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Originally Posted by Avion
I quite like Fairemail and have used it for several years, however Marcel Bokhorst (the app creator) is a perfectionist, and takes exception if the app gets less than 5 stars on the Play Store, and has hinted in the past that he might just scrap the app. I don't know whether that is still (currently) the case, but nevertheless it is a concern.
Also, a few weeks ago, the app occasionally stopped notifying of new messages, and I had to manually check the app - mostly it worked, occasionally it didn't. I don't know if it is an app or my phone problem.
Currently using K9 mail, and I've used it on and off over the years.
I also use the default Gmail app, but just for my Gmail account.
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Yes FairEmail is cool for power user but as you mentioned it perfectly, Marcel is the one-man show and I've been in touch with him numerous times and the responses were superb (often receive a reply within minutes no matter the timezone, impressive!). However there're some feature requests or "bugs" as I call them, don't get into his fix list as he doesn't acknowledge them as bugs hence I have to live with that for as long as I'm with the app, until now -- see below that I'm currently switching to
Nine Mail 
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Originally Posted by TenFour
I've tried a bunch of them too. Recently I checked out K9 since it is morphing into Thunderbird soon. Seems to work OK, though very slow to fetch emails from my IMAP account for some reason. I might be able to change that in the settings. I hate the current logo, which is a minor turnoff. Fairemail has a million settings and takes awhile to get setup the way you want it, and the touchy developer is a bit worrisome. Samsung email is pretty reliable and simple. I suggest checking it out as one of the most straightforward email apps maintained by a major company. Not sure about its ability to work offline though. Edison is very fast in fetching emails, has a good interface, and has unique features. But, I'm not into having my email app automatically filter and categorize my emails, so much of the additional functionality is lost on me. Same with Onmail by the same company. I personally really like Gmail, though I find it forces you to use their POP3 for fetching. This can be frustratingly slow, resulting in delays of up to an hour before email is received unless you force a mail check using the web interface. I personally like labels as opposed to folders. I would be very wary of using many Android apps that are relatively unknown with smaller user bases. It seems like every day I read of some Android app that has become malware of some sort. For now I am using Gmail as my main email app, but still looking.
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That's a comprehensive list that you've tried, appreciate your feedback. But I see you haven't tried some "cloud-based" ones that I mentioned above i.e. BlueMail, SparkMail etc. Because they're highly rated by people who use it but I don't know if I should give them a try.
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Originally Posted by TenFour
I just checked and you can sync (IMAP) up to a month's worth of email with the Samsung app, and you can set it to retrieve emails as received instead of only every 15 minutes or so. Since I have unlimited data I would go for instant retrieval. Very easy to set up.
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Good to know! That's one vote for Samsung Email
I'm currently trying out
Nine Mail, it was one that I purchased a license long long time ago (not sure if it's still possible now -- similar to AquaMail that you can be grandfathered into a PRO license if you did purchase a one-time license before).
Nine Mail has a better UI than FairEmail but lack of the ability to manage identities, there's a workaround though if anyone wants to know let me know.
So far I'm staying with Nine Mail and getting rid of FairEmail (this is a Hi-Bye-Hi friend as always lol) and ZohoMail (connecting it to Nine Mail as well).
On the plus side, Nine Mail can also handle ActiveSync and Exchange Server if you ever need one.