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whiteout-io / mail

[ABANDONED] Mail App with integrated OpenPGP encryption
https://whiteout.io
MIT License
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[Feature Request] Add on F-Droid #375

Open jinformatique opened 9 years ago

jinformatique commented 9 years ago

Hi and thanks for this great app!

If the android app: Whiteout Mail: easy to use PGP is Free and Open Source Software, it would be great to add it to F-Droid not just google play store.

It seems it's already in the Submission Queue: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/whiteoutmail/

tanx commented 9 years ago

@juanito003 thanks for the info. There is no reason why Whiteout shouldn't be available in other app stores. Are you familiar with how the process works? Would it help if we just publish the signed APK on GitHub releases along with the zip file for the chrome web store?

jinformatique commented 9 years ago

@tanx sorry I never submitted an app to F-Droid as I don't code android app for now. All I know is the contribute page that involve some reading.

Submit Applications

If you see an application missing from the repository (after reading the inclusion policy), please feel free to submit it via the dedicated Submission Queue section of the forum. If you have the technical skills required, you can also put together the relevant metadata and submit that via the git repository, which will drastically speed up the inclusion of the application.

The manual should help with this.

felixhammerl commented 9 years ago

The reason we didn't do F-Droid until now is that the customized OSes seem to be somewhat less reliable for our application stack. If we give F-Droid a shot, it'll probably be under a "proceed at your own risk" policy, in order to avoid an avalanche of angry mails for our support staff (aka me) ;)

jinformatique commented 9 years ago

less reliable

less reliable in what?? What risk is there to use a FOSS OS? Since Edward Snowden revelation, I personnaly found other OSes (like CyanogenMod, AOSP) more reliable in term of security and features than default stock ROM provided by Google and bloatware added by mobile operator. I would never trust a ROM coming from Google or mobile operator as it is more subject to run backdoors from NSA and other agency. CyanogenMod, AOSP, F-Droid are FOSS. If it is not FOSS, I don't trust it and I prefer not to use it. This is the mindset I have when I install an apk: if it doesn't come from F-Droid then I cannot trust it. I would then use it with caution at my own risk. On the playstore there are many apps coming with malware even if Google start to test them one by one to verify them. I don't have anything against your work, I hope you understand I have a different mindset about encryption and security.

felixhammerl commented 9 years ago

calm down, my friend :)

as you know, android is a very diverse ecosystem with multitudes of devices, loads of manufacturers and different levels of influence the OEMs take on their own flavor of android (e.g. samsung). in that diverese ecosystem, the biggest common denominator is the underlying OS. we have seen whiteout mail work and fail of two identical OS versions, but different manufacturers. we have seen whiteout mail failing on cyanogen mod for no reason at all. all i'm saying is that F-Droid binds resources, because there are more variables to consider outside of our jurisdiction, hence more things that can and will go wrong, hence more support. so yes, i have seen that whiteout mail works less reliable on CM.

jinformatique commented 9 years ago

I didn't know one app could behave such differently on the same android ecosystem.

we have seen whiteout mail failing on cyanogen mod for no reason at all.

That's very sad. I guess there should be an unknow reason. It makes the debugging even more difficult then.

jinformatique commented 9 years ago

@felixhammerl I'm sorry for having been harsh as I didn't know the context about all these little differences that can make the app fail unexpectedly.

pravi commented 9 years ago

Just moved to Android from Firefox OS and I was looking for a gpg client. It seems K9 Mail with Open KeyChain can't support pgp mime yet. So I was looking for Whiteout Mail on FDroid but could not find. I have a CyanogenMod device and I'm reluctant to use Google Play Store. Can you at least provide an APK? I will use it at my own risk.

tanx commented 9 years ago

@pravi sure I just release v1.1.0 to Google Play and uploaded to APKs to GitHub: https://github.com/whiteout-io/mail-html5/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Like you said, use at your own risk. The App has a dependency to Google Play Services when you use OAuth login to an Android device's existing Google account. So just use standard password login if the app crashes there.