Open/start screen for K9

There are a lot of us that want K9 to open to the list of email accounts.

This was the way that K9 could be opened up until the start of this decade.

When the previous developer changed this at the start of this decade, the 5 star app turned into a 2 or 1 star app.

If Thunderbird brings back the ability to open K9 to the list of email accounts, K9 will return to a 5 star app within days.

This doesn’t need to be the only way to open K9. Just add an option in Settings, just like being able to open at a Unified list or not.

If Thunderbird look at the K9 app reviews from around 2021, you will see when the 5 star rating crashed due to the new UI, which removed the ability to open at the list of email accounts.

If you use a 32 bit phone, look for Open Mail, which has the UI that had the 5 star rating, being able to open at a list of email accounts.

Over to you, Thunderbird.

Yep, still using K-9 Mail , version 5.600 due to complete ignorance of dev(s) to bring back things way it was.

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This sounds like an interesting idea, I know users have different preferences when loading the app. On the other hand, we don’t want to overload the app with too many settings. I think there are enough different needs so that users won’t immediately bring the ratings back to 5 stars for this one feature though. The current average rating is higher than back before the 5.807 release :slight_smile:

For enhancement suggestions like this, would you mind posting them over on Mozilla Connect? This is a great place for the community to discuss and help shape ideas together, and is something we review regularly to determine the future roadmap.

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Looking forward to seeing your idea there, this will help find out how well received a change like this would be.

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The removal of this feature which is why so many dudes using K9 was the core (only) reason for the rating to crash. All of us using K9 at the time know about this.

As for K9 having a better star rating from 2021 is so easy. So many others came to K9 after the rating crash and didn’t know how good K9 was for multi account users. But K9 rating has never got back to where is was back in those days.

I have posted on Moz Connect but that isn’t the best place for K9 ideas. K9 stuff gets drowned out by all other Moz programs.

I am still using K9 hoping it will become a great app again eventually, but I am constantly being frustrated by the awkward interface for multiple email accounts.

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