Google has removed k9mail_app from the Play Store [ ]

K9 mail will stop working with Gmail soon anyway, as Google has announced they will be terminating standard IMAP access and other so-called "insecure" methods, in favor of their proprietary "Sign in with Google" system, or OAuth2. The hostility is beginning to take the shape of a pattern.

The writing is on the wall:<p>If you value choice and open ecosystems, do not invest in a future where you rely on Google apps any more than you need to.<p>Big G will burn you and not care at all.

I mean, it almost makes sense. A client that is <i>not</i> just a facade for some proprietary backend? In 2022? Preposterous!

Well, I hope they sort this out. K9 is my &quot;Plan B&quot; after my GAFYD&#x2F;Google Workspace free subscription is terminated. Keep the email address, but necessarily off Google and off their native email client. Mostly because I still want push mail aka IMAP IDLE, which works (tested it) with my chosen replacement mail provider and K9.

Apparently no one at Google can believe that there is such a thing as software that doesn&#x27;t require an account.