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Philippe
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should I change the source? Is there an advantage?
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erAck
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So there are now 3:

"Thunderbird Beta for Testers"
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which was K-9, now suggests and updated to TB 8.0, but latest there is 8.0b5

"Thunderbird Beta for Testers"
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suggests latest 8.0b5

"Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox"
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the actual release 8.0

If one used K-9 now updated to TB 8.0, will it receive updates? Or will the release have to be installed? Will all accounts have to be entered anew? Or migrated?


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Schlaftablette
Schlaftablette
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@erAck I was not aware that K9 is "Thunderbird Beta for Testers", uninstalled it to install the real "Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox" and now the K9 settings are gone. Thank you.
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@fernsehchat @erAck This was a metadata slip on our part. K-9 Mail will still be its own app on F-Droid and elsewhere, and the fix should come in the next few days. Sorry for any confusion!
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Tinx
Tinx
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Hello dear K-9 users! You probably got a suggested updated for K-9 to "Thunderbird Beta for Testers". This is just a metadata issue, which displays a wrong name and icon. The update itself is K-9 in version 8.0.
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erAck
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@tinx
Thanks. So to add to the confusion there's a release 8.0 of both, TB and K-9, and K-9 has an updated UI that looks like, well, TB, or effectively is TB ... or what?

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Tinx
Tinx
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@erAck so this is the story in short off the top of my head (and apart from the recent metadata mixup):
K-9 partnered up with the Thunderbird team and the app got an overhaul. So effectively, Thunderbird for Android is K-9. However, they promised us that we K-9 users would not need to switch to TB, but if we wanted to at some point, there would be an easy way.
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erAck
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@tinx
Right, that's what I expected, I just hope that staying on K-9 will receive (TB) updates or offer a user-friendly migration to the "real" TB.

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zaunkoenig
zaunkoenig
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@erAck @tinx There is an easy migration: Update to the latest version of K9, install Thunderbird, and select "import from app" or something like this, I think it is the third option. You can then select K9 and all settings and passwords are imported.
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erAck
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@zaunkoenig
I'll keep that in mind for later.. thanks.

Probably should be prominently added to the com.fsck.k9 description.

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Ditutu
Ditutu
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@tinx @erAck
It's probably a good idea to go to settings, backup, export settings. Just in case...
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erAck
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@D22
Absolutely. As apps can not access other apps' data there will not be an automatic migration.

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zaunkoenig
zaunkoenig
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@erAck @D22 @tinx But ... there is. You can select import from app without any backup.
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Cheng Zhang
Cheng Zhang
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Is there a way to replace the default reply button to reply all? Or show both buttons?
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Gamey :thisisfine: :antifa:
Gamey :thisisfine: :antifa:
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I will probably try it at some point, fairly happy with FairEmail but who knows, this could be even better I guess!
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