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11 months ago

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
11 months ago

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

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/c…

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zeromind

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Looking forward to it.

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

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Vincent Tunru

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@zeromind SUMO is support.mozilla.org :)

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zeromind

in reply to Vincent Tunru 11 months ago

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

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@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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Spoodle

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox 11 months ago

oh yeah 😎

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Vincent Tunru

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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?

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in reply to Vincent Tunru 11 months ago

@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. 😉

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@OhWeh Oh my gosh, thank you! You're absolutely awesome!

@08/15 🤍 #RIPNatenom 💔

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🟩Enlo🟣

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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

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@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/…

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Kalytis

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox 11 months ago

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 ?

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@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/r…

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Kalytis

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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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Aamir

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Your going up against tough competition with fairemail. Don't know if anything can replace it for me. email.faircode.eu/

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Sollace

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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

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j

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@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.

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@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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52 Fighters

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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.

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@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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Nico 🦇

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I was already wondering why there was no new release on GitHub since the end of June. 😅

Looking very much forward to the first stable release.

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Peter

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Where is Thunderbird for iOS?

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@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.

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cboehmit

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will it replace K9 or will they exist side by side?

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@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.

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cboehmit

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okay so the final plan is to deprecate K9, right?

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@73CC We know, we know, but honestly, it's 'check this space next week' soon

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Dan Milway

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Awesome! Is "K-9Mail" just gonna become "Thunderbird" at some point?

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Nick

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@thrilway

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

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@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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Darren

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I would donate Monero if you accepted it.

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