If this supports JMAP (I hope so since its aimed to be a Thundermail client) then I'll give this a whirl with my Fastmail account

I am almost certain that the only reason (feature) I have Thunderbird desktop installed has no place in this iOS app – an editable FROM field. I am pretty sure of that.

Ah, just saw the coolest thing - an epic subheading:

> Designed for growth

Love it. There's no stopping this app now. Godspeed, Mozila/Thunderbird! Grow is the new word.

    If your e-mail provider supports it, Customize From Address allows you to make a one-off minor alteration to your From address without having to create a new identity in Account Settings. For example, if your From address is John Doe <john@example.com> you may want to change it to John Doe <john+doe@example.com> or John <john@example.com>.

I was using Thunderbird on Android for years and keep using it on Linux, but it aged rather poorly.

Search is completely useless, it never-ever finds anything. Threads are supported, but their functionality is not configurable so whenever I lazily click on the complete thread (instead of opening it, scrolling down to the last item and clicking on it directly) it opens every message of the thread. Really nice functionality for large threads with 60+ emails!

So I am a bit skeptical why on earth they would increase their coverage when the already supported platforms lack decent UX.

But why? What's the USP here?

Maybe there's a demand for a more feature-rich mail client on iOS, perhaps syncing accounts and filters from the desktop app. But this doesn't seem to be that, at least not at this point.

The Mail app that comes with iOS is plenty.

I don't get why Mozilla's designs are so ugly. It's 2026, everyone has beautiful designs and some browsers (Arc, Dia) are so gorgeous you don't want to work with anything else. And then this not-even-released mail app looks like old Bootstrap web apps. I used to love Mozilla for having some of the most beautiful designs. The era of Forefox OS and Firefox 4 with their beautiful beautiful designs and then they said no; threw out that beautiful dinosaur logo for whatever this ugly pointless one is and now look at their software. My eyes hurt for the amount of design problems in Firefox. Okay you made a bad one, at least start something new correctly.

Suggest keeping "A first look" in the title for clarity that this isn't a full release

Title: Thunderbird for iOS: A First Look

why do people use Thunderbird in general? i never found a use for it. now that there's IOS app, maybe.

i feel i could die waiting for this. i am 54.

apparently that is a native iOS application, I wonder whether they tried to use KMP to use same codebase with the android app

But can it do IRC?

It's been 14 years since I reported you can't search for "wedding" in Bugzilla, have they ever fixed it, they hadn't last time I checked:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844

(The bug is they do 'clever matching', so wedding matches weds, and too many emails you weds for wednesday, you can't say 'just show the word I ask you for')

I don’t understand people complaining about Firefox UI. It barely exists. There’s a url bar with some buttons in each side. If you use vertical tabs, another bar with tiny icons for each tab.

There’s so little chrome I can’t find any fault in it. It’s just grey, out of the way, as it should be.

Edit: https://imgur.com/a/1I4gG22 tell me where the bad/ugly UI is.

Remember when Mozilla did a huge rebrand that introduced a new logo many people actually loved for its ingenuity, styling their name as moz://a? [1] And then, not very long after, they did another rebrand that resulted in… whatever they’ve got now? [2] Taking a step forward and then two steps back seems like a very Mozilla thing to do.

  [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/arrival/
  [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

Looking at the screenshots, I don’t have a problem with the aesthetics of the UI, but with how it’s wasting a lot of space. It feels like we could see more content on a small 4” smartphone screen 15 years ago: https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/R... (and that already felt a bit wasteful back then, where a different layout could almost double the number of items visible at once)

You know what? We also have people complaining about the new Firefox UI redesign, which is exactly the whitespace-heavy style you found in Arc or Dia.

> some browsers (Arc, Dia) are so gorgeous

With all due respect, what a low bar for beauty!

They're tools. I expect BM 085232, not the Book of Kells.

Zen is delightful to use, and based on Firefox. I just don't get what's going on at Mozilla.

was wondering the same. Mozilla seems out of touch

I don't care for the Material Design, even when Google did/does it.

To parent commenter, "beautiful design" just means "AI powered browser".

A quick glance at their product and its literally just a clone/fork of chrome/chromium with AI-pilled features.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" holds true.