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. -- `Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful'. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion. Registered Linux User: 554515
