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LibreWolf is to Firefox what BetterBird is to Thunderbird? (www.betterbird.eu)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Had never heard of this before today. Anyone tried it?

EDIT: "Being a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, the software collects some data about the user, less than the original Mozilla Thunderbird, as outlined in Thunderbird's privacy statement. No data is submitted to Betterbird, some data may be submitted to Mozilla. No telemetry and no crash reports are submitted, however, add-on updates and blocklists are downloaded from Mozilla sites. Betterbird offers a product Start Page which processes access data as described above."

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hopefully we can get a Betterbird mobile app one day.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Try FairEmail. It's the closest thing I've found.

https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was looking into k-9 mail and it seemed decent

What stuff did you want to have in a mobile app?

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

K-9 mail is literally Thunderbird. It’s been rebranded and taken over by Mozilla. They’re keeping the k-9 branding as its own (otherwise identical) app as a nostalgia token for the people that have used it for a long time.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Will it work with K-9/Thunderbird for Android?

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

What do you mean "work with", it's a different-ass client? Do you mean if it's possible to import settings?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The email servers themselves are separate (ex. Gmail, your school email server, work email server, etc.).

Thunderbird / K9 are clients that let you access the email on your device

So they should all be compatible with each other

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Ok, duh, you're both right of course; late night/early morning brain fart here 🧠💨