Goodbye K-9 Mail

TL;DR: I quit my job working on Thunderbird for Android and K-9 Mail at MZLA. My personal journey with K-9 Mail started in late 2009, shortly after getting my first Android device. The pre-installed Email app didn’t work very well with my email provider. When looking for alternatives, I discovered K-9 Mail. It had many of the same issues. But it was an active open source project that accepted contributions. I started fixing the problems I was experiencing and contributed these changes to K-9 Mail. It was a very pleasant experience and so I started fixing bugs reported by other users. In February 2010, Jesse Vincent, the founder of the K-9 Mail project, offered me commit access to the Subversion repository. According to my email archive, I replied with the following text: Thank you! I really enjoyed writing patches for K-9 and gladly accept your offer. But I probably won’t be able to devote as much time to the project as I do right now for a very long time. I hope that’s not a big pr ... Read full article.