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Can someone explain how to get push email to work? Mine will only fetch on a set interval, 15 minutes is the shortest option. Is it because I’m using a Gmail address?
On K-9 Mail, it’s in Settings -> {Account} -> Fetching Mail -> Push Folders
On Thunderbird Beta, the “Push Folders” option should be in the same place, but it is totally missing for me.
I have been using it and really enjoy it. I was using Nine and couldn’t stand the way it handled folders and incoming mail.
Better experience in my opinion.
I am crossing my fingers that Mozilla doesn’t completely break K-9 mail by forcing Thunderbird before feature parity, it’s my favourite mobile mail client. I love using the volume keys to quickly scroll through inbox messages and mark them as read. (Other clients don’t seem to mark read unless you stare at a message for 3 seconds)
I believe Thunderbird is K9’s current beta, rebranded.
I think Thunderbird has feature party with K9 though, at least from my quick comparison. Seems that this is just a rebranding and UI update to Material 3 (a welcome one), but they intent to develop and maintain both apps for the time being.
I think K9 is also moving to Material 3 (there’s an identically versioned K9 Beta, I haven’t tested it though).
The only changes to my knowledge for Thunderbird is branding and colors.
Thunderbird team has been developing K9 for years now. This step is a small iteration from a technical point, but significant in that they feel it is stable and complete enough to put their name on.
Thunderbird is technically part of Mozilla but as far as I can tell, they are funded and operate pretty much independently from the browser and other parts of the org.
Partly solved my complex with foss mail clients being ugly designed
Is there any difference, currently? Aside from the logo, I can’t see anything different from K-9 Mail.
One of the biggest draws is the ability to transfer from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android
I literally just tried that, and it failed. LOL. Ended up setting up the account manually.
It is identical. They’ve said that they will continue to release them in parallel with different branding. This has to do with users’ preferences, but also with certain downstream things like network trust and store requirements.
I think material you?
More ambition, lol. The K9 Mail app now has backing by Mozilla
You have to export your settings from k9 and then import that file. Direct import didn’t work for me as well.
I think some colors differ slightly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah I had to export it manually from K9 then it worked perfect
Does it have nature owa support?
The answer is no, unfortunately.
OWA is also an email client. How would a client support a client? A proprietary and web-based one at that.
No, it’s a protocol from Microsoft. It’s not free unfortunately. Android email clients like Gmail (yes, confusing) or Apple’s client support it. It’s important for work… I have to pay for a plugin to receive work email to thunderbird on Linux.
OWA?
Outlook Web App
