As per ZDNet, this means that K-9 will be in charge of taking the name and branding of the original service.īefore this becomes possible, K-9 will still have to align with the visual appearance and feature set of Thunderbird. K-9 is tasked with supplementing the open-sourced service and improving the email experience for mobile users.Īs per the Thunderbird team, their commitment toward the desktop version of the email service remains the same, and the team is committed to making the most out of both worlds. The team then announced that they plan to do this by helping K-9 provide an Android version of the Thunderbird email open-source service. Read Also: Telegram Founder Takes a Swipe on Apple's iOS Limitations! Here's What He Says K-9 Mail is in Charge of Implementing the Email Experience for Mobile Users As per Thunderbird, a lot of users have asked them for a mobile experience for the open-sourced email service. Instead of building the app from scratch, both parties plan on merging Thunderbird's systems and features with the existing app.įour years later, the best decision, according to the two, was to simply have K-9 join the open-sourced service instead of having to build an app from the start. K-9 Mail is an already existing email app on the Google Play Store with five million downloads. Thunderbird to be Added to Existing K-9 Mail App The talks were held between Ryan Lee Sipes, the product manager of Thunderbird, and Christian Ketterer, K-9's lead maintainer. The email service's team revealed that talks of an email app version of the service started as far as 2018. On top of this, the project added new features, including OpenPGP end-to-end encryption along with a mobile app that ZDNet described as 'long-awaited.'

Moving Thunderbird to its subsidiary allowed the project to create its own path. Project Adds OpenPGP End-to-End Encryption and a Mobile App

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