Email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird for Android

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

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I used to use K-9 regularly, years ago, but yes — it seemed to be unmaintained, and when Fastmail's own client got to the point of not sucking, I didn't have much use for K-9 any longer.

I used to be quite fond of Thunderbird as well; it's been my daily driver since 2004. I still use it from time to time, although not as often as I use Fastmail's web client. Thunderbird feels like abandonware, though. It gets updates all the time, but none of them seem to change anything noticeable, including long-standing issues like its tendency to get confused by search terms and its unwillingness to play nicely with high-DPI font scaling. And I'd love to see proper JMAP support added..

Same here. I’m a former heavy Thunderbird user who has more or less migrated completely to the Fastmail web client on desktop. I need to use Outlook for some work accounts and I reckon Fastmail is much better - particularly when it comes to filing/moving/copying emails around my enormous 30 year collection of email folders.