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K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

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Re: K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

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Post by nimbius »

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.

Re: K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

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Post by 3np »

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.

Re: K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

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Post by escapecharacter »

nimbius wrote: post #4

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.

I’ve become so dejected over huge app sizes when I saw 200 mb for an email app, I thought “not bad”

Re: K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

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Post by mrrsm »

tiffanyh wrote: post #7

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...

> In turn Thunderbird will ensure the app is developed further. As a first step Thunderbird hired the current K-9 Mail maintainer, cketti (coincidentally, also the author of this blog post ). Hopefully, more will follow soon.

I mean they are putting resources toward it by hiring the main dev which is a good start.

Re: K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family

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Post by giancarlostoro »

mrrsm wrote: post #8
tiffanyh wrote: post #7

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...

> In turn Thunderbird will ensure the app is developed further. As a first step Thunderbird hired the current K-9 Mail maintainer, cketti (coincidentally, also the author of this blog post ). Hopefully, more will follow soon. I mean they are putting resources toward it by hiring the main dev which is a good start.

The highlight was about Mozilla the org not being involved. The Thunderbird org is definitely putting resources into this, not Mozilla.
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