K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

by jlelse on 6/13/2022, 2:33:26 PM with 16 comments

  • by merricksb on 6/13/2022, 3:01:47 PM

    Mozilla's version of the story already on the front page for > 2 hours:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31725103

  • by tiffanyh on 6/13/2022, 2:56:06 PM

    Don't think this means Mozilla is now putting resources to develop K-9.

    Mozilla halted development of Thunderbird 10 years ago (2012) and it has been community run ever since.

    https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/6/3142046/mozilla-halt-furth...

  • by nimbius on 6/13/2022, 2:51:18 PM

    after some thought on this i guess im optimistic. Thunderbird always seemed to avoid the more hair-brained crap stuffed into Firefox to turn a profit like voice chat.

    Thunderbird on the desktop is over 200mb these days, so it will be interesting to see if k9 can avoid turning into a chungus on my phone.

  • by sneak on 6/13/2022, 2:58:55 PM

    Thunderbird on desktop is unusable for me on privacy grounds; it phones home in the same manner as Firefox.

    I hope this behavior does not infect K-9 Mail.

  • by 3np on 6/13/2022, 2:51:58 PM

    So there's Thunderbird for desktop Linux and K-9 Mail for mobile Android. I'd love to see mobile Linux somewhere on the roadmap here.

    Right now there's Geary, which is OK for what it is but quite limited and basic. I imagine that either mobile-friendly UI for Thunderbird and Linux non-Android K-9 would be quite serious efforts, though.

  • by yubiox on 6/13/2022, 2:51:12 PM

    Not that you would, but please don't ruin it.