Goodbye K-9 Mail
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Looking back on 15 years of working on K-9 Mail.
    • ikidd@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It’s a pretty popular desktop client, and the migration of K9 into Tbird for Android was a good thing.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I thought they were supposed to change it at some point but as of my last update it still has the k9 branding, is f-droid just behind?

        • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 month ago

          They’ve stuck it under its own app entry. Both K-9 and Thunderbird end at 8.2 for suggested releases.

          I just installed Thunderbird, looks identical, just a rebrand. They’re so identical the import function is seamless mostly seamless.

          Not sure if it’s a quirk of GrapheneOS or just the way things are now, but for gmail accounts, you’ll need to go in to something like Settings > Account > fetching mail > incoming server and then hit next.

          This will dump you back in to the google web login auth page, so you can approve the app for each account.

          Otherwise, the sync and alert settings are copied just fine, so it’s good enough.

  • whome@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Funny how I use TB on desktop as long as it exists and always wanted a android version and I even knew that is was in development and still this is the first time I heard that it was released. A little cross promotion wouldn’t hurt.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’ve been using it, it’s basically still K9 mail with minor changes still. It doesn’t really have the features you see in the desktop client.

      They might promote it more when it’s got the features you’d expect from a mobile client, like proper search with a local index.

    • Undaunted@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There’s Betterbird, though I don’t know exactly what makes it better, except for still allowing to manually load external content in encrypted mails, which Thunderbird just removed for whatever stupid reason.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve used K9 for over a decade, until at some point work required me to have an exchange account. At that time I switched to Nine, since outlook is hot garbage.

    • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
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      1 month ago

      Are there alternatives to Nine? I’ve used that for several years for my personal email because of exchange, but it has had issues the last couple of years. Not open source as far as I know.

  • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Still using k9mail since fairemail causes me oom issues.

    I still find myself looking for other emails tho since i need something that supports mailing list stuff better.