This is fantastic news all around! I recall the K-9 developer needing additional funding in the past, so this is great news for that project [0]. In addition,

This is fantastic news all around! I recall the K-9 developer needing additional funding in the past, so this is great news for that project [0]. In addition, I'd much rather use "thunderbird" on mobile as an extension of K9, since it has thus far been my favourite mobile client. Work in the most recent years has been wonderful, and it's a pleasure to use (although I've vastly cut down on mail on mobile because hey, a keyboard is better). Overall, this seems like it makes a lot of sense. Hopefully this will mean that the shift to supporting a mobile client won't detract from the good stuff desktop Thunderbird is doing as well. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131509