Thunderbird's New Rust Integration: The Future of Email Clients?
Thunderbird's New Rust Integration: The Future of Email Clients?
Upcoming Thunderbird release in July to feature Rust-based EWS protocol implementation, enhancing Microsoft Exchange compatibility.
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The Evolution email client is pretty great, and FairEmail for Android.
K-9 mail is better
K-9 mail is eventually going to become Thunderbird for Android, just for anyone who didn't know.
I don't remember why but I switched from k9 to fairemail a long time ago. I think it might have been the branding lol... Shallow I know but I just can't get passed the logo / name. I might give it another shot once it's rebranded.
Different people, different taste.
I love FairEmail because of its "millions" of settings and the privacy features, for an example if you press a link, you'll get a popup with options (for an example, what app you want to open the link with). And if the link contains trackers, FairEmail will remove these by default and saying "tracking parameters removed" with yellow text in bold.
K-9 Mail feels incomplete in comparison. Have you tried FairEmail?
The fairmail F-droid version was broken last time I used it
And when was "last time"? :) I have been using F-Droid for FairEmail since I tried the email client for the first time few years ago and I have never got any issues. Just updated FairEmail while writing this comment. Works just fine :)
Use the Github release for gmail
K-9 mail is what I originally used, but it isn't supported or being developed any more. There were some weird issues that I can't remember now that caused me to switch to FairEmail.
K-9 mail... isn’t supported or being developed any more.
That's not true. They make frequent-enough releases, they post monthly progress reports, and they are actually going to become Thunderbird's Android version.
Having said that, I almost switched to FairEmail because K-9 lacked support for some sort of authentication measure (which I no longer need), but that wasn't because K-9 stopped development.
They must have started again. It was a dead project when I switched to FairEmail. I'm glad to hear it, because it's a good program.
I don't recall it ever being a dead project. They did have a time period where you had to either join the beta on Play Store, obtain the beta on Github releases, or use F-Droid and install the beta. They were working on integrating certain things and rewrites before doing an official release.
It was a pinned issue in their issue tracker.
The whole 5.7xx series were betas, and 5.800 started the official releases again