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Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises

posted by mrpg on Friday January 04 2019, @08:02PM   Printer-friendly
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"exec" writes:

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: 1) by Veyrdite on Friday January 04 2019, @11:31PM

    by Veyrdite (6386) on Friday January 04 2019, @11:31PM (#782296)

    When moving from Seamonkey to Thunderbird I had a look at several alternatives, including Claws and Trojita:

    https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/031_browser_loss/#emailclients [halestrom.net]

    Opinion: Claws would be an amazing option if it had even a little bit of HTML's features. Full HTML is wild and uncontrollable; but partial HTML composition (inline images, headings, *B*, _U_ and /i/) could make the software a lot more attractive for the masses without without compromising on security. A full XML/HTML parser wouldn't be needed either, simple features like this need no understanding of nesting or trees.

    I write really long emails with lots of technical pictures and examples strewn throughout. Telling people to "see attached xyz.jpeg" every few paragraphs would be completely game-breaking. As fast and amazing as Claws is it's not an option for me unless I compose the email in an attached document.