That's nice. Maybe I'll use this instead of the mail app, since it's not that good

Our goal is to have a first version ready for community testing in the next few months.

That would be a really useful feature but afaik it doesn't exist. my archive looks exactly like yours, except I just finished moving mine from local folders to a local self-hosted imap server (to make my offline archive accessible to all my devices). maybe you should submit a feature request to mozilla. auto-folderized by sender would sure be handy.

Yes, search in the android app does not work for me either.

Sorry, I meant the Android app! Edited to add that in...

Search isn't great, but also - there is more than one search function.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-search

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-searching

Ctrl + K for Global, Ctrl + Shift + K for Local, and Ctrl + Shift + F for Advanced.

Well, fuck. I was just using it the other day and be damned if I could find "body" in the list. I must have been sleepy.

You can though?

Utterly. Can't even search in message body.

i have one user with a local mail store going back over two decades. she searches mails all the time and has only once had a problem 'finding' something.. which turned out to not be in there in the first place, as it was in a different account only on her phone - thunderbird wasn't configured for it.

It's gotten much shittier recently, yes. It used to work better.

Much like all search, really.

Oh. Yes, fully agreed! And even the benevolent can still get hacked by malicious forces...

I ageee that foss is the way to go generally, my point is more don’t blindly trust foss to be altruistic. A devs gotta eat and sometimes that (foolishly) becomes engagement with the ad machine monster (especially given donations are often overlooked)

Sure, but the general principle is that it's easier to find goodness in FOSS than badness. Like you said with the forks, life, uh, finds a way; I use Firefox forks Waterfox and Floorp. I use Linux Mint, a cleaned Ubuntu derivative. How many for-profit equivalents are better? What is the percentage? Consider all FOSS offline games, for example. There is true heart in this stuff.

Unless/until it’s acquired like audacity or simplemobiletools (which tbf was forked into fossify without the ad garbage). Then there’s just the poor decisions of major projects like Firefox. Even Ubuntu like a decade ago had a brief period where it served amazon ads and integrated with facebook/twitter for user data sharing, though they quickly walked that back because users were furious

... except in FOSS! 😍 You are absolutely not the product nor paying with Syncthing, etc.

Proton bridge is required for external apps and only with paid accounts

Remember if you’re not paying you’re the product

Yeah... forget it, then. PurchaseWithPurpose.io seems to have some better email providers...

I've only ever read that their external mailservers are only accessible by paying customers.

@thunderbird Fixed the misttypes

@breadsmasher @1024Bytes Don't make fun of someone that is slightly dyslectic and not an English speaking native. Not nice.

drunk posting about .. an email client?

No Idea. I suspect they'll pull support (if they haven't already) and just let it be. I'm sure there is a constituency K9 stans that don't want to switch to thunderbird.

Do you know if K-9 Mail is going to remain it's own thing next to Thunderbird for Android? I still see it on F-Droid.