#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

  • LiveLM
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    7 hours ago

    Let’s fucking goooooo
    Was waiting for this to move off the Outlook app

    Also, for those wanting simple updates, check Obtainium

    • Speaking off, I’m still having issues adding it, since it still get confused by the k9 original repo origin, even if i try to filter the pre-release .apk’s with the thunderbird name.

  • Einar
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    2210 hours ago

    TIL that this is the successor of K9.

    Awesome news! I hope.

    • @gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
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      98 hours ago

      They have been the same team for the past 2 years. I think they have done a pretty good job developing new features thoughtfully and improving the user experience. One thing I’m really enjoying about this release is that they have made it much faster to toggle between accounts.

      If they are confident adding their branding, then I take it as a show of confidence in their work.

  • Nate
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    910 hours ago

    Ugh they didn’t keep the same oauth flow so I have to get IT to approve it again for Outlook

    • @gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
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      58 hours ago

      I’m not sure, but that could be connected to the name change K9➡️Thunderbird. They have said that they will maintain parallel releases of both (identical except for the name/branding) for the immediate future. This release appears to be the identical but may (or may not) solve the issue.

      • Nate
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        38 hours ago

        Yup, should be the same release, just using a different token and therefore needs approved separately

    • Virkkunen
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      1110 hours ago

      And here I thought K9’s design looked a decade outdated already

      • @InfiniWheel
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        FairEmail design looks modern. Its just ugly and way too busy

        • merde alors
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          24 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

        • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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          37 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.

      • 2xsaiko
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        58 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.)

      • @Imhotep@lemmy.world
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        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