Of course, with the app being fully open-source, you can check out how things are going in K-9 Mail's GitHub repository. It'll undergo a lot of changes before it actually becomes Thunderbird, and the development team is going to need help and testing over that process. If you want to help shape the future of Thunderbird on mobile, the team encourages you to install K-9 Mail on your Android phone now. Down the road, once certain development goals have been met in terms of looks and features (like synchronization between mobile and desktop, Thunderbird account auto-configuration, and support for message filters), K-9 Mail will be rebranded as Thunderbird. To make for a smooth transition, K-9 Mail's project maintainer, Christian Ketterer (also known as cketti) is joining the Thunderbird staff.
This means that Thunderbird will essentially be built upon the tried-and-true K-9 app that many open-source evangelists are already familiar with. Now, their paths cross after the K-9 Mail development team announced that they are joining the Mozilla Thunderbird project to turn the app into the first mobile version of Thunderbird.Mozilla has obtained the trademark rights and source code of K-9 Mail, including its GitHub repo. The difference is that Thunderbird has been ignoring mobile for decades, while K-9 Mail was launched as one of the first third-party mail clients for Android. That’s a combined 31 years of experience with mail clients. Mozilla Thunderbird was released in 2004, while K-9 Mail followed five years later, in 2009.
What do Mozilla Thunderbird and K-9 Mail have in common? In addition to both being open source email applications, they are both tremendously long-lived applications. Thunderbird for Android will be the K-9 of the future Little did we know about Thunderbird for mobiles, its appearance or possible functions, until now, when the plan of the application to make the leap to mobiles has been announced: will be based on the veteran K-9 Mail appan open source email client with over 5 million downloads on Google Play and now owned by Mozilla. Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most popular mail clientsavailable for download on Windows, Mac and Linux, although last month we were surprised that a mobile version was on the way, and soon.
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