Years later, in 2017, he got his true start in tech journalism working for a small Google-focused site called Pixel Spot. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum Emudesc in 2013. Firefox Sync for synchronization between desktop Thunderbird and K-9 is expected to arrive by summer 2023, so the app might look a lot more Thunderbird-like by that point.Īrol is a tech journalist and contributor at Android Police.

Of course, with the app being fully open-source, you can check out how things are going in K-9 Mail's GitHub repository. It'll undergo a lot of changes before it actually becomes Thunderbird, and the development team is going to need help and testing over that process. If you want to help shape the future of Thunderbird on mobile, the team encourages you to install K-9 Mail on your Android phone now. Down the road, once certain development goals have been met in terms of looks and features (like synchronization between mobile and desktop, Thunderbird account auto-configuration, and support for message filters), K-9 Mail will be rebranded as Thunderbird. To make for a smooth transition, K-9 Mail's project maintainer, Christian Ketterer (also known as cketti) is joining the Thunderbird staff. This means that Thunderbird will essentially be built upon the tried-and-true K-9 app that many open-source evangelists are already familiar with. Mozilla has obtained the trademark rights and source code of K-9 Mail, including its GitHub repo.

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