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I've been using K-9 for a while, works great, didn't realise it was related to thunderbird.
Mozilla hired the dev, and K9 will be renamed to Thunderbird next month.
Interesting.
One or two years ago Mozilla hired the main developer of K-9 Mail. The dev previously raised enough donations to work on K-9 Mail for a while and modernize it after not having an official release for years.
Same. At some point had jumped on librem mail as it had forked k9 to update the interface, but have been back for a few years now.