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Mozilla Thunderbird for Android Is Finally Here (www.howtogeek.com)
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Mozilla Thunderbird for Android is now available in beta, built upon the K-9 Mail app.

The beta includes core email features like account setup, email organization, and notifications, with feedback encouraged from users.

Thunderbird for Android will remain a separate app from K-9 Mail, requiring users to migrate if they previously used K-9.

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[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 10 points 1 hour ago

For anyone who was using K-9 wondering why Thunderbird looks no different, it's because they aren't different.

They build both apps from the exact same codebase. Only difference between the two are the default color scheme, the branding icons, and the text strings of the application's name. It's literally just a choice of which brand skin you prefer.

Which, honestly, kinda cool. A virtually zero-cost way to keep a few K-9 stans happy.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

As long as it's compliant with Thunderbird, eg. using the same autoconfig at /mail/config-v1.1.xml, I'm happy.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago

I couldn't find it on froid

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 37 minutes ago

'You can download Thunderbird Beta on the Google Play Store, or get the latest pre-release version from the Github Releases page.'

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/releases/tag/THUNDERBIRD_8_0b1

Here's the release page if you wanna grab it from github ;)

[-] scrion@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Honestly, if you're in the audience for Thunderbird on Android, you probably want to have a look at FairMail instead.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 minutes ago

I'm sure it's a very capable email client, but the UI just didn't mesh well with me.

[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 2 points 29 minutes ago

I've really tried to use it, im sorry it's just so ugly

[-] Undertaker@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

*FairEmail

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 12 points 2 hours ago

Why? What does FairMail do better? The headline says it's privacy oriented, but so is k-9.

[-] johant@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

I'd say customizability. Haven't used k-9 since I found FairEmail so can't really say anything about how it is now but it used to be pretty bare bones. At least compared to FairEmail.

[-] HeerlijkeDrop@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 hours ago

I'd love FairMail for desktop Linux

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 8 points 4 hours ago

OK, I switched. I don't know if it's a placebo because it looks identical but ut feels smoother.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

For me it definitely looks different, are you sure you have the new version...? They've updated a lot of the UI elements to material design 3, but kept all the same layout and whatnot

I really like it so far! Feels like a really welcome refresh

[-] rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtf 1 points 2 hours ago

Nice to see progress, but so far it seems indistinguishable from K-9.

The feature to import settings from K-9 doesn't work for me, possibly as a consequence of running CalyxOS.

[-] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

So excited about this! It looks and feels great.

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Anyone make the switch from Aquamail?

[-] j4yt33@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm interested in Thunderbird but I've been very happy with aquamail, so no reason to switch

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