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Look in Fdroid, Internet category. I see a number of other email clients. I 
picked K-9 because it let me move emails between folders. I seem to remember 
that at least some of the others (including in Google Play Store) don't.

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