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[...] 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: 5, Informative) by Subsentient on Friday January 04 2019, @08:17PM (5 children)
I use Thunderbird myself. It's a damn good email client, and one of the only good ones left alive.
Claws Mail won't render HTML, Eudora is ancient dog shit that only runs on Windows and old Macs, and Seamonkey's alright I guess, but it's not my cup of tea.
Long live Thunderbird.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @10:51PM
That's a definite plus in my book.
(Score: 1) by Veyrdite on Friday January 04 2019, @11:31PM
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.