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Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app (blog.thunderbird.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!

Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!

The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:

September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android

Third week of October – first release candidate

Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On 13 June 2022, it was announced that K-9 Mail had been taken over by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation with current maintainer Christian Ketterer joining the team, and plans for K-9 Mail to be rebranded as Thunderbird for Android following the completion of a feature roadmap, including sync with Thunderbird on PC, integrating Thunderbird's automated account setup system, message filtering, and improvements to folders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_Mail

Bit of a, bit of b. It is not yet. But the final version of Thunderbird will replace K9. So if you're not happy with the beta, write an issue in their bug tracker.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No that will not work, users already opened an issue and asked to remove the spyware and Mozilla closed it:

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/8199

Mozilla has gone full evil already, they took the only full featured, completely privacy respecting email app on the platform and killed it and they did it sneakily as well just like they did with PPA on firefox.

Luckily K9 in its existing version is fully functional. Users who care about privacy can continue to use K9.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An old version or a fork though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes that is what we are left with.

Mozilla bought k9 and killed it, sad day for users.