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      I get the joke, but also I was shocked to see in the article:

      Thunderbird for Android runs on mobile devices running Android 5 and above.

      Who out there is still running Lollipop?! That came out over a decade ago. You can’t even get Thunderbird through the Play Store because Google Play Services dropped support for 5.1 back in July. I have so many questions.

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        I mean Thunderbird on windows always looked like it could work on windows 95 so I’m not surprised

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    🥳

    Been looking forward to this for a long time—K-9 Mail is an excellent mail client, but this is one step closer to Desktop/Mobile sync.

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    After waiting years for this I ended up using FairEmail, which is absolutely amazing. I’d have a hard time switching to something else at this point.

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      I’ve been fairly happy with K9 but if they are about to Mozillify it, I will check out FairEmail.

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        I don’t understand the downvotes. Mozilla’s new CEO is questionable at best. He’s been stuffing ad-related nonsense into Firefox since he assumed.

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          Is Mozilla that involved in Thunderbird? IIRC their revitalization happened more under The Thunderbird Foundation after Mozilla put them out to pasture to die after years of neglect.

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          Last time I talked about Thunderbird here on Lemmy (and was downvoted because, allegedly, Thunderbird and K-9 are the exact same app, according to android@lemmy.world), I seem to recall it was however mentioned one of the differences between the two is that Thunderbird was going to include setup for Google play subscriptions (whatever that is)…

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            They mention it in the article, but I think its purely for donations, so you can subscribe to donate on a monthly basis

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        The devs description states that it’s intentionally minimalistic visually and focuses on advanced features. FairEmail is way overkill for someone with a single gmail account for example. At the time that I found it, FairEmail was the only client that met all of my needs. Like managing multiple accounts, each with multiple folders and none of that unified nonsense. It’s also available on F-Droid and GitHub.

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        I’m in the same boat - with them for the encrypted email, but it does hold me back from using third party apps on mobile. Hopefully they get an easier way to use third party apps on mobile. Will probably just end up being a mobile bridge app or something

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              This remains my #1 complaint every time they send me a “how are we doing” survey

              I check, then reply:

              Your email app still doesn’t support basic functionality like creating and editing filters, something I had to code for a phone app back in high school

              Like, holy shit, the feature exists on desktop why the fuck can’t I have it in the app rreeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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        Thx! That’s for desktop. The bridge is alright. There’s no major drawback to it afaik. But this is news about android. Thunderbird bought k9mail

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          The bridge just creates imap/smtp servers, so you should be able to add it to thunderbird on Android.

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            That’s very good to know, thx! But that means I have to run the bridge on my server, open the ports there etc. , right?

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              Edit: just tried this and it didn’t work. Proton bridge only listens on 127.0.0.1 and doesn’t accept incoming connections due to security concerns.

              If I were in your position, which I am and will probably end up doing this, is vpn into your home network and just connect to the local IP of your bridge server.

              WG tunnel on F droid allows for you to auto connect to your wireguard server when you leave your home net, and auto disconnects when you get back on your home net.

              Personally, I’m unsure if proton bridge listens for external request or if it only accepts requests from localhost? If that’s the case it may be an issue.

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        No IMAP/SMTP support with ProtonMail. You have to run their bridge application locally to get that functionality.
        IMAP/SMTP does make their encryption at rest impossible, AFAIK similar providers like tuta don’t have those either.

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        Yes. Calendar is even worse. There’s no bridge at all. Proton should’ve used a standard protocol and put their encryption on top of it in a separate layer to make it comlatible with other software

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          Proton should’ve used a standard protocol and put their encryption on top of it in a separate layer to make it comlatible with other software

          That’s a hacky approach ngl. Security would’ve left the chat the exact moment they had a thought about doing that in their heads. Proton is a known company. Imo developing their own protocol is a good decision if they can’t make the existing one work properly at all.

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    One important thing K-9 does that this doesn’t: realese on F-Droid.

    What is this? At least provide a repository like DivestOS… while you are at it, get the code for the free software off of proprietary Microsoft GitHub.

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        How on Earth do you lose this support in the handover shuffle—especially knowing the audience a third-party email client? I would say it shouldn’t be released if F-Droid support isn’t there since it isn’t something you would want to back-burner.

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          I’m pretty sure it’s an issue on F-Droid’s end, as it’s always a few days behind for all my other apps that get released on the play store as well. IIRC they have a release process that involves them compiling the packages that takes a while to run.

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      Thunderbird 128 ESR has a really nice/modern look. Besides, if you don’t like the default look, you have plenty of themes to use with.

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    Anyone know if they plan to add other parts of the desktop version to the Android version? Would be nice to see at least the calendar. The RSS stuff would be cool too.

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      I think I remember reading some comments in a previous blogpost that it wasn’t really in the near-future roadmap at least. I think there are a couple good android calendar apps without needing Thunderbird to port that. RSS sync would be great though, I’d love that too.

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      Note that -

      Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

      source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird