

The Thunderbird team will commit financial and development resources to improve K-9 Mail. In 2018, cketti and I started talking about how to collaborate, and that conversation evolved into how to create a great, seamless email experience across platforms that was open source and had our projects’ shared values at its heart. Ryan Lee Sipes, Thunderbird Product Manager, mentions: Instead, the K-9 Mail app will be used as Thunderbird’s email client. So, yes, Mozilla is not making a new Android app. Its project maintainer Christian Ketterer has joined the Thunderbird staff to utilize his expertise and experience with mobile platforms. K-9 Mail is an open-source Android email client available on the Google Play Store. Surprisingly, it is already available to install… K-9 Mail is joining the Mozilla Thunderbird project To spice it up, Mozilla decided to make an Android email client for Thunderbird. With its upcoming Thunderbird 102 update, things should get really exciting! In fact, one of the best email clients for Linux.

The UI has since been refined based on user feedback.Mozilla’s Thunderbird is a fantastic open-source email client. A first version finally shipped with K-9 Mail v6.505 (beta) at the start of February. cketti’s decision to take a more holistic approach sent us on a months-long journey redesigning this screen in close cooperation with the Thunderbird design team. In July 2022 ByteHamster proposed a change to the message view header. What We’ve Been Working On Message view redesign He is working full-time on K-9 Mail development. New Full-Time Developer 🎉Īs already announced on Mastodon, in February Wolf Montwé joined the team. If you want to learn more, check out the Android roadmap, this blog post, and this FAQ. If you missed the exciting news last summer, K-9 Mail is now part of the Thunderbird family, and we’re working steadily on transforming it into Thunderbird for Android. So we’re trying something new and summarizing the most notable things that happened in the past month as we head down the road to Thunderbird for Android. While K-9 Mail is developed in the open, following its development on GitHub can be somewhat tedious for a casual observer.
