Mozilla Thunderbird for Android is Almost Ready After 2 Years (itsfoss.com) 10
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It has been more than two years since K-9 Mail (an open-source email client for Android) joined the Mozilla Thunderbird project. Instead of making a new mobile app from scratch, Mozilla decided to convert K-9 Mail slowly into the new Thunderbird Android app.
While we have known about it for some time now, we finally have something to test: Thunderbird for Android (Beta). Mozilla is looking for users to test it and plans a stable release at the end of October. The new Thunderbird app is now available on the Play Store as a beta version for user testing. So, we are closer to the stable launch than ever before.
The article includes a few screenshots of the app...
"For the functionality side, you can expect things like light/dark theme, email signature, unified inbox, ability to enable/disable contact pictures, threaded view, and opt out of data usage collection for privacy..."
While we have known about it for some time now, we finally have something to test: Thunderbird for Android (Beta). Mozilla is looking for users to test it and plans a stable release at the end of October. The new Thunderbird app is now available on the Play Store as a beta version for user testing. So, we are closer to the stable launch than ever before.
The article includes a few screenshots of the app...
"For the functionality side, you can expect things like light/dark theme, email signature, unified inbox, ability to enable/disable contact pictures, threaded view, and opt out of data usage collection for privacy..."
Oh thank god! (Score:3, Funny)
It looks like Mozilla did nothing for 2 years. Which is a good thing. I was dreading they were going to f--- up K9 Mail now too, but based on the screenshots it looks no different.
K-9 DB export/import (Score:3)
Go to settings > export DB > save the file somewhere.
Then on the new phone: settings > import DB > select the file > type in your account passwords.
I hope they implement the same thing for Thunderbird on desktop and for Firefox on both Android and desktop.
For Firefox the only way is to use their sync server or implement host your own (with their over-complicated solution).
I know they provide a docker image for this, but come on, this should be way easier.
Re: (Score:2)
For Firefox you can move the profile. It isn't user very friendly but it is supported. https://support.mozilla.org/en... [mozilla.org]
How I found this information: Go to help / move to a new device, it takes you to a page asking you to create an account. There is an FAQ down the page, one item is "can I move to another computer without a Mozilla account" (or something like that).
Mozilla added default-on "telemetry" (Score:5, Informative)
https://github.com/thunderbird... [github.com]
You cannot avoid it. If you turn it off, the horse has already left the barn.
Disable an anti-tracking plugin that doesn't track for tracking - check. Track without user consent - check. Mozilla being Mozilla.
FairEmail? (Score:3)
Threads (Score:2)
As long as it isn't as arse as desktop Thunderbird (Score:1)
Hopefully Thunderbird can port this K9 Mail to desktop to replace Thunderbird, the email client that is somehow even worse than Outlook.
I use k9mail on android and thunderbird on linux (Score:2)
One thing I miss is the tags I set in thunderbird don't show in k9. I checked this beta, doesn't show work there either, so what exactly changed since the last k9?
Turn K-9 Mail into Thunderbird (Score:2)
means turning a light, fast and pleasant to use email client into a slow bloated whale of a program with a million features nobody wants.
I sure hope Mozilla exercised restraint on that one.