Mozilla's version of the story already on the front page for > 2 hours:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31725103" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31725103</a>
Don't think this means Mozilla is now putting resources to develop K-9.<p>Mozilla halted development of Thunderbird 10 years ago (2012) and it has been community run ever since.<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/6/3142046/mozilla-halt-further-development-thunderbird" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/6/3142046/mozilla-halt-furth...</a>
after some thought on this i guess im optimistic. Thunderbird always seemed to avoid the more hair-brained crap stuffed into Firefox to turn a profit like voice chat.<p>Thunderbird on the desktop is over 200mb these days, so it will be interesting to see if k9 can avoid turning into a chungus on my phone.
Thunderbird on desktop is unusable for me on privacy grounds; it phones home in the same manner as Firefox.<p>I hope this behavior does not infect K-9 Mail.
So there's Thunderbird for desktop Linux and K-9 Mail for mobile Android. I'd love to see mobile Linux somewhere on the roadmap here.<p>Right now there's Geary, which is OK for what it is but quite limited and basic. I imagine that either mobile-friendly UI for Thunderbird and Linux non-Android K-9 would be quite serious efforts, though.