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Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:24:53 GMT

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!

Help Us Test!

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:

September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android
Third week of October – first release candidate
Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release

Download the Beta Image

Below are the options for where you can download with Beta and get started:

Download Thunderbird Beta on the Google Play Store
Download the latest pre-release version from our Github Releases page

We are still working on preparing F-Droid builds. In the meanwhile, please make use of the other two download mechanisms.

Use the Testing Checklist

Once you’ve downloaded the Thunderbird for Android beta, we’d like you to check that you can do the following:

Automatic Setup (user only provides email address and maybe password)
Manual Setup (user provides server settings)
Read Messages
Fetch Messages
Switch accounts
Move email to folder
Notify for new message
Edit drafts
Write message
Send message
Email actions: reply, forward
Delete email
NOT experience data loss

Test the K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android Transfer

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.

What we’re not testing

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.

Where to Give Feedback

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.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

wutongtaiwan — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:37:35 GMT

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

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:47:14 GMT

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!

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

lovelyjubbly — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:27:49 GMT

@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.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:45:40 GMT

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!

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

wutongtaiwan — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:50:00 GMT

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

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

macharp — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:44:24 GMT

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. .

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:29:50 GMT

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

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:32:49 GMT

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!

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

ThePillenwerfer — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:11:14 GMT

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.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

umarmalik — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:07:52 GMT

Exciting to see the Thunderbird for Android beta launch! It’s great that the community can help shape its development.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:39:27 GMT

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.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

onequest — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:46:15 GMT

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?

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:50:44 GMT

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!)

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

wsmwk — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:58:57 GMT

@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/highlight/true#M28073

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

onequest — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:24:50 GMT

Amazing! Thank you!!

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

Var-Pro-12 — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:47:25 GMT

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.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

MonicaAyhensMad — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:41:00 GMT

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!

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

Var-Pro-12 — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:00:02 GMT

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.

Re: Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta!

wsmwk — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 02:24:48 GMT

@Var-Pro-12 please file bugs at https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues.

Thanks