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Thunderbird for Android is coming soon! Find out how to get involved, from beta testing to localization to support and more, in our shiny new contributor guide!

(Seriously, by soon, we mean soon!)

#Thunderbird #Android #OpenSource

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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Looking forward to it.

Would be nice if the documentation explained what "SUMO" is. I could not find that anywhere.

in reply to Vincent Tunru

@VincentTunru Alright, thanks. That makes sense.
For some reason the linked article, and the "getting started with SUMO" one do not mention/clarify that.
in reply to zeromind

@zeromind @VincentTunru Thanks for catching this! It has been a busy week, between Thunderbird for Android and an impending hurricane! I'll go ahead and edit that. :)
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I'm trying to find the beta on F-Droid, and I have enabled "Unstable updates" but I can't find it. Is it called "Thunderbird for Android", or still K9?
in reply to Vincent Tunru

@VincentTunru The Thunderbird for Android beta isn't out yet! But keep an eye on this space early next week and we'll let you know when to check. šŸ˜‰
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wow, wasn't expecting it any time soon, and I haven't really knew about K-9 Mail, but I'm looking forward to the great Thunderbird expansion :blobcatThumbsUp:
in reply to šŸŸ© EnlošŸŸ£

@enlogg If you want to do some reading before the beta, we have blog posts all about how we've been developing and improving K-9 Mail to get it ready for its upcoming transformation! blog.thunderbird.net/category/ā€¦
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Hi, that's amazing news, I'm a big fan of Thunderbird for desktop. But have you considered the siphon this will cause to other small open source mailing apps, that will lose users, feedback, donations ? Has this been anticipated ?
in reply to Kalytis

@Kalytis That's an understandable concern - and if you read our very first blog about this, you can see we partnered with K-9 Mail to avoid some of this: blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/rā€¦
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Well, that is great for K-mail, and it makes sense that you partner with them, but I was talking about the impact on the other mail apps, like Fairemail (which I'm using) and others. I don't see this addressed here.
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As a regular Firefox Android user, I am so there!

Would be awesome to have something besides the default Gmail app

in reply to Sollace

@sollace
You do not need to wait. K9 mail (which was taken over by Mozilla to become thunderbird for Android, hopefully I described it correctly) got many improvements and is a great mail client.
in reply to j

@jonasgraphie @sollace Yup! K-9 Mail has been the existing Thunderbird for Android beta (just with a robot dog instead of a bird) for the past few years! (And yes, we/MZLA did acquire it to make it into Thunderbird for Android, so good summary!)
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Have you added the "send later" feature yet? That's the only reason I'm a paid subscriber of Aquamail on Android.
in reply to 52 Fighters

@52fighters Not as of yet, though we know it's a popular request. Another way to show support for it and have other people upvote the idea is to submit it to Mozilla Connect (connect.mozilla.org)
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I was already wondering why there was no new release on GitHub since the end of June. šŸ˜…

Looking very much forward to the first stable release.

in reply to Peter

@Barral In planning stages. Let's get Thunderbird for Android off the ground, and once those plans start turning into action, including hiring, we'll keep people updated.
in reply to cboehmit

@cboehmit Initially, they'll exist side by side. Because of how the Play store works, you'll need to download TB for Android separately. We'll have instructions to transfer your information from K-9 Mail.
in reply to Dan Milway

@thrilway

I was wondering the same. I have the K9 beta installed. Will that morph into Thunderbird beta?

@thunderbird

in reply to Nick G

@ratcatcher @thrilway While we'd love if K-9 Mail could regenerate automagically into Thunderbird, the Google Play Store doesn't like that. You'll need to download Thunderbird for Android separately, and we'll have instructions on how to transfer your information between the two apps. (For the immediate future, a separate K-9 Mail branded app will still exist.)
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Congratulations !
Nice to see you on Android.
Working well on android 9.
Look like, close to K-9 mail...
I hope soon on Harmony Os Next !
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