Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual CASA security audit?

naveen · November 12, 2024, 3:15pm

Notices

Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual CASA security audit, which must be conducted by an authorized assessor (this year TAC Security). Besides being time-consuming, this is no longer free as of this year. This is one of the reasons why the app cannot be completely free.

naveen · November 12, 2024, 3:17pm

After FairEmail gets Paid App, then have the other option is Thunderbird for Android and K-9 Mail.

Licaon_Kter · November 12, 2024, 3:27pm

github.com

M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

## Changelog

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### Notices

Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual [CASA](https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa) security audit,
which must be conducted by an authorized assessor (this year [TAC Security](https://casa.tacsecurity.com/site/home)).
Besides being time-consuming, this is no longer free as of this year.
This is one of the reasons why the app cannot be completely free.

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People keep asking me to add new, often exotic, features to the app, to whom I often say "no", and other people complain about too many features.
Both groups of people leave bad reviews for this, which is frustrating, also because there are already enough bad reviews for the wrong reasons
(email server problems, which unfortunately happen too often, etc.).
The main problem is that more features now make more people unhappy than happy.
Therefore, [the rules for new features](https://m66b.github.io/FairEmail/#get-support) will be strictly followed from today.

No worries, the app will [continue to be maintained](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commits/) and supported as usual.

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cliffcoggin · November 12, 2024, 3:50pm

Why do you care what Google wants? Do you publish it on Play Store as well as F-Droid?

Licaon_Kter · November 12, 2024, 3:57pm

The app is in Play too, yes

The question is what happens next, albeit, afaik, in Play you can’t just make it “paid” if it was free or something like this.

So not sure it can switch to be like Conversations, paid in Play and free in F-Droid.

Cue · November 12, 2024, 5:10pm

This might not matter for the F-Droid version. It already has some differences as compared to the Play Store and Github versions.

And the app is free with some other paid features.