It has no direct relationship with Mozilla proper. The project is mostly independent both in scope and funding. So, Mozilla proper doesn’t give any craps about Thunderbird. Then, in 2020 Thunderbird moved from Mozilla Foundation to MZLA Technologies Corp in part due to strong independent support from the Thunderbird community allow the project to become more independent and move past the umbrella that is the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird’s financial sponsor/manager is Mozilla Foundation - the product itself is open source). Back in 2017 Thunderbird moved off of the Mozilla Corporation umbrella of products to the Mozilla Foundation (e.g. Thunderbird has such a wonderfully complicated relationship with Mozilla. Plus, it lets the community help shape the transition of K-9 Mail into a fully-featured mobile Thunderbird experience, the Thunderbird team announced today.īefore K-9 Mail gets rebranded to Thunderbird on Android, the team still needs to “reach certain development milestones that will bring K-9 Mail into alignment with Thunderbird’s feature set and visual appearance.” The roadmap currently includes adding support for account auto-configuration, improved folder management, support for message filters, and synchronization between the mobile app and Thunderbird on the desktop. This move allows Thunderbird users to have a powerful, privacy-respecting email experience today on Android. “Thunderbird users have long been asking for Thunderbird on their Android and iOS devices. Because the app already supports power user features with a shared focus on privacy and open standards, Mozilla acknowledged that taking over the K-9 Mail open source project was the easiest way to bring Thunderbird to Android. The app has a Gmail-like interface and supports every email provider with push IMAP support and unified inboxes. K-9 Mail is a quite popular email client on Android with over 5 million downloads on the Play Store. Christian Ketterer, the developer and maintainer of K-9 Mail has joined the Thunderbird team and will work on transforming the app into the Android version of Thunderbird. Mozilla revealed today that the open-source Android email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird on Android.
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