#Features
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Thunderbird for Android branding is now available
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Material 3 Navigation drawer
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Updated color scheme
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Allow migrating settings directly from an existing K-9 or Thunderbird for Android install
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Make use of Glean SDK
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Add basic feature setup for funding via Google Play subscriptions (we’ll use this for financial contributions)
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Use […] for outer subject when encrypting the subject
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Remove “Move/copy destination folders” setting
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Remove “Folders to search” setting
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Remove folder push class to simplify folder notifications
Took them long enough.
NGL https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.email is a lot better…
Not bad for a mail client for the early 2000s.
Better how? There’s no right or wrong answer, I had both.
The menus are definitely busy and confusing (there are many options), but once it’s set up I’ve never been bothered by the UI. I quite like how emails are shown OOTB in fact, with the right padding and day separation; I also use most buttons that are offered by default. So yeah, sane defaults.
Off the top of my head what I like:
- you can search emails on the server! That’s the one feature I couldn’t forgo
- it detects unsubscribe links
- I remember having delays when using K9, with FairEmail not once. This could be fixed now
- it cleverly shows you’re connected to a VPN (which can be a problem with emails)
- maybe too many options, but a lot are actually useful
Not trying to say it’s better, to each their own. But it’s great.
Ugh they didn’t keep the same oauth flow so I have to get IT to approve it again for Outlook
I’m not sure, but that could be connected to the name change K9➡️Thunderbird. They have said that they will maintain parallel releases of both (identical except for the name/branding) for the immediate future. This release appears to be the identical but may (or may not) solve the issue.
Yup, should be the same release, just using a different token and therefore needs approved separately
