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, @09:19PM
Ugh PGP... the whole "web of trust" thing is a pain. How about Thunderbird just spins up a CA that only signs S/MIME certs (since Letsencrypt refuses to do it) and include the root cert in Thunderbird. No identity verification, just that the cert requester has control of the email address. Make getting a cert part of the new account configuration wizard process and done.