Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta! - The Thunderbird Blog
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The wait is over! Download and learn how to help us test the Thunderbird for Android beta for the upcoming regular release.

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
  • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    21·
    23 hours ago

    K9 is Thunderbird. You’ll be switching if you like it or not. If you want, write a bug report on the visibility issue.

    • Melco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 hours ago

      K9 is not Thunderbird. There is a critical difference.

      K9 is a private respecting app which contains no malicious user tracking telemetry, this app does.

      • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        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.

        • Melco@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          27 minutes ago

          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.

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      23 hours ago

      K9 is Thunderbird

      Seems you didn’t even read my comment - but no, at least for the moment K-9 is not Thunderbird…

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        51 minutes ago

        They are the same. It is the same app. They have announced that they will keep both K9 and Thunderbird in parallel, but the underlying program is the same - it will be only a cosmetic difference. This has to do with app IDs and user preferences, etc.

        Here is the K9 Beta that is the same version as the new Thunderbird (beta) app. You are just switching from the beta back to the release.

      • RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        41·
        18 hours ago

        K9 has been Thunderbird for quite a while now. The name hasn’t changed yet officially, but the team has been incorporated a good while ago.