Sterna Mail
Private email client for JMAP and IMAP/SMTP. No Google services, no tracking.
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Description
Sterna Mail is a private, modern email client for Android, built for JMAP, the faster successor to IMAP, with full support for classic IMAP/SMTP too. Adding an account starts from your email address alone: Sterna Mail works out the rest from what your domain publishes, and falls back to a manual form with the protocol and the server details when it publishes nothing. It fits JMAP servers like Stalwart as well as any standard mail provider.
It is private by default, pleasant to use, and fully free software (GPLv3). No tracking, no ads, no analytics, and no Google services required.
Reading and organising:
* Unified inbox across multiple accounts (JMAP and/or IMAP/SMTP), fully offline with a local cache
* Multiple JMAP accounts under a single login (delegated, shared or team mailboxes), each with its own folders, notifications and Sent copies
* Conversation threading, nested folders, configurable swipe actions, stars, archive and delete with undo
* Multi-select bulk actions, snooze, report spam, sort and unread-only filter
* Search as you type, combining instant local results with server-side search, plus filters for sender, subject, attachments and date
* Calendar invitations preview as an event card and go into your calendar app in one tap
Writing and sending:
* Compose with recipient autocomplete, multiple identities each with its own signature, attachments and drafts
* Replies come from the address the message was sent to, with that identity's signature
* Undo send, schedule send, and reminders for a forgotten attachment or a large recipient list
* Opens mailto: links from any app or browser, prefilled
Accounts, notifications and encryption:
* Add an account with just your email and password (autodiscovery), password-free OAuth 2.0 sign-in, or manual IMAP/SMTP setup with provider presets
* Push notifications for new mail with no Google and no FCM, over JMAP EventSource, IMAP IDLE or UnifiedPush, grouped per account and with quiet hours
* OpenPGP encryption through an external OpenPGP app such as OpenKeychain, on both JMAP and IMAP/SMTP. Decrypted content is never written to disk, with attachments as the exception: one you open is written to the app's own storage until the cache is cleared, and one you save goes to the folder you pick and stays there. Printing a message, or saving it as a PDF, hands its decrypted text to the system print service
* Remote images and tracking pixels blocked by default, and tracking parameters can be stripped from links before they open
* Credentials encrypted with the Android KeyStore, app lock with biometrics or a PIN
Server features and polish:
* Server-side vacation responder, Sieve filter rules, and mailbox quota display
* Material 3 interface with its own light and dark themes, optional Material You, and adjustable message text size
* Available in nine languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian
* Screen-reader friendly, with settings export and import
Sterna Mail is open source, and its release builds are reproducible: F-Droid checks that the app it distributes is byte for byte the one built from the published source. The code can be read, audited, and improved by anyone.
What’s new (1.5.4)
Reading
- On a window at least 600 dp wide, the inbox lays out in two panes: the list on the left, the open message on the right. From 1200 dp the folder drawer stays beside the list, with no hamburger. Below 600 dp the layout does not change.
- An IMAP account now groups its messages into conversations, like a JMAP one. The thread is rebuilt on the phone from the message's own References header. An existing folder stays flat until its next refresh, then groups.
- The Message list preview setti
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
- NotificationsShow notifications.
- Read contactsAccess the address book.
- Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE
- Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
- BiometricsUnlock with fingerprint or face.
Show 3 more permissions
- FingerprintUnlock with a fingerprint.
- Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
- sterna.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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