Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[...] When the Mozilla Foundation decided to turn the email client loose in May 2017, its future looked doubtful, but it's still here and, according to this post by community manager Ryan Sipes, donations are flowing freely enough for Thunderbird to expand its development team.
The current eight personnel are to be expanded to 14, and one of the roles to be resourced is an engineer who will focus on security and privacy.
"The UX/UI around encryption and settings will get an overhaul in the coming year," Sipes wrote.
While he couldn't guarantee that effort making it into the next release, "It is our hope to make encrypting Email and ensuring your private communication easier in upcoming releases."
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 3, Informative) by richtopia on Friday January 04 2019, @08:55PM (2 children)
Same here. Thunderbird is not perfect, but I have yet to find an email client that I find intuitive. Even considering commercial clients, there is very little happening in the email client space, excluding web apps.
I'm still waiting on Vivaldi to include a client and see how they fare, but I doubt the client will be a high priority for them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @09:42PM
why would you be waiting on enslaveware from vivaldi? give me a break.
(Score: 5, Touché) by driverless on Saturday January 05 2019, @03:54AM
And this is the thing that always makes me smile:
It's too small for Mozilla to notice and fuck up. As long as the team stays small and dedicated and below the radar of the great Mozilla fuck-things-up machine, it'll be fine.