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posted by mrpg on Friday January 04 2019, @08:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the uy788*++ç+´] dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday January 04 2019, @09:30PM (2 children)

    by Subsentient (1111) on Friday January 04 2019, @09:30PM (#782243) Homepage Journal

    Jesus Christ, I'd have drop kicked Thunderbird if it did that to me. Thankfully it uses only a little over 200MB for me.

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday January 05 2019, @01:29AM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Saturday January 05 2019, @01:29AM (#782348)

    Similar.

    I have it using 350mb right now on linux. With 6 different email accounts and up to 10 years of old email in some of those accounts.

    Honestly, I hate the UI/UX now and it seems to get worse every new version. I would drop Thunderbird in a second, if something could handle my email accounts so well.

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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday January 05 2019, @04:06AM

      by driverless (4770) on Saturday January 05 2019, @04:06AM (#782392)

      My mail app is using 3MB, and that's to hold my entire mailbox in memory.

      That's /bin/mail. If it was good enough for Ken, Dennis, and Brian, it's good enough for me. And, as others have pointed out, the lack of support for HTML is a bonus.