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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)

33 mentions on Hacker News by 30 people: 3 stories, 30 comments · first 2013-12-23 · latest 2025-01-23

Mentions per year 33 mentions · busiest year 2022 (10)
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  1. …in the future) They decided not to rebrand but instead to publish two versions of the same app. See https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android for details The Thunderbird download is: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.thunderbird.…
    comment by philipwhiuk · 2025-01-23 · in F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
  2. …list makes mail management a right pain. It's also one of the oldest request on the github https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/63...
    comment by dugite-code · 2024-10-30 · in Thunderbird for Android Now Available
  3. …it for the moment. [..]Temporarily removed telemetry while we improve user choice[..] from https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/releases/... Seems this is the issue where it's debated: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbir…
  4. …configurable, but it isn't shining when it comes to design, at least the last time I checked. [0] https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/34...
  5. https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/milestone... On the radar yes, but very low. That's the biggest point for me, native label support for thunderbird, thunderbird mobile/k9 and fairemail. I must admit I don't care about…
  6. …to be terribly misunderstood at this point, unfortunately the issue on github is currently locked https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/93...
    comment by dugite-code · 2024-05-17 · in Thunderbird.net Has a New Look
  7. …1: https://blog.thunderbird.net/category/thunderbird-mobile/ 2: https://github.com/thundernest/k-9/pulse
    comment by techwizrd · 2023-10-24 · in Thunderbird 115.4.0
  8. Would JMAP not be a better focus both in general, and to attract those same users? https://github.com/thundernest/k-9/issues/3272
  9. …3rd party apps to log into your mail account using usernames and passwords on May 30, 2022. https://github.com/thundernest/k-9/issues/6020 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
    comment by matt_heimer · 2022-06-14 · in Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
  10. Yes; this work was started even before the latest FairEmail kerfluffle, and is slated for K-9 6.200. https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655#issuecomment-113165...
    comment by forbiddenlake · 2022-06-13 · in Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
  11. Add support for Gmail's XOAUTH2 #655 gsborisgithub opened this issue on 23 May 2015 Fixed by #6082 https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655 K9mail is a android mail client
  12. …authentication over IMAP/SMTP yet [0], which is increasingly widely required by mail services. [0] https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655
  13. Formatted and clickable links for convenience: [0] https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655#issuecomment-113164... [1] https://email.faircode.eu/ [2] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263863…
  14. …to chime in during any of the betas and then everyone started to complain when it got to stable. https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/graphs/contributors
    comment by SylvieLorxu · 2022-04-22 · in K-9 Mail 6.000
  15. K-9 has been using 3 digits to the right of the decimal for over 12 years. https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/tags?after=2.107
    comment by ancientsofmumu · 2022-04-21 · in K-9 Mail 6.000
  16. Seems the bug will be prioritized? https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/3868
    comment by e12e · 2021-07-25 · in K-9 Mail is back
  17. Here it is: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/857 The issue is even older than I thought, though I was pretty sure the requirement for a notification specifically appeared around Android 8 or 9. Also, seeing as K9 doesn't look to be…
  18. …is not the latest. The version is also split on GitHub[1] and I can only guess why. [1]: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9
    comment by antibuddy · 2021-02-14 · in K-9 Mail is looking for funding
  19. …crippled because the original author dislikes them and apparently wants to push encryption (eg, https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/2375 ), ignoring everyone who points out that this feature may be important or required by policy for…
    comment by cge · 2021-02-14 · in K-9 Mail is looking for funding
  20. …in the blog post are the bits missing to release that as a stable version (IMAP IDLE mostly): https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases I've been running the betas since more than a year without any problems whatsoever. (If you don't need…
    comment by BubuIIC · 2021-02-14 · in K-9 Mail is looking for funding
  21. …wise the last two years, but it is not dead: https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail https://github.com/k9mail/k-9
    comment by secabeen · 2020-12-16 · in Firefox Was Always Enough
  22. …SMTP. One of the more popular open source Android mail clients, K-9 mail, still doesn't support it: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655 But the biggest issue is that, like the "unknown sources" checkbox in Android, Google uses scare…
  23. Looks alive to me https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases , F-Droid has the most recent pre-release from last week.
    comment by jdofaz · 2019-12-11 · in Google bans niche browsers from Gmail?
  24. …know about throttling, but later Android versions are known to mess with email notifications. See: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/3950
    comment by Felz · 2019-08-17 · in Making email more modern with JMAP
  25. This appears to be still an open issue. https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/2060
    comment by didsomeonesay · 2018-05-04 · in De-Googling my phone
  26. …doesn't nest reply threads[1] which is must have feature for me. Otherwise yes k9mail is good. [1] https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/763
    comment by limeblack · 2018-03-24 · in Thunderbird 52.7.0 released
  27. …issue on K9 to add support for the same format, but it's been open and stagnant for years[0] [0] https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/865
    comment by JankySolutions · 2018-02-09 · in What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
  28. A big problem with K-9 (and open-source clients in general), is detailed in this thread: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655 Unfortunately, this is not so much a problem with the quality of the client, but rather with the…
    comment by lucideer · 2018-02-09 · in What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
  29. Small Update: You can get the latest K9 Alpha from here: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/releases/tag/4.904 ..and should use OpenKeyChain instead of APG, since its no longer maintained. http://openkeychain.org/ (also available on F-Droid)…
  30. k9mail seems to fit the bill for what you want: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/wiki/What-is-K-9-Mail