A traditional-style rich email client – but for tablets
MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing – but it’s a lot more mature than that sounds.
Thunderbird for Android has reached beta testing, and you can grab it from the Google Play Store. A version should follow on the FOSS F-Droid store soon. If you want to build it yourself, the source code is on GitHub.
It has been a few years’ wait: the Thunderbird Foundation hired the app’s lead developer, Christian Ketterer, nearly two and a half years ago now. But saying that, although it’s officially only a beta, the app is considerably more mature than it sounds.
Not because he’s had 28 months to work on the app. He has, but that’s not the reason: the real reason is that Thunderbird for Android is not a ground-up new project.
