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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
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Subject: Re: Thunderbird for Android Beta
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:46:37 -0000 (UTC)
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Andy Burns wrote on Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:33:17 +0100 :

>> <https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/>
>> 
>> Thunderbird Beta for Testers
>> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thunderbird.android.beta>
>> 
>> If you're already using K-9 Mail: apparently everything (settings,
>> mails, ...) can be exported to Thunderbird. This is in fact the main
>> thing they are testing.
>> 
>> (Haven't tried it myself.)
> I'll give it a go on my backup phone ...

Thanks SorB and Andy for the information on K-9 mail which morphed to
Thunderbird when Google forced 2FA (and then backed off a bit).

During that horrific 3-month period before Google backed off on the
mandatory 2FA for all non-Google MUAs, I moved from K-9mail to FairEmail
and have been happy ever since (although the developer was frustrated by
Google and the K-9 developers helped him get past the hurdle).

 *FairEmail*, privacy aware email by Marcel Bokhorst, FairCode BV, FOSS
 Free, ad free, gsf free, 4.6 star, 24.3K reviews, 500K+ Downloads
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.email>
 <https://email.faircode.eu/>
 <https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases>
 <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/>
 <https://www.xda-developers.com/fairemail-email-app-privacy-conscious-android/>
 <https://www.xda-developers.com/fairemail-open-source-privacy-friendly-email/>

Bear in mind that FairEmail (and I presume Thunderbird for Android)
accesses a Google mail account just fine - without 2FA (we hope).

As a side note to those who don't understand privacy, if you're using the
GMail app on your phone, then you have no right to complain about privacy 
because you can't use GMail on a phone without it creating an account on
the phone (the account that GMail creates is the privacy hole).

Back to Thunderbird, I do use BetterBird on Windows but I doubt there is
any semblance of that Thunderbird on the Android Thunderbird, is there?