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submitted 1 year ago by Sinfaen@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Just recently started using thunderbird to see how it would help managing múltiple Gmail accounts. Has anybody used the app version? Is it good? Bad?

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

I've been using K-9 for a while, works great, didn't realise it was related to thunderbird.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 36 points 1 year ago

Mozilla hired the dev, and K9 will be renamed to Thunderbird next month.

[-] _s10e@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago

One or two years ago Mozilla hired the main developer of K-9 Mail. The dev previously raised enough donations to work on K-9 Mail for a while and modernize it after not having an official release for years.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 year ago

Same. At some point had jumped on librem mail as it had forked k9 to update the interface, but have been back for a few years now.

[-] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 31 points 1 year ago

I've been using it for a couple years with two accounts. It's great imo, highly recommended

[-] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 25 points 1 year ago

K-9 is simply the best email client on android, I've been using it since 2015

[-] yak@lmy.brx.io 23 points 1 year ago

Not tried the app version. Been using Fairemail for a while now, since k9 was unmaintained.

Fairemail is well maintained. Quick. Supports multiple accounts very well. Loads of features (could be a downside for those who like things simple). Designed with security and privacy as top priorities right from the start. Open source development. For a long time its been the best email client on Android IMHO.

[-] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

+1 for fairmail. Never have I seen an app so functional yet so ugly at the same time.

[-] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

The same could be said for K-9. What more could you want from an email app.

[-] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Last time I checked, K-9 didn't have OAUTH integration.

Granted, it's been a few years, so that may have changed since then.

As much as I don't like Gmail, I need it for work so it's kinda important for productivity software to support that.

Edit: Nvm. Looks like they finally added OAUTH last year. Better late than never.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I moved from K9 to FairEmail too, and I think I'll be staying as long as it's maintained. I particularly like the focus on privacy.

I like how K-9 hooks directly into OpenKeychain for encryption. Does Fairemail do that?

[-] yak@lmy.brx.io 1 points 1 year ago
[-] tsl@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago

I've been using it for many years with my four mailboxes and I am very happy with it!

[-] h3ndrik@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think I've been using K-9 Mail for 10+ years or something. The settings were kind of all over the place but it has always been one of the email clients with the most features.

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Fairmail has a ton of features. I left k9 when it seemed like it was abandoned.

I am using both now that it is maintained again.

[-] Sinfaen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Wow that's a long time! I think I'm gonna go ahead and try it

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I use it and its worked well for years. It even supports Oauth

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I have 4 accounts and it works as it should. Lots of options. It's a complete mail system

[-] kjo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

I do. It suffice.

[-] Tubulous@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, works well for me. My work uses GMail and K-9 supports it. I don't have the Play Store and K-9 supports OAuth.

[-] simon_greenwood@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

K-9 is being used as the base for Thunderbird for Android but it isn't there yet. FairEmail is a lot closer in functionality at the moment.

I use Thunderbird for Gmail (among other accounts) and it has to regularly compress my Gmail box, which none of the Android clients do - in my experience, Aqua Mail, K-9 and FairEmail all struggle with a decent sized Gmail mailbox after a while.

[-] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

For me it's good, let's me leave emails on the server so my desktop can read them too. Let's me reply below or above and compose in ascii. Doesn't impose ways of working I don't want.

[-] OrkneyKomodo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hangs down, the best email client for IMAP.

I do not, but only because I use ProtonMail and don't have premium so I don't have IMAP/SMTP bridging.

I used it all the time back around 2011/2012 and it was pretty great, but that was admittedly a long time ago so I imagine lots have changed since them.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I do have protonmail premium with my own domain, but the IMAP bridging is for desktop. It's a small program that kind of works as a MITM, one side connecting to protonmail securely using, i guess, not IMAP, and the other acting as an IMAP server that your mail clients connect to. On mobile you have to use the protonmail app, AFAIK.

Oh, I wasn't aware bridging was desktop-only. Thanks for correcting me. 👍

[-] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Used to. Prefer Aquamail. I'm a thunderbird user on my workstation though. The latest changes were controversial, but it's fine once you enable the system title bar and hide the menu bar.

[-] xinayder@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Which changes, care to elaborate?

[-] Eikichi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Ofc. This is the way,

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Love it. No adds in my Gmail!

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Do you get ads in Gmail in other clients? I don't think I've ever seen one

[-] junezephier@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Google's gmail app recently started showing ads in the inbox alongside messages, really gross stuff

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

That sucks. I haven't had any yet, but I'll keep an eye out

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago
[-] autumn64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that sucks sm

[-] autumn64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I use K-9 for my outlook/365 accounts and it works fine. I also have my NAVER account there but I can't send emails because I've been too lazy to configure the SMTP settings properly.

[-] anoklola@mastodon.world 2 points 1 year ago

@Sinfaen I really want to, but the UI is just not that good, and I do really care about how the application looks.

[-] Sinfaen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing's gonna be perfect for everyone 👍

[-] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I like it. My only issue with it is that it doesn't seem to want to download attached (vs remote) images automatically.

[-] movie@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It requires 2-step verification which requires a phone number, security key or google prompt for google accounts. Hard pass :D edit: i stand corrected, this seems to have been changed

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