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Mozilla Thunderbird Project Reveals Plans For Android Email Client

K-9 Mail joins the Mozilla Thunderbird family in a collaborative first step towards offering a seamless, powerful email experience across platforms.
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R. L. Dane
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So exciting! Hoping to see OAUTH implemented in k9/tbird for Android in the near future!
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motang 🇮🇳🇺🇲
motang 🇮🇳🇺🇲
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Well look at that, instead of making your own you are colaborating with something that's already out, open source, and awesome already! Good news all around if you ask me.
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Jumping Langur
Jumping Langur
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great move! Been using K9 mail for years, it is a stellar mail app that ticks all the right boxes for me.
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TheFrenchGhosty
TheFrenchGhosty
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>K-9 Mail officially joins the Thunderbird family.

In other word, Mozilla is buying K-9... fuck.

Hope someone fork it if the Thunderbird spyware/crap come to it.

I like (and use) Thunderbird, but the fact that it loads a tracking web page when you start it, the fact that analytics is opt-out and the fact that it's a full browser is really shitty.

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John Livingston
John Livingston
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Great news!
Will k-9 display tags added in thunderbird desktop? And allow editing of tags?
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
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Whoa! Didn't see that one coming! Still, I'm cautiously optimistic about this. #K9 has been great for a long time, but short on marketing and funding. #Thunderbird has more recognition, but no #Android app. The two together could definitely be stronger than their separate parts. Plus, to be honest, I was wondering how long it would be before K9 got in trouble for the name/logo combo. This neatly sidesteps that before it's even a problem!
#android #thunderbird #K9
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Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth
Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth
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A sensible choice! I love k9-mail despite its flaws on Android, and I love #Thunderbird on the Desktop. But, what am I going to use on my #mobile #linux desktop... mmh
#linux #mobile #thunderbird
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Rodrigo Silva
Rodrigo Silva
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You joined forces with @k9mail to release a mobile version (awesome move btw) but have you also thought about joining forces with a webmail project to release a self hosted webmail app or even it's own privacy focused e-mail service (which could be a source of revenue)? Just an idea! 😉
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Peter Vágner
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@SubieMom @K-9 Mail @Thunderbird Definatelly has unified folders, see it in the View menu. Or see answer to this question: support.mozilla.org/en-US/ques…
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Andreas Chatzopoulos 👾
Andreas Chatzopoulos 👾
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I hope there will be a way to turn it off for us that uses a separate calendar app. Never understood why people want to bundle mail and calendar.
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SallyBlack
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#ThunderbirdforAndroid

Just donated to support Thunderbird for Android!

#thunderbirdforandroid
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Thank you for supporting our work -- and for supporting open source. We really appreciate it an it makes a difference! 💙
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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(By the way, we do want to add "Share on Mastodon" to that post-donation page. Hopefully that can get implemented soon)
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Café-Junkie
Café-Junkie
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Hello Thunderbird.
As much as I like to see more crypt-automation (thanks), I would REALLY like to see an implementation of AutoCrypt in Thunderbird INCLUDING an indication of trust. See implementation at Threema: threema.ch/en/faq/levels_expl
PLEASE can you integrate AutoCrypt as soon as possible!?
Many thanks.

What do the three colored dots next to a contact mean? – Threema

The dots are an indicator for a contact’s verification level. They don’t affect the encryption strength (it is always the same high-grade ECC-base…
threema.ch
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Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)
Kai Engert 🔑✉️ (:KaiE)
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there is an FAQ response regarding Autocrypt support in Thunderbird:
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/o…

When viewing an email with a digital signature of a correspondent, the signature icon indicates what level of trust you have for the sender's key, details can be seen by clicking the icon.

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OpenPGP in Thunderbird - HOWTO and FAQ | Thunderbird Help

This article answers common questions about OpenPGP support in Thunderbird, as implemented in End-To-End Encryption (e2ee), and how it differs from Enigmail.
support.mozilla.org
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Café-Junkie
Café-Junkie
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2/2 -> EN (siehe 1/2 -> DE)
Hello Kai.
It seems to me that TB doesn't really want encryption.
:'-/
Otherwise you could combine the best of both worlds: ALWAYS create a key automatically for each account, ALWAYS send it (in the header), BUT point out if it is not verified.
It's not that difficult to advance email encryption!
DeltaChat or Threema can do it too.
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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[1/2] Hi, let us jump in real quick:

Thunderbird wants to support end-to-end encryption, and implements it.

What Thunderbird doesn't offer is fully automatic opportunistic encryption, because there are various associated risks, and it can have undesirable consequences for users, such as no longer being able to access your email from webmail or other clients, or losing your email archive if you haven't taken care of private keys.

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[2/2] These are some of the reasons why we use a model that requires opting in to end-to-end encryption, but we're working hard to make it easier to use, step by step.

And we definitely appreciate your feedback on this, so keep it coming. Thanks!

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Café-Junkie
Café-Junkie
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Thank you for the answer.
But don't you think there are already easy solutions for the risks mentioned? For example:
mailvelope.com/ for web access,
saving emails decrypted locally or automatically backing up the keys within the local mail folders,
key sharing platforms etc. ...
I do understand the concerns. But it does not help encryption to wait for a solution for every single edge case.

Mailvelope: PGP für Gmail & Webmailer

Der 'Briefumschlag' für Ihre E-Mails! Mailvelope erweitert Ihre Webmail-Adresse um eine End-to-End Verschlüsselung.
mailvelope.com
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Café-Junkie
Café-Junkie
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DE:
Danke für die Antwort.
Aber gibt es nicht bereits einfache Lösungen für die genannten Risiken? Z.B.:
mailvelope.com/ für Web-Mailer,
Speicherung entschlüsselter E-Mails lokal oder automatische Sicherung der Schlüssel in den lokalen E-Mail-Ordnern,
Key-Sharing-Plattformen usw. ...
Ich kann die Bedenken durchaus nachvollziehen. Aber es ist der Verschlüsselung ja auch nicht dienlich, auf die Lösung für jeden Grenzfall zu warten.

Mailvelope: PGP für Gmail & Webmailer

Der 'Briefumschlag' für Ihre E-Mails! Mailvelope erweitert Ihre Webmail-Adresse um eine End-to-End Verschlüsselung.
mailvelope.com
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