TIL that this is the successor of K9.
Awesome news! I hope.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
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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.
I don't believe K-9 is going anywhere. They will be about the same code base
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.~~ My bad, still kept the k9-mail repo instead of the thunderbird fork.
Weird, for me adding the url and checking 'Include prereleases' was enough
It has a new id so you will need to add it as a new app if you have K-9 installed
Actually, you were right. The issue for me is that the original k9-mail repo did also released the current beta thunderbird version (and i think, one with still the k9 branding if needed). I was trying to switch to it via that repo, and didn't noticed the thunderbird fork listed the in the repo. There's no changes, outside of the releases only being thunderbird branded outside of all the previous k9-mail ones. If you were on k-9 mail, and want to switch to it on Obtainium, manually install the new version and mugrate your settings to it. And once it's all done, remove the k9-mail repo from Obtainium, and add that thunderbird one.
It should be on F-droid at some point
For anybody having trouble with K-9 Mail and Thunderbird being in the same Release section, add this to Filter APKs by Regular Expression:
To get only Thunderbird Updates: ^thunderbird-.*.apk$
To get only K-9 Mail Updates: ^k9-.*.apk$
Ugh they didn't keep the same oauth flow so I have to get IT to approve it again for Outlook
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.
Yup, should be the same release, just using a different token and therefore needs approved separately
Is the 'Thunderbird for Android 8.0b1 (beta)' release available through F-Droid?
I don't see it on F-Droid or Izzy's repositories yet.
Obtainium (Get android app updates directly from the source) https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/
is handy for cases like these
Thanks. I prefer to use a package manager and have some vetting done before installing anything.
It installs the packages directly from the respective github repos
Or you mean vetting the apps themselves and not the packages?
I'm not in a rush to test releases I can't get through the main F-Droid repo, that's all. I think the only app I have a extra repo added for is NewPipe. I just prefer to wait for the F-Droid team to vet releases just like I prefer to grab things through package manager of whatever Linux distro I'm working in.
It should be about the same as K-9
Does anybody use Titan Mail and have an opinion of how this compares?
hopefully they eventually add support for email contacts (not handled through Android contacts) for autocomplete.