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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-android

#Features

  • Thunderbird for Android branding is now available

  • Material 3 Navigation drawer

  • Updated color scheme

  • Allow migrating settings directly from an existing K-9 or Thunderbird for Android install

  • Make use of Glean SDK

  • Add basic feature setup for funding via Google Play subscriptions (we’ll use this for financial contributions)

  • Use […] for outer subject when encrypting the subject

  • Remove “Move/copy destination folders” setting

  • Remove “Folders to search” setting

  • Remove folder push class to simplify folder notifications

    • Virkkunen
      9•10 hours ago

      And here I thought K9’s design looked a decade outdated already

      • 2xsaiko
        4•9 hours ago

        What do you mean? This is perfectly modern. Material UI and minimal, outline style icon theme. That’s all the rage with web devs nowadays. Amazing.

        (Not that there’s anything wrong with that in this case, that’s the Android style after all. But personally I heavily dislike Material UI.)

        I would say that this UI is ugly though. Spacing is all over the place, the icons don’t look cohesive at all apart from the colors used (for example, rounded vs sharp corners), the yellowed paper looking background color, overuse of bold/italic/colored text (especially multiple of those at the same time), inconsistent display of the same thing (in one screenshot the mailbox name is displayed as “Gmail”, in the other as “[Gmail]”). And so on.

        But that doesn’t mean it’s “outdated”, this would have been equally as bad 10 years ago.

        (I just have a knee jerk reaction to people saying “outdated UI” because usually it’s used as a justification to replacing perfectly well designed UI with a worse version just so that it follows contemporary design trends. Cf the Windows Settings app.)

        • merde alors
          1•4 hours ago

          it’s fully customizable. After some tweaking you can get it to be more minimal and clean than K9 or any other client

        • @[email protected]
          3•7 hours ago

          Busy is fine. It is just really poorly laid out in a ton of ways.

          Despite that, still my manl mail client on phone.

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 hours ago

        The menus are definitely busy and confusing (there are many options), but once it’s set up I’ve never been bothered by the UI. I quite like how emails are shown OOTB in fact, with the right padding and day separation; I also use most buttons that are offered by default. So yeah, sane defaults.

        Off the top of my head what I like:

        • you can search emails on the server! That’s the one feature I couldn’t forgo
        • it detects unsubscribe links
        • I remember having delays when using K9, with FairEmail not once. This could be fixed now
        • it cleverly shows you’re connected to a VPN (which can be a problem with emails)
        • maybe too many options, but a lot are actually useful

        Not trying to say it’s better, to each their own. But it’s great.

        edit: I received an email at 06:19 in fairemail. it’s now 06:56 and I just received it in thunderbird