I'm long K9 user, and I was aware of it becoming Thunderbird, but I need to clarify what should I do to easy eventual transition, hopefully without having the deal with all my K9 settings...
Today K9 turned into Thunderbird Beta for Testers, however there's already an app called that way Thunderbird Beta for Testers showing up on f-droid. Thoug the actual ID of each differ (com.fsck.k9 vs. net.thunderbird.android.beta).
What should K9 users do, to avoid losing its current settings (accounts, folder settings, encryption and so on)? Should we remain using the K9 app, and hope that when it goes away then the thunderbird app replaces it somehow automatically and pick all accounts and settings? Should this period when the two apps with the same name coexist be used to install thunderbird beta for testers, hope that it pick all settings from K9 up, and then remove K9?
It's somehow confusing, I was originally hoping at some point K9 just turned into thunderbird, but at once, automatically, without still having two apps, so I'm wondering what's next. For now I'm just still using the K9 app with thunderbird name...
Thanks !
You don't have to do anything. K-9 Mail remains K-9 Mail. A mistake was made in the naming process. This will be fixed soon. So in F-Droid the following will be present: K-9 Mail Thunderbird Thunderbird Beta
Thunderbird for Android is based on K-9 Mail, but has received a few changes here and there (e.g. the accent color is blue instead of pink). As mentioned above, K-9 Mail will remain and will probably continue to get the Beta & Stable versions in the version selector. Thunderbird has been split into two apps for this purpose. The settings should usually be able to be adopted from K-9 Mail and vise versa, because of the same codebase (but I haven't tested it). In the end, it's up to you whether you prefer the dog or the bird. :)
Edit: Added more info.
OK, many thanks !
I'll just do nothing for now then. I hope if at some point a migration is required, it's sort of automatic, f-droid just starts using the Thunderbird app rather than the K9, without user intervention other than performing the f-droid upgrade, one and that would be it. But we'll see.
If you ask, knowing it's the same thing, I would have gone with just one app, replacing the other one, and that would be easier and clearer, :)
Thanks a lot again !
I updated to thunderbird from k9 on fdroid- accounts etc imported ok.
Thunderbird beta for testers?
No that’s a different one. There’s also Thunderbird: Free your inbox (Vers 8.0) which I assume is the release.
correct, that's the official release, the other is beta for testers...
Ohh, it needs to import though. I was afraid in case there would be sort of two different directories over the same data, or that on TB dir it would be to start fetching stuff. But it seems it literally copies over the directory contents, which is fine, since the then the other app could easily been removed.
And it works with TB non beta, I guess it works with beta for testers a well (though I like the release, and see how it goes). I'll be using non beta for now, a bit behind, I prefer to use releases rather than beta releases, and on f-droid I enabled unstable upgrades...
Anyone played with push vs. pull on TB? On K9, I ended up having both. With the last years changes, it removed the push option selecting from the fetching configs, but the push could be selected/deselected from each folder, and I keep them both. Pulling makes the requirement of not having restrictions on battery usage though.
Not sure if that's getting any better with TB (non beta or beta), and if push has gotten any better. In the end, imap push/idle pretty much depend on the server, and not so much on the client I'd guess...
Thanks !