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K9-Mail becoming Thunderbird (blog.thunderbird.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Open-source Android email app K-9 Mail has joined forces with the Thunderbird project, signaling the beginning of a long-term vision to deliver an outstanding Thunderbird mobile experience.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I really hope this ends well. The K9 dev has always been looking for funding so a full-time job working on K9 must be great. I really don't care about the name change but hopefully this lets it move quickly.

I like K9 but some things are fairly awkward IMHO. Even just reading a few messages in a row is a lot of clicks. I would love some swipe gestures (there is a PR in progress for this IIUC). I also find the Tier 1/Tier 2 folders very complicated. It is both too limiting (I have more than 3 types of folder) and unnecessarily complex. I would love if we could get some more control here.

But overall it is a good client, so I'm hoping this works well.

I also use Thunderbird on desktop and recent improvements have been very good. I'm hoping that it keeps improving as well.