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Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?

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On 10/8/2018 8:36 AM, Arlen Holder wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 09:10:26 -0700, 123456789 wrote:

>> I've tried using K9 Mail on my Amazon Fire tablet that runs the 
>> Fire OS (approximately Android 5.x) and it works fine except for 
>> one problem. It won't update the Gmail servers correctly.

> I wish there was a better mail user agent than K-9Mail on Android.

Me too. Used K9 Mail for years with Gmail. Especially liked being able
to read 6 lines of an email without opening it. Then scrolling through
the list reading them and being able to do a group delete. All things
the Gmail app can't do (yet?).

> I feel it's best not to have any Google Account on an Android phone.

To late for me since I've been using Gmail for years. Great service (IMO).

> a. Once you have your apps, delete the initial bogus Google account

I need my real Gmail account on my phone to access my Google Drive which
gives my phone instant access to my 60+ GB of data. My phone
memory/storage is just not that large... ;)

> Since I usually _initially_ register an Android phone first with a 
> bogus Google Account (where I do the same on iOS but where, on iOS, 
> you can't subsequently delete that account and have no account, 
> AFAIK), the "Gmail" app *defaults* to that bogus initial account.

Sounds like a lot of work. My paranoia isn't quite that high.

> I should note that you don't have to delete the bogus Google account 
> since that bogus Gmail app account is actually useful, since it 
> allows you to register on web sites

I also have a bogus Gmail account for websites and news servers (which
feeds my real account) when I want to stay semi-anonymous.

> we then have to find a good mail user agent for Android.

I'm not sure what changed in the K9 Mail app or Gmail to produce that
one update bug but I've tried all the K9 versions I've backed up through
the years AND the Amazon App Store current version AND the current Play
Store version. All fail.

So I gave up and went back to using the current Gmail app. But thanks
for the info. I've saved it in case I have a change of heart...

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What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 09:09 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 09:29 +0000
    Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 09:39 +0000
    Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-10-04 09:10 -0700
      Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 15:36 +0000
        Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-10-08 10:29 -0700
          Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 21:51 +0000
            Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 23:01 +0000
            Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-10-08 16:13 -0700
              Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-09 00:18 +0000
                Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-10-08 20:31 -0400
                Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-09 02:33 +0000
                Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-10-08 19:20 -0700
                Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-09 02:31 +0000
                Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy and anything else we want to talk about. 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2018-10-08 22:11 -0700
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 10:18 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 10:34 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 11:45 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 12:20 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 13:54 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 18:07 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-04 18:12 +0000
  Re: What are the common settings to change on an Android 7.0 Nougat phone for privacy?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-08 23:21 +0000

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