From what I've read, PGP for Thunderbird is just a first step. My guess is that they chose the easiest/quickest path for first implementation, but I think we'll

From what I've read, PGP for Thunderbird is just a first step. My guess is that they chose the easiest/quickest path for first implementation, but I think we'll see more facilitation of encrypted email in TBird in time. This makes sense to me. I've been trying to get friends, family and colleagues to encrypt email (hell, even signing would be a step!) for about 3 decades, now, and have basically thrown in the towel. So anything that affords a small toe-hold to begin the painful process of building the necessary network effects for the idea of encrypted email to gain traction is a good thing.