Hello Thunderbird Community! I’m Toby Pilling, a new team member and I’ve spent the last couple of months getting up to speed, and have really enjoyed meeting the team and members of the community virtually, and some in person! September is now over (and so is the summer for many in our team), and we’re […]

We’re back for an update on Thunderbird for Android/K-9 Mail, combining progress reports for July and August. Did you miss our June update? Check it out! The focus over these two months has been on quality over quantity—behind each improvement is significant groundwork that reduces our technical debt and makes future feature work easier to […]

A new mobile team member. more progress on Material 3 and Android 14, and behind-the-scenes work to enable a smoother transition to Thunderbird for Android. Welcome to the June 2024 progress report.

Material 3 improvements, better developer documentation, and more in our May 2024 progress report for K-9 Mail / Thunderbird for Android.

Welcome to our monthly report on turning K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android! Last month you could read about how we found and fixed bugs after publishing a new stable release. This month we start with… telling you that we fixed even more bugs. Fixing bugs After the release of K-9 Mail 6.800 we dedicated […]

If you’ve been wondering how the work to turn K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android is coming along, you’ve found the right place. This blog post contains a report of our development activities in March 2024.

A new stable release, Android 14 compatibility, Material 3, and a contributor spotlight in today’s K-9 Mail / Thunderbird for Android update.

We’re happy to announce the release of K-9 Mail 6.800. The main goal of this version is to make it easier for you to add your email accounts to the app with Thunderbird’s autoconfig mechanism. With another item crossed off the list, this brings us one step closer towards Thunderbird for Android!

A new year, a new progress report! Learn what we did in January on our journey to transform K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android. If you’re new here or you forgot where we left off last year, check out the previous progress report. Account setup In January most of our work went into polishing the […]

When will Thunderbird for Android be released? This is a question that comes up quite a lot, and we appreciate that you’re all excited to finally put Thunderbird in your pocket. It’s not a simple answer, but we’ll do our best to explain why things are taking longer than expected. We have always been a […]

A big Android progress report to carry us into 2024, including some awesome community contributions, Android 14, user experience improvements, improved account setup, and more!

Dear translators, thank you for all the work you’re putting into making K-9 Mail — and eventually Thunderbird for Android — more accessible by translating it to so many languages ❤️

WHY was Thunderbird 115 called “Supernova?” What caused the press to declare Thunderbird dead back in 2012? And how did we turn the ship around? Ryan answers these questions and much more in his personal recollection of Thunderbird’s history.

More improvements to account setup, purging old code, OAuth 2.0 fixes for Yahoo and AOL, and more in our monthly Thunderbird for Android update.

During August 2023, we managed to reach a significant Thunderbird for Android milestone: the beta release of our new account setup interface!