# FidoMail Mobile — FidoNet & Usenet mail client

> FidoNet & Usenet mail client (iPhone/iPad app by Dmitry Protasov.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fidomail-mobile/id6802163157 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dmitry Protasov](https://appshunter.io/developer/6802163159)
- Category: Social Networking, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 31 MB
- Languages: American English, Catalan, Dutch, Russian, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-08
- Data updated: 2026-09-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fidomail-mobile/id6802163157/reviews.md

## What is FidoMail Mobile?

FidoMail Mobile is a mobile client for Fidonet, the amateur mail network that has been running since 1984 and is still alive today. The app connects to your boss (the uplink node) over binkp and lets you read and reply in echoes and netmail, transfer files, and more. NNTP and IMAP servers are supported too, with minimal Usenet support.

To use Fidonet you need a point address from a node's sysop: the point address and a password. The setup wizard gets the connection configured quickly. NNTP and IMAP servers need only a host and, if required, a login.

FEATURES
• Fidonet over binkp/1.1: echomail and netmail, ARCmail bundles, separate session and packet passwords, AreaFix subscription management from inside the app
• NNTP with TLS or STARTTLS, reading and posting
• IMAP support for reading echoes (unique to this client)
• Threaded message list, unread navigation, full-text search
• Composer with quoting, reply templates, signatures and the classic Fidonet reply style; drafts and an outbox
• Filters and scoring: highlight or hide messages by author, subject or other fields; block senders
• Address book collected from the mail you read
• Scheduled background mail exchange with notifications for new mail
• Charsets: CP866, CP1251, KOI8-R, UTF-8 and more, for reading and posting
• Pseudographics and box-drawing characters rendered in a bundled monospace font
• Backup and restore of settings and messages
• English, Russian, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan interface

FidoMail Mobile is free, with no ads and no analytics.

Fidonet is an amateur computer network. Ask any sysop for a point address; the developer runs a public node at 2:5001/100 (see fidomail.5001.ru).


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.12 — 2026-09-27

• The app can now work as a node, not only as a point. The "Set up Fidonet" wizard asks "Point" or "Node"; for a node you enter its address, and the app works with the uplink the same way a point works with its boss. Echomail written from a node address carries SEEN-BY and PATH lines, as FTS-0004 requires.
• Geek Code support: if a message carries one (the GC kludge, a "BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK" in the text, or a @GC: line), the message header gets a "Geek:" line. Tap it to see what the code means.
• The message counter in the reader header shows unread/total while the echo has unread messages, as before. Once everything is read, it shows the number of the open message, "425 of 439".
• "Mark all read" now takes you to the newest message.
• A new "Add greeting and signature" checkbox in the message editor. Untick it and this one message goes out without the greeting and the signature — useful for AreaFix requests written by hand, since some robots read a signature line as one more command.
• The attach menu has "Choose from gallery…".
• Quoting a line that starts with ">" now gives ">>", as other FidoNet editors do, not "??>>".
• binkp fixes for better compatibility with Synchronet and BeeMail.
• The jNode AreaFix robot is now recognised.

### 1.11 — 2026-09-25

• Group counters now read "unread/total" (12/501). Unsent messages get their own mark, an up arrow with the number in a different colour, so they no longer run together with the other numbers. Settings → Look → "Count read messages" switches the counters to "read/total".
• Settings → Look → "Compact group list": one line per echo, just the name and the counters, so more echoes fit on the screen.
• A message counter in the reader: how many messages of the echo are read and how many remain. Settings → Reading → "Message counter" puts it at the bottom of the reader, under the group name, or turns it off.
• When you open an echo, the list scrolls so that the newer messages are visible: the current message goes to the top of the list under an ascending sort, and to the bottom under a descending one.
• Settings → Quoting has a fourth choice for "Re:" in reply subjects that removes it altogether: a reply to "Re: Re^2: Hello" gets the subject "Hello".
• A forwarded message no longer shows its Origin line twice.
• If there is no area list from the uplink yet, the "Subscriptions" screen shows your own echoes, so you can unsubscribe or add an echo by name without waiting for the list.
• GEcho is recognised as an AreaFix robot. It has no usable rescan command, and the app now says so instead of sending one that does nothing.

### 1.10 — 2026-09-22

• A netmail can carry a file: "Attach file…" in the composer has a "Send as a file attach" item beside UUE and web upload. Files that arrive with a netmail are listed under the message in an "Attachments" section, and can be saved or shared with another app.
• The composer's "Attributes" sheet sets Crash, Hold, Direct, "Kill after sending", "Return receipt", "Read confirmation" and "File request" (the subject names the files you request from the node).
• Return-receipt requests are answered on arrival (uplink setting "Answer return-receipt requests"). A message that asks for a read confirmation prompts you the first time you open it; the uplink setting can set it to "Never", "Ask each time" or "Always send".
• The "Inbound files" screen became "Files": the received files and the message each one belongs to.
• One "Subscriptions" screen for every kind of uplink: the echo list from AreaFix, the NNTP group list and now the IMAP folder list.
• "Go to the newest message" follows the sort order: under the Arrival sort it goes to the message that arrived last, not to a post with a date in the future.
• The header labels in the reader (From, To, Subj, Date) can be regular, bold or italic: Settings → Look → "Header labels".

### 1.9 — 2026-09-19

• Forwarded messages now open with a header block: the original author and address, the addressee, the date, the echo it came from, the subject and the origin line.
• Forwards carry the FSC-0092 kludge lines (FWDFROM, FWDORIG, FWDTO, FWDDEST, FWDSUBJ, FWDAREA, FWDMSGID), so readers that understand them can show who wrote the original. When such a forward reaches you, the message menu offers "Reply to original sender": a netmail to the author of the original message, threaded onto it.
• Every outgoing netmail and AreaFix request now carries a Via line (FTS-4009) with your point address and a UTC timestamp.
• Netmail addresses can be abbreviated the usual FidoNet way: if your address is 2:5001/100.7, then ".6" means 2:5001/100.6, "56" means 2:5001/56 and "5020/56" means 2:5020/56. The composer shows the full address it resolved to.
• "Unread groups only" and "Show invisible" are now remembered per uplink, instead of one switch for all of them.
• Volume-key mappings have a screen of their own: Settings → Reading → "Volume keys…".
• "Create score rule…" is hidden while scoring is switched off.
• AreaFix support for BBBS uplinks (the BRoboCop robot). That robot has no rescan command — it would read the request as an area name — so a rescan is not sent to it.

### 1.8 — 2026-09-18

• Replies now go out in the charset of the message you are answering, when that charset can carry every character you typed: a reply to a LATIN-1 message in a CP866 echo goes out in LATIN-1, a reply to a KOI8-R message in KOI8-R, a reply to a UTF-8 message in UTF-8. When it cannot (Cyrillic in reply to a CP437 message, say), the echo's charset is used as before, and the composer says so under the message header. On by default: Settings → "Reply in the original message's charset".
• Netmail follows the same rule: mail that arrived in UTF-8 is answered in UTF-8, with "Send in UTF-8" already ticked — you can still untick it. Mail that arrived in an 8-bit charset is answered in that charset, or in plain ASCII when the whole reply is 7-bit.
• Only the charset the sender declared counts. With no CHRS kludge in the original, the reply uses your echo's charset, whatever charset the app had to guess to read it.
• PING replies now carry Via lines of their own (FTS-4009): the arrival line closes the quoted chain in the text, the departure line rides on the reply as a kludge, both with your point address and a UTC time. The reply is kept in Sent.
• Netmail routed through MBSE showed a blank line above the text for every kludge — mbfido ends its lines with LF CR. A CR and an LF next to each other, in either order, now count as one line break.

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