I'm continually creeped out by all the PR sugarcoating on what essentially are simple notices of acquisition. Number 1 is the proper way but I have so little incentive to do it that I'll probably stick with my current setup forever. That IMAP server would be on my laptop or (better) on some always on server at home that uses the same file format as Thunderbird. Access Thunderbird directory on my laptop over IMAP.
Set up my own IMAP server at home and deliver email to it, then program some filter system to mimic what I'm doing in Thunderbird.Ģ. However I see two ways to let my phone read old mailġ. Of course I didn't use K9 unless I had an Android phone in 2011. The obvious downside is that I can't access old mail when I'm away from my laptop (example: now.) Surprisingly this never turned out to be a problem for the last 30 years. I delete notifications and anything that doesn't have to be stored forever. I use K9 to read those messages over POP3 before I download them with Thunderbird. I download messages over POP3, filter to folders (one per person or customer) and backup as any other file. I don't use IMAP because I don't want to leave my email on my email provider servers. Again, concerns, but overall this seems like actually pretty good news. I'm a little bit hesitant about my primary email client on my phone entering an experimental phase where its interface is going to change a lot. I use K-9 today, and I would like to see K-9 get more resources and to get more parity with other clients. So with any acquisition there's some cause for caution, but overall I am inclined to be pretty optimistic about this. The main difference being that K-9 is not independent now, the companies that do this with Blender don't end up owning Blender. It doesn't seem that conceptually different from what companies do with products like Blender, where sponsoring more development on an existing product is better than rolling an in-house version. That seems to me like about the best acquisition goal that they could have - basically saying, "what exists is good, instead of building our own thing let's just pour resources into what exists." Thunderbird isn't acquiring K-9 to kill it or merge with an additional product, they're buying it so they can increase its development speed and then put their name on it.
I get skeptical about acquisitions, but from what I can tell this actually seems like decent news.
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