Permissions

In order to perform various tasks and provide a cohesive email client, K-9 uses various permissions. See our Privacy Policy for information on how we handle personal information obtained via these permissions.

Network Communication

Full Internet Access

In order to connect to your email server, K-9 needs the ability to create and manage network connections. We do this with careful consideration for both battery life and security - only opening connections as needed.

Storage

External Storage Modification

Attachments and settings can be loaded and saved onto external storage. In order read and write these files we need access to do so.

Extra/Custom

Read Contacts

In order to mark e-mail that comes from your contacts and use your contacts to provide email address auto-completion, we need access to your contacts

Write Contacts

In order to note that a contact has been emailed we need write-access.

Control Vibration

One of the settings of K-9 is to vibrate on receiving an email. In order to do this we need control of vibration.

Prevent Device from Sleeping

When we are in the middle of downloading email we want to be able to finish sending / receiving that request.

Automatically Start on Boot

In order to pick up your email when the device is started we need to be able start on boot.

View Network State

In order to determine whether we should try and connect we need to be able to know the network state.

Read Sync Settings

In order to fetch contacts properly we need this permission