Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?
On 05-07-2020 07:38, Tom Dial wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
> wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in
> Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not
> support Enigmail. The new version also appears to have no obvious way to
> import openpgp keys, and it appears the developers do not plan to
> support that, at least for secret and signed public keys, nor any
> intention to adhere to the "Web of Trust" infrastructure. I still have
> TB 68 on the Debian machines, but expect that will go away by Bullseye
> release, since Mozilla's support for it apparently will end late this year.
Interesting!
I'm using 68.9.0 (64 bit) Thunderbird on SID and all those features work
just fine, for now.
Enigmail _is_ going, but will be replaced by OpenPGP, and S/MIME has
always been available, and will continue to be.
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