
Throughout the following few years, the conversation evolved into how to create an awesome, seamless email experience across platforms.īut Ryan and cketti both agreed that the final product had to reflect the shared values of both projects. “Ultimately,” Sipes says, “it made sense to work together instead of developing a mobile client from scratch.” K-9 Mail Joins The Thunderbird Family It had to be open source, respect the user, and be a perfect fit for power users who crave customization and a rich feature set. To that end, we’re thrilled to announce that today, K-9 Mail officially joins the Thunderbird family.

And cketti has already joined the full-time Thunderbird staff, bringing along his valuable expertise and experience with mobile platforms. Ultimately, K-9 Mail will transform into Thunderbird on Android. That means the name itself will change and adopt Thunderbird branding. Before that happens, we need to reach certain development milestones that will bring K-9 Mail into alignment with Thunderbird’s feature set and visual appearance. To accomplish that, we’ll devote finances and development time to continually improving K-9 Mail.

We’ll be adding brand new features and introducing quality-of-life enhancements. Here’s a glimpse into our features roadmap: If you want to help us improve and expand K-9 Mail faster, please consider donating at K-9 Mail and Thunderbird are both community-funded projects.

Syncing between desktop and mobile Thunderbird.Account setup using Thunderbird account auto-configuration. “In other words, K-9 Mail will soar to greater heights with the help of Thunderbird.” Thunderbird On Android: Join The Journey “Joining the Thunderbird family allows K-9 Mail to become more sustainable and gives us the resources to implement long-requested features and fixes that our users want,” cketti says. Thunderbird users have long been asking for Thunderbird on their Android and iOS devices.
