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."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @02:09AM
On r/linux, Ryan Lee Sipes:
And he also implied that since Thunderbird is now independent of Mozilla, you can donate to Thunderbird, and not have to worry about Moz://a getting their hands on it and diverting it somewhere else, as happened in the past to donations for Thunderbird.