The android version is just rebranded K-9 Mail, which was a fork of the built in Android mail client from Android 1.0. So there isn't a lot common in desktop and android Thunderbird, it's not a port.

Desktop Thunderbird uses Firefox ESR under the hood, I guess the Mac version is not ported to ios because Apple's limitation on browser engines.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not just... K-9 and Thunderbird worked together, so that K-9 godt features from Thunderbird and the other way round. True cooperation there.

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I follow its development, I wanted to emphasize it's not desktop Thunderbird ported to Android, but coming from a different source.

[–] dmaxel@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

They're working on a version for iOS: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-ios

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember K-9 Mail.

So Thunderbird requires a browser engine? I didn't think an email program was dependent upon a browser. I would expect one that was to be inefficient. Like a lot of people I work with use Outlook inside of Microsoft Edge. And I just look at them like they're crazy. Our workstations are powerful enough that there's not much difference, but why would you do that to yourself? (No, I'm not going to ask them. I don't want to hear their reasons. And it's not really hurting anything.)

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Emails are html, a lot of things under the hood are similar, they don't have to reinvent the wheel if they start from a browser. Mailspring (mentioned in the thread) and afaik the new outlook (not outlook classic) are electron apps, so they are just a chromium windows.