10-02-2024 02:24 PM
The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!
Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!
The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:
Below are the options for where you can download with Beta and get started:
We are still working on preparing F-Droid builds. In the meanwhile, please make use of the other two download mechanisms.
Once you’ve downloaded the Thunderbird for Android beta, we’d like you to check that you can do the following:
If you’re already using K-9 Mail, you can help test an important feature: transferring your data from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android. To do this, you’ll need to make sure you’ve upgraded to the latest beta version of K-9 Mail.
This transfer process is a key step in making it easier for K-9 Mail users to move over to Thunderbird. Testing this will help ensure a smooth and reliable experience for future users making the switch.
Later builds will additionally include a way to transfer your information from Thunderbird Desktop to Thunderbird for Android.
We know it’s tempting to comment about everything you notice in the beta. For the purpose of this short initial beta, we won’t be focusing on addressing longstanding issues. Instead, we ask you to be laser focused on critical bugs, the checklist above, and issues could prevent users from effectively interacting with the app, to help us deliver a great initial release.
Share your feedback on the Thunderbird for Android beta mailing list and see the feedback of other users. It’s easy to sign up and let us know what worked and more importantly, what didn’t work from the tasks above. For bug reports, please provide as much detail as possible including steps to reproduce the issue, your device model and OS version, and any relevant screenshots or error messages.
Want to chat with other community members, including other testers and contributors working on Thunderbird for Android? Join us on Matrix!
Do you have ideas you would like to see in future versions of Thunderbird for Android? Let us know on Mozilla Connect, our official site to submit and upvote ideas.
10-04-2024 06:37 AM
I found a problem, I want to log in my mailbox to thunderbird Android, but it says that the configuration is not found, I can't log in to my mailbox, I use the email address of 139 in China
10-04-2024 07:47 AM
Hi! Are you trying to connect automatically or manually? If automatic connection doesn't work, you can try to manually connect. This is just what I've found online in English-language support, but here are some settings:
IMAP
139.com IMAP Server: imap.139.com
139.com IMAP Port: 993
IMAP Security: SSL
IMAP Username: your-email@139.com
IMAP Password: Your 139.com password
SMTP
139.com SMTP Server: smtp.139.com
139.com SMTP Port: 465
139.com SMTP Security: TLS
139.com SMTP Username: your-email@139.com
139.com SMTP Password: Your 139.com password
POP3
139.com POP3 Server: pop.139.com
139.com POP3 Port: 995
139.com POP3 Security: SSL
139.com POP3 Username: your-email@139.com
139.com POP3 Password: Your 139.com password
Please let us know if these work!
10-05-2024 07:50 AM
The issue has been resolved. I also have a suggestion that I want to combine emails from the same person into one record, click on them and then show all the emails they have sent. It's like the chat interface of a chat software
10-07-2024 08:29 AM
That sounds like a very good suggestion for the 'Ideas' section of Mozilla Connect! https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas/label-name/thunderbird%20android
10-04-2024 11:26 AM - edited 10-04-2024 11:27 AM
@MonicaAyhensMadfantastic work. I've been using it for a week now and it's so good. All good with the checklist. Fast and snappy, lots of config options too. I've been using Outlook for Android before this but now I think this could be a replacement. I'm a multi account user and was pleasantly happy to see that there's multiple identities supported.
Question - where can we put feature requests, is here OK? Would really love to see a snooze feature. Basically same as how Gmail and Outlook do it, with a gesture swipe the email and snooze it until <options>. Usually the options are today, tomorrow, weekend, custom date. The email then just disappears until that date. I've noticed that Gmail/Outlook just move it to another folder and then bring it back later.
10-15-2024 03:58 AM
@lovelyjubbly see the ideas section of connect mentioned in the previous posting https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/m-p/73190/h...
10-04-2024 01:45 PM
Oh, that's great feedback to hear, and we hope this can help you replace Outlook on your phone!
And we're very open to feedback, just on a different section of Connect! If you go to https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas/label-name/thunderbird%20android you can submit the idea or, if someone has already submitted it, comment on it and upvote it!
10-07-2024 05:44 AM
I already wrote on this reply which as a beta tester with password for this I thought would be connected to that forum ?.. then discovered needed to sign into Mozilla a different platform and my comment was vanished.. If comments should be added within the app itself please make this clear.. perhaps comments should be enabled or linked within the mail account page. .
10-07-2024 08:32 AM
If you are logged in here, it's okay to leave comments on the beta, especially about any problems following the checklist, if this is easier for you!
10-07-2024 11:11 AM
I gave it a try but not for long as it's just as difficult to use as K9 Mail, though at least doesn't have the horrible pink tint. I also wasn't going to trust a beta with my main account in case it lost the plot and wiped everything off the IMAP server.
Unlike Lovelyjubbly I couldn't find ANY configuration options beyond 'Manage Folders' and had assumed they'd been removed to reduce the number of variables during testing.
So my conclusion is that it worked as far as I could tell: auto set-up a GMail account and received messages which I could see and delete. However it didn't give me any reason to change from K9 and certainly seems to be Thunderbird in name only.
10-10-2024 10:39 AM
Thanks for your feedback. The apps being identical, except for branding, is definitely intentional. It makes it easier to maintain two apps for now, both in development and support.
10-09-2024 01:07 PM
Exciting to see the Thunderbird for Android beta launch! It’s great that the community can help shape its development.
10-13-2024 07:46 PM
So awesome to have this launching soon!! Thank you so much for continuing to update and push forward this experience. I'm seriously so excited for it and what's to come over the next few years! 🤞🏼 I've Ben testing it out and was curious if there's any other way to leave feedback outside of that link you shared?
10-14-2024 06:50 AM
Thanks so much for trying it out! And you can definitely leave your feedback here, if you don't feel like signing up for the mailing list, which we understand! (Soooooo many mailing lists in our inbox!)
10-15-2024 06:24 AM
Amazing! Thank you!!
10-17-2024 02:47 AM
Using it for 2 weeks almost. Found some bugs. But no way to report them directly via app itself as with email and report number that is tracked.
10-17-2024 07:41 AM
Thunderbird for Android bugs are handled through GitHub Issues: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues
If you'd like to suggest being able to report a bug via the app, you can suggest that in the Ideas section of Mozilla Connect!
10-19-2024 08:00 AM
OK.
But highlighting 2 bugs or issues here itself as I am using it on my device as secondary email app apart from Outlook mail app.
- If you search for a term in email app and want to select them all or select manually which one to choose then there is no multiple selection of emails. All other email apps have this in-built by default. Why Thunderbird misses this out, IDK.
- Whenever I am checking mails in the app, most of them are of days before and when I swipe down, then I get tons of loading in my app and device despite allowing latest and oldest 500 mails to be on my device (I have latest device with 12 GB RAM and Android 14 and fastest processor)
- OTP received via emails arent copy-able. I have to manually type it in the other app which has asked for it. Otherwise, it is easily copy-able. OTP asked by sites like Udemy and Canva and GitHub.
- Themes and UI needs beatification and colors like Outlook and Edison Email app has UI.
11-03-2024 06:24 PM
@Var-Pro-12 please file bugs at https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues.
Thanks
10-19-2024 04:05 AM
reat post! It's awesome to see the community involved in testing Thunderbird for Android. The clear checklist and K-9 Mail transfer focus make the process smooth for testers.
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