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[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It references a sort of partnership with K9 Mail on android, but later says they're looking to expand Thunderbird into the iOS & Android space. Either they'll be direct competitors of each other or they'll start to blend into each other. I'm wondering which.

[–] americanwaste@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Previous blogs have mentioned K-9 is just being rebranded as Thunderbird for Android once the Android app is closer in features to the desktop release. The iOS release will be new entirely as I don't know of an existing iOS email app they can rebrand.