Email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird for Android

K-9's project maintainer will join the Thunderbird team.

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[WereCatf]

This is good. I've been struggling with the fact that there's not really a good, free, trustworthy, maintained local mail client for Android.

So, I've just been logging into webmail using Chrome, for my email checking needs, but I'd rather have a POP3/IMAP client.

I thought about using K-9, but wasn't real familiar with it, and it seemed to be unmaintained, I thought.

Aquamail is maintained, and it's pretty solid--the best choice I've found on Android anyway, and I tried quite a few along the way (including K-9).

I would have placed K-9 as a solid second place choice behind Aquamail, if you asked me to rank general-purpose Android mail clients (not specialty stuff like Outlook for Android).

I also vote for Aquamail. I have no problem paying for apps as long as the price is right and the app is actually worth using and Aquamail definitely fits both of those; it's got lots of features, it offers lots of configurability, it works great with multiple different email-accounts, it's rock-solid and it's fast as well -- what's not to like?

I did try a lot of different options before landing on Aquamail, actually, and I haven't felt the need to look any further since then.