https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/ Logo * Announcements * Add-ons * Releases Download Thunderbird Donate [ ] Search * Announcements * Add-ons * Releases Download Thunderbird Donate featured post title image * Announcements * Thunderbird Revealed: Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android June 13, 2022 Jason Evangelho 15 responses For years, we've wanted to extend Thunderbird beyond the desktop, and the path to delivering a great Thunderbird on Android(tm) experience started in 2018. That's when Thunderbird Product Manager Ryan Lee Sipes first met up with Christian Ketterer (aka "cketti"), the project maintainer for open-source Android email client K-9 Mail. The two instantly wanted to find a way for the two projects to collaborate. Throughout the following few years, the conversation evolved into how to create an awesome, seamless email experience across platforms. But Ryan and cketti both agreed that the final product had to reflect the shared values of both projects. It had to be open source, respect the user, and be a perfect fit for power users who crave customization and a rich feature set. "Ultimately," Sipes says, "it made sense to work together instead of developing a mobile client from scratch." K-9 Mail Joins The Thunderbird Family To that end, we're thrilled to announce that today, K-9 Mail officially joins the Thunderbird family. And cketti has already joined the full-time Thunderbird staff, bringing along his valuable expertise and experience with mobile platforms. Ultimately, K-9 Mail will transform into Thunderbird on Android. That means the name itself will change and adopt Thunderbird branding. Before that happens, we need to reach certain development milestones that will bring K-9 Mail into alignment with Thunderbird's feature set and visual appearance. To accomplish that, we'll devote finances and development time to continually improving K-9 Mail. We'll be adding brand new features and introducing quality-of-life enhancements. K-9 Mail and Thunderbird are both community-funded projects. If you want to help us improve and expand K-9 Mail faster, please consider donating at https://mzla.link/k9-give Here's a glimpse into our features roadmap: * Account setup using Thunderbird account auto-configuration. * Improved folder management. * Support for message filters. * Syncing between desktop and mobile Thunderbird. "Joining the Thunderbird family allows K-9 Mail to become more sustainable and gives us the resources to implement long-requested features and fixes that our users want," cketti says. "In other words, K-9 Mail will soar to greater heights with the help of Thunderbird." Thunderbird On Android: Join The Journey Thunderbird users have long been asking for Thunderbird on their Android and iOS devices. This move allows Thunderbird users to have a powerful, privacy-respecting email experience today on Android. Plus, it lets the community help shape the transition of K-9 Mail into a fully-featured mobile Thunderbird experience. This is only the beginning, but it's a very exciting first step. Want to talk directly with the Thunderbird team about it? Join us for a Twitter Spaces chat (via @MozThunderbird) on Wednesday, June 15 at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 7pm CEST). I'll be there alongside cketti and Ryan to answer your questions, and discuss the future of Thunderbird on mobile devices. Additional Links And Resources * Public discussion and planning forum * Donate to Thunderbird and K-9 Mail * K-9 Mail on Google Play * K-9 Mail on F-Droid FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail We've published a separate FAQ here, addressing many of the community's questions and concerns. Check back there from time to time, as we plan to update the FAQ as this collaboration progresses. Thunderbird is the leading open-source, cross-platform email and calendaring client, free for business and personal use. We want it to stay secure and become even better. A donation will allow us to hire more developers, pay for infrastructure, expand our userbase, and continue to improve. Click here to make a donation. Tags: Android K-9 Mail open source Thunderbird 15 responses [4489ae58] Stephan wrote on June 13, 2022 at 15:41 That awesome! I use Thunderbird on my Linux desktop and K9 on mobile. Perfekt match. I find K9 has way too many settings and options. It could be easier to use. Also easy backups and syncing would be great to have. Reply Open source android email client K-9 Mail to become Thunderbird on Android - Liliputing wrote on June 13, 2022 at 15:57 [...] A month after announcing plans to launch a mobile version of the the open source Thunderbird email client, the folks at Thunderbird have explained how they plan to do that. [...] Reply Thunderbird und K-9 Mail gehen zusammen - LinuxNews wrote on June 13, 2022 at 16:40 [...] wurden dann im Thunderbird-Blog nahere Einzelheiten bekannt. Demnach gehen Thunderbird und der bekannte Android-E-Mail-Client K9 [...] Reply [59765af8] MMeinesz wrote on June 13, 2022 at 16:51 Great move, people. Happy to help you financially, we will happily sponsor you. Overall it's good to see some "merging" in FOSS, there seems to be too much "branching" going on. Reply [0c477a7d] Jason Evangelho wrote on June 13, 2022 at 16:58 Thank you for your feedback, and we agree. Why spend more of the money you donate to build a client from scratch, when we can take an established open-source app and bring the developer's expertise along for the ride? We're looking forward to taking this all to the next level! Reply [ec0066ad] Nicolas wrote on June 13, 2022 at 17:09 I use k9 on android for a few years. I hope transition to this thunderbird will be smooth ! Reply [0c477a7d] Jason Evangelho wrote on June 13, 2022 at 17:31 We will do nothing short of our best. Reply [111337d1] Lukasz wrote on June 13, 2022 at 17:11 I love this news! Reply [63371d36] Luna bittin Jernberg wrote on June 13, 2022 at 17:54 Installed K-9 Mail and setup it with Gmail on my Android phone today to help out and try it out also will help out with Swedish translation for the Android version too Reply [f05bfe54] Micke wrote on June 13, 2022 at 18:15 I am a finacial supporter, and long time user, of K-9, and I hope this move will be benificial for both projects, eventually merging into one. I used thunderbird as well for a long time, but felt that it had slowed down and threatened to fall behind in the last couple of years. I have been very happy to see thunderbird pick up pace again, and I will definatly give it a go again, as the alternatives will be left in the dust once again Reply [617f7b32] Dave D. wrote on June 13, 2022 at 18:29 I smiled as soon as I saw the graphic at the top of the post. K-9 Mail is already an outstanding app, and it will only benefit from the colaboration. Reply [97643356] Doktor Snake wrote on June 13, 2022 at 18:43 Overjoyed at this! I've used Thunderbird from the very beginning. Still do. You just can't beat it. I have also used K-9, on and off, on my phone... mostly just used the Fastmail app, though. Really this is a glorious day, bringing the honorable open source ethos to Android... the more of that the better. I'll be installing it. Reply [9b06ff40] Ian wrote on June 13, 2022 at 18:47 My favourite desktop e-mail client and my favourite mobile client joining forces! I wish you all the best, and hope this helps both teams spend more time creating features and fighting bugs and less time re-inventing the wheel. Reply [265b79fd] Pontus wrote on June 13, 2022 at 18:57 Thunderbird and K9 is already what Im using. Really hope there'll be some good way of syncing your settings so I dont have to set up filters again. That process is not super smooth on desktop even, so it feels like it might be a challenge. Either way it's exciting news! I've been using email less and less because of all the spam, but Thunderbird makes it usable again thanks to powerful filtering. I'm looking forward to seeing that on mobile as well. I'll take the opportunity to mention a feature request. Would be great with an easy way to copy all the text content of an email to paste it into a note. Reply [5de4ed34] Ryan Sipes wrote on June 13, 2022 at 19:27 Great feature request idea! Convert to note is a feature I want to! So it'll probably happen. Ryan, Product Manager for Thunderbird. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Comment * [ ] Name * [ ] Email * [ ] Website [ ] [ ] Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Post Comment [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] D[ ] Logo ---------------------------------------------------------------------