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Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app (blog.thunderbird.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!

Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!

The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:

September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android

Third week of October – first release candidate

Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is great, could always use better Android email clients and Thunderbird is quite good on the desktop at least.

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

K9 mail is all i have ever wanted in a mobile email client. Supports e2ee plugins too.

Mozilla has bigger issue imo. They should focus on maintaining, fixing and improving their existing core products instead of trying to cover everything.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mozilla bought K9 mail. If you're using K9, you've been "beta testing" Thunderbird for quite somd time now.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, then it is even more weird to create a new product.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's just a re-brand, really. Blue bird instead of red robo-dog.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thunderbird is not developed by Mozilla Corporation, but an independent subsidiary named "MZLA".

The only focus of this company is Thunderbird.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The title says "Mozilla" so either the title is wrong or this app is not developed by MZLA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

MZLA makes Thunderbird. Mozilla Corp makes Firefox. Mozilla Foundation owns both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The title is wrong. Thunderbird is not developed by Mozilla.

Although Mozilla still provides CI, CDN, trasnlation tools, and other infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

K9 is a near perfect email client.

All Mozilla did was take an existing privacy respecting app (with zero user tracking) and add their spyware telemetry code to it: 544mozilla.telemetry.glean.

Now they are gas lighting users by advertising this new version as "privacy-focused".

Mozilla is like a virus at this point.