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Hi Ryan, nice seeing you here. If you don't mind, would love to hear your thoughts:

I’m missing a story about mobile Linux. Has this been discussed; is this something on the roadmap?

There are already excellent e-mail options for iOS. Right now there is almost nothing outside of the cli that’s usable on mobile Linux. Thunderbird would have a chance of being the main choice while helping adoption of mobile Linux in the medium-to long-term.

I understand it’s not realistic to expect anything anytime soon, but I do hope this is being discussed and that we will see a strategy for it.

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Have you tried Geary on mobile Linux? I haven't (no pinephone or similar), so I'm sincerely asking. It works well in a very narrow window on desktop Linux, so that seems hopeful? I wonder if it's excessively memory hungry or syncs mail inefficiently, though.

If anyone wants a free pinephone + will use it for something useful (and is prepared to pay the postage from Melbourne, Australia), then they're welcome to mine.

I bought one a few months ago to support the project but never ended up using it. It's still sitting in a drawer.

Realistically, there's no hope I'll ever do anything with it myself. ;)

Sounds great, if no takers yet! I’ve been meaning to do some PostMarketOS dev and it’s one of the primary supported devices. I’m at the other end of the world though, so if someone closer is interested that’d make more sense! Mail is in profile.

No-one else has stepped forward yet. Just emailed you so we can figure it out. :)

I've tried it a bit.

It's the most viable and promising so far I think. I have too many directories for it to be usable without some new features, though (namely highlight dirs with new mail and more filtering capabilities). It's practically unusable, but granted I may have an unusual setup. If you just have a handful of active folders it might be great.

Didn't notice any surprising syncing issues so far.

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