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How did the K9 project never talked about this? Its public since 2 years or so that Thunderbird announced they are working on rebranding K9 as Thunderbird.
I'm not sure, if I'm misunderstanding, but the K9 devs definitely talked about it: https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird
Edit: My bad English. I tried to rephrase this reply.
But the blog post is 2 years old and not part of the application. Since then new users started using the app. Most people don't read blog posts, if nothing big changes. Was there never a popup message, in example after a regular update, to inform about upcoming huge changes? So that people do not get surprised. The app description should have this information very clear and prominently on the top. No current user should be in a position that the app changes like this.
Ah, yeah, I don't think there was anything in the app. I guess, they could've mentioned it in the changelog, which gets shown in the app by default after an update.
But yeah, I think we'll have to excuse a bit of a bumpy ride here. I know, it says "Mozilla" on there now, but to my knowledge, it's still just the one core dev...