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Mozilla makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit. Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open-source, cross-platform application for managing email,..
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
1d ago
This month’s topics for our Thunderbird Community Office Hours will be decided by you! We’d like to invite the community to bring their questions, comments, and general conversation to Team Thunderbird for an informal and informational chat. As always, send your questions in advance to officehours@thunderbird.net!
Be sure to note the change in day of the week and time, especially if you’re in Europe and not on summer time yet!
March Office Hours: Open Forum and FAQ
While we love having community office hours with specific topics, from our design process to Add-ons, we want to make time for an ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
2w ago
Welcome to a new report on the progress of transforming K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android. I hope you’ve enjoyed the extra day in February. We certainly did and used this opportunity to release a new stable version on February 29.
If you’re new to this series or the unusually long February made you forget what happened the previous month, you might want to check out January’s progress report.
New stable release
We spent most of our time in February getting ready for a new stable release – K-9 Mail 6.800. That mostly meant fixing bugs and usability issues reported by beta testers. Thanks t ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
3w ago
We’re happy to announce the release of K-9 Mail 6.800. The main goal of this version is to make it easier for you to add your email accounts to the app.
With another item crossed off the list, this brings us one step closer towards Thunderbird for Android.
New account setup
Setting up an email account in K-9 Mail is something many new users have struggled with in the past. That’s mainly because automatic setup was only supported for a handful of large email providers. If you had an email account with another email provider, you had to manually enter the incoming and outgoing server settings ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
1M ago
A new year, a new progress report! Learn what we did in January on our journey to transform K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android. If you’re new here or you forgot where we left off last year, check out the previous progress report.
Account setup
In January most of our work went into polishing the user interface and user experience of the new and improved account setup. However, there was still one feature missing that we really wanted to get in there: the ability to configure special folders.
Special folders
K-9 Mail supports the following special folders:
Archive: When configured, an Archi ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
1M ago
The topic for this month’s Thunderbird Community Office Hours takes a short break from the core of Thunderbird and takes us into the world of extensions we call Add-ons. These allow our users to add features and options beyond the customization already available in Thunderbird by default.
February Office Hours Topic: Add-ons
John Bieling: Sr. Software Engineer, Add-ons Ecosystem
We want it to be easy to make Thunderbird yours, and so does our community. The Thunderbird Add-on page shows the power of community-driven extensions. There are Add-ons for everything, from themes to integrations, th ..read more
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1M ago
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The Thunderbird Project enjoyed a fantastic 2023. From my point of view – as someone who regularly engages with both the community and our team on a daily basis – the past year brought a renewed sense of purpose, sustainability, and excitement to Thunderbird. Let’s talk about a few of the awesome milestones Thunderbird achieved, but let’s also discuss where we stumbled and what lessons we learned along the way.
Our 2023 Milestones
The biggest milestone of 2023 was Thunderbird 115 “Supernova.” Th ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
2M ago
Hello Thunderbird Community! I’m very happy to kick off a new monthly Thunderbird development recap in order to bring a deeper look and understanding of what we’re working on, and the status of these efforts. (We also publish monthly progress reports on Thunderbird for Android.)
These monthly digests will be in a very short format, focusing primarily on the work that is currently being planned or initiated that is not yet fully captured in BugZilla. Nonetheless, we’re putting it out there to cherish and fully embrace the open nature of Thunderbird.
Without further ado, let’s get into it!
2024 ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
2M ago
Please join us for our upcoming Thunderbird community office hours all about Message Context Menu on January 25 at 18:00 UTC! (Keep reading for joining information.)
A New Year of New Office Hours
We’re back from our end of year break, breaking in our new calendars, and ready to start 2024 with our renewed, refreshed, and refocused community office hours. Thank you to everyone who joined us for our November session! If you missed out on our chat about the new Cards View and the Thunderbird design process, you can find the video (which also describes the new format) in this blog post.
We’re ex ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
3M ago
When will Thunderbird for Android be released? This is a question that comes up quite a lot, and we appreciate that you’re all excited to finally put Thunderbird in your pocket. It’s not a simple answer, but we’ll do our best to explain why things are taking longer than expected.
We have always been a bit vague on when we were going to release Thunderbird for Android. At first this was because we still had to figure out what features we wanted to add to K-9 Mail before we were comfortable calling it Thunderbird. Once we had a list, we estimated how long it would take to add those features to ..read more
Mozilla | The Thunderbird Blog
4M ago
Welcome to the progress report for October! If you missed the one for September, you’re in luck, because we always try to include a link to the progress report of the previous month in the introduction.
Translations
All the translations of the app are provided by volunteers from the community. This work is mostly independent from software development and design work. So sometimes it’s easy for us to forget that a lot more people regularly spend time working on the app.
Dear translators, thank you for all the work you’re putting into making the app more accessible by translating it to so many ..read more