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Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!

Help Us Test!

Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!

The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:

Download the Beta Image

Below are the options for where you can download with Beta and get started:

We are still working on preparing F-Droid builds. In the meanwhile, please make use of the other two download mechanisms.

Use the Testing Checklist

Once you’ve downloaded the Thunderbird for Android beta, we’d like you to check that you can do the following:

Test the K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android Transfer

If you’re already using K-9 Mail, you can help test an important feature: transferring your data from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android. To do this, you’ll need to make sure you’ve upgraded to the latest beta version of K-9 Mail.

This transfer process is a key step in making it easier for K-9 Mail users to move over to Thunderbird. Testing this will help ensure a smooth and reliable experience for future users making the switch.

Later builds will additionally include a way to transfer your information from Thunderbird Desktop to Thunderbird for Android.

What we’re not testing

We know it’s tempting to comment about everything you notice in the beta. For the purpose of this short initial beta, we won’t be focusing on addressing longstanding issues. Instead, we ask you to be laser focused on critical bugs, the checklist above, and issues could prevent users from effectively interacting with the app, to help us deliver a great initial release.

Where to Give Feedback

Share your feedback on the Thunderbird for Android beta mailing list and see the feedback of other users. It’s easy to sign up and let us know what worked and more importantly, what didn’t work from the tasks above. For bug reports, please provide as much detail as possible including steps to reproduce the issue, your device model and OS version, and any relevant screenshots or error messages.

Want to chat with other community members, including other testers and contributors working on Thunderbird for Android? Join us on Matrix!

Do you have ideas you would like to see in future versions of Thunderbird for Android? Let us know on Mozilla Connect, our official site to submit and upvote ideas.

13 responses

Brian wrote on

Let’s GOOOO! Testing now, love the icon and the AMOLED black/blue theme!

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Roland Müller wrote on

Konto anlegen funktioniert
Konten über App K 9-mail importieren funktioniert nicht

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Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Do you have the newest K-9 Beta? The transfer needs to be from the K-9 Beta to the Thunderbird Beta.

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Brian wrote on

Everything is working fine so far. Like many others on the mailing list the K9 import didn’t work. No problems elsewhere. Settings location is a little unintuitive but I found it eventually.

Really hoping for an icon that has AMOLED black icon circle instead of the new white one. Or the ability to choose between them?

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victorhck wrote on

Hello!
Spreading the news in spanish in my little blog:

https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2024/10/01/ya-puedes-probar-la-version-beta-del-cliente-de-correo-thunderbird-para-android/

As a K9 and Thunderbird Desktop user I really wans to say thank you for your work!!!

Greetings!

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Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Thank you again for spreading the news in Spanish! We really appreciate it – and we hope you have a great time with Thunderbird for Android!

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OhWeh wrote on

After the first two days: it works without problems.
Only missing the OAuth2 authentication so I can integrate also my 3rd account.

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Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Thanks so much for trying it!

Are you using POP or IMAP for the 3rd account?

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Juan wrote on

is it a trialware? show up a google play subscription.

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Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Hi! Thunderbird for Android, just like Thunderbird, is free as in code and in cost, and is 100% driven by donations. Since the Google Play Store won’t let us link to our donation site, this will just be abother way mobile users can donate if they choose to do so! https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/android-beta/T49eeb401813e04a9/trackers

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Stefan Krenn wrote on

So far everything is working well and it looks good too! However, I had to export the settings from K9 because the automatic import didn’t work and the beta was up to date as far as I know.

I still hope that the archive function will be implemented accordingly. Are there any plans for this?

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Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Thanks for trying the beta! The feedback on any hiccups, like the K-9 Mail settings import (did you do this from the linked K-9 beta?), will help the final release be the best it can be.

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