Hello dear K-9 users!

You probably got a suggested updated for K-9 to "Thunderbird Beta for Testers".

This is just a metadata issue, which displays a wrong name and icon. The update itself is K-9 in version 8.0. You don't get automatically switched over to Thunderbird.

This will probably be fixed in the next index update.

In other news: Thunderbird for Android is available now on #FDroid ;)

@fdroidorg thanks. Love to see @thunderbird / #Thunderbird for #Android...

@fdroidorg So K-9 is still a thing? I thought it was replaced by Thunderbird since I was suggested to update it to thunderbird.

@timkrief @fdroidorg k-9 now shares a codebase with thunderbird, the built apk has just a different branding

@joshix @timkrief @fdroidorg great, that means I can stay with K-9. Thanks for the clarification.

@timkrief
At least it is still a thing for a while/for now.
AFAIK, IIRC, it’ll be fully replaced, but there has been some discussions for keeping the original icon and names somewhere in the app settings, in a similar way as it exists with Fedilab icons.

@timkrief

Apparently it was just a bug in the index, where the app store displayed a wrong name. Hitting the update button would have gotten you k9 and not Thunderbird.

@fdroidorg

@timkrief @fdroidorg Same here. Will they coexist in the long term? If so, in how far do they differ?

@fdroidorg what's thunderbird?

@fdroidorg > This will probably be fixed in the next index update.
Does this mean it will get fixed on next version update (like 8.1) whenever one is available.
Or will be fixed once the CI job runs with correct metadata?

@balki when the next batch of apps are built, signed and published (= index update) to our servers. So probably in a few days.

@fdroidorg What trackers are in these packages? The descriptions do not indicate which trackers, if any, are included.

K-9 6.x has NO trackers. But MZLA made it clear during the Thunderbird/K-9 8 beta process they have no commitment to maintaining that status quo. In fact, some of their people were downright hostile to the idea of an app that didn't send tracking data to them, even when it was pointed out the way it was being handled violated the EU's GDPR.

@traecer there are no trackers left on the F-Droid build of Thunderbird.

@fdroidorg so will those that got auto-updated to it get that corrected to the regular version of @thunderbird or does one have to manually fix this?

@fdroidorg hi there, I can only find Thunderbird beta and K9, not an official Thunderbird for Android on F-droid? Do I have to add another repo in F-droid to find the official Thunderbird app?

@zandbelt @fdroidorg

Here you go:
https://f-droid.org/packages/net.thunderbird.android/

Cc: @thunderbird

@zandbelt @fdroidorg i can see it in main repo
Thunderbird: Befreie deinen Posteingang (Thunderbird ist eine 100 % quelloffene, datenschutzfreundliche E-Mail-App.)
https://f-droid.org/packages/net.thunderbird.android/

@Kurt @fdroidorg thanks I do see it now

@GoldenStar @fdroidorg a good mail client...

@kkarhan @thunderbird

nobody was autoupdated from K-9 to Thunderbird.
The only (auto)update that happened was K-9 (installed version) to K-9 8.0, but with a wrong display text in F-Droid client.

If you want to migrate to Thunderbird, you will have to install it as new app. But you can import your settings from K-9.

@kkarhan @fdroidorg oh yea forgor

@GoldenStar @fdroidorg IMHO the only good client with GUI standing.

@fdroidorg
What is the difference between K9 Mail 8.x and Thunderbird 8.x ?
Why the sudden jump from v6 to v8 for K9?

@X_BSD probably @thunderbird can give a better answer than we can do

@fdroidorg @kkarhan @thunderbird thats not true. I was autoupdated to the thunderbird for beta testers package.

@stevelord @fdroidorg @thunderbird Exactly...

@kkarhan @stevelord @fdroidorg We had a metadata issue last week (sorry!) that made it seem that K-9 Mail was the TfA Beta app when it actually was still K-9. It seems to show correctly in the store now, but again, sorry for any confusion! To go from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android, you'll need to install TfA and then migrate your settings: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/kb/thunderbird-android-import

@thunderbird @stevelord @fdroidorg

Also when one installs #Thunderbird for #Android, it offers importing settings from #K9Mail and that just works.

• So ideally one just installs Thunderbird, let it import settings from K9-Mail and then one's ready to roll.

Takes literal seconds...