

This move allows Thunderbird users to have a powerful, privacy-respecting email experience today on Android. “Thunderbird users have long been asking for Thunderbird on their Android and iOS devices. Because the app already supports power user features with a shared focus on privacy and open standards, Mozilla acknowledged that taking over the K-9 Mail open source project was the easiest way to bring Thunderbird to Android. The app has a Gmail-like interface and supports every email provider with push IMAP support and unified inboxes. K-9 Mail is a quite popular email client on Android with over 5 million downloads on the Play Store. Christian Ketterer, the developer and maintainer of K-9 Mail has joined the Thunderbird team and will work on transforming the app into the Android version of Thunderbird.

Mozilla revealed today that the open-source Android email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird on Android.
