The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!
Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!
The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:
- September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android
- Third week of October – first release candidate
- Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release
Been using K-9 for a time and tried Thunderbird - it feels kind of smoother and there are some visual overhauls but ended uninstalling it because it was hard for me to tell which mails were unread (and which ones not) in the main mail list while in dark mode. I guess I’m not the only one who felt that way and surely they will fix it but this also left me the sensation that there’s not much sense in switching to Thunderbird if you’re using K-9.
K9 is Thunderbird. You’ll be switching if you like it or not. If you want, write a bug report on the visibility issue.
K9 is not Thunderbird. There is a critical difference.
K9 is a private respecting app which contains no malicious user tracking telemetry, this app does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_Mail
Bit of a, bit of b. It is not yet. But the final version of Thunderbird will replace K9. So if you’re not happy with the beta, write an issue in their bug tracker.
No that will not work, users already opened an issue and asked to remove the spyware and Mozilla closed it:
https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/8199
Mozilla has gone full evil already, they took the only full featured, completely privacy respecting email app on the platform and killed it and they did it sneakily as well just like they did with PPA on firefox.
Luckily K9 in its existing version is fully functional. Users who care about privacy can continue to use K9.
An old version or a fork though
Yes that is what we are left with.
Mozilla bought k9 and killed it, sad day for users.
Seems you didn’t even read my comment - but no, at least for the moment K-9 is not Thunderbird…
K9 has been Thunderbird for quite a while now. The name hasn’t changed yet officially, but the team has been incorporated a good while ago.
Not sure why people are downvoting you, you’re right.
Here’s the announcement from over 2 years ago.
They are the same. It is the same app. They have announced that they will keep both K9 and Thunderbird in parallel, but the underlying program is the same - it will be only a cosmetic difference. This has to do with app IDs and user preferences, etc.
Here is the K9 Beta that is the same version as the new Thunderbird (beta) app. You are just switching from the beta back to the release.
Edit: sorry link was missing: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/releases/tag/K9MAIL_8_0b1