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Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by mkesper on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:11AM (#25226498)
The real solution is to use gnupg as external program, it's hinted at in the FAQs and a walkthrough is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards#Conf...

Dear Thunderbird developers, if someone uses gnupg assume they want to use gnupg and not some self-cooked, half-working solution.

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Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by Despacito2019 on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:38AM (#25227000)
If you read the article the author mentions that it doesnt work at all,
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Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by mkesper on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:51AM (#25227883)
It works totally for me, sorry. Using a smartcard so Thunderbird doesn't give me another option right now.
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Re:Thunderbird 78.x is great but has issues for advanced PGP... by corty on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:55AM (#25226734)
The "real" solution is broken and does not work at all, it just crashes or hangs thunderbird.

Thunderbird is dead, has been dying for some time. Now that Mozilla is going bancrupt, users should rather look for alternatives and not waste time. Especially on a half-cooked encryption with obvious quality problems causing a possibly huge number of security problems.

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