Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-12-06 Thread Simon Walter
On 11/6/20 11:08 AM, Simon Walter wrote: > I updated another field/site laptop yesterday and noticed (again) that > TB was not updated passed 68. My heart was glad. > > I want to thank the Devuan maintainers for making these kind of sane > choices. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Well, it was ac

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-11-05 Thread Simon Walter
I updated another field/site laptop yesterday and noticed (again) that TB was not updated passed 68. My heart was glad. I want to thank the Devuan maintainers for making these kind of sane choices. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-29 Thread John Crisp via Dng
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:47:29 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting John Crisp via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > [snip much-appreciated picture of behind-the-scenes management > folderol at Thunderbird Project:] > Thanks ;-) I have an alter ego that is on some lists as this ego (!) got banned some y

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-29 Thread Dimitris T. via Dng
Adam Borowski wrote: > -- and it's exclusively the former group that uses GPG. Thus, crap support > in Thunderbird is not a problem for me -- I have yet to see a GPG-signed > piece of mail. > not really... 15-20 years ago while working for a bank edp/it dpt, PGP was required almost for half the

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 02:46:37PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > On 2020-10-28 07:47, Rick Moen wrote: > > I continue to like projects that are limited in feature scope enough to > > not live or die by corporate underwriting. E.g., mutt continues to be > > maintainable by a small group of motivated

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-28 08:20, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Dimitris T. via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > >> still recommending TB to clients/people though... > > In case it's useful, I keep a list of all known MUAs for Linux, here: > http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/muas.html > Necessary disclaimer: As anyone

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-10-28 07:47, Rick Moen wrote: ... > I continue to like projects that are limited in feature scope enough to > not live or die by corporate underwriting. E.g., mutt continues to be > maintainable by a small group of motivated developers. When I want it > to be graphical, I run it in an xte

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Mark Rousell
On 27/10/2020 22:47, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting John Crisp via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > [snip much-appreciated picture of behind-the-scenes management > folderol at Thunderbird Project:] > >> The problem is decent alternatives are not great [...] > Just in case people have lost track of this,

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Mark Rousell
Well said to all of that. On 26/10/2020 17:10, John Crisp via Dng wrote: > > (why DID they need to make it TB > corporation and for not a NFP?). As far as I am aware, this question has not been answered in public (although it could simply be that it was the least-friction way forward). The corpo

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Bernard Rosset via Dng
It seems we're drifting away from the main subject. Count me in! Of course, my own way of eliminating GMail problems is: Don't use GMail, and you thereby magically avoid GMail problems. ;-> It's 2020. Snowden leaks started in 2013. . (Also, it seems to be stylized as Gmail, not GMail) It's

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread marc
Hello > I believe you mean (specifically) cut off from access to GMail > send/receive access by GMail users, as an alternative to using GMail's > proprietary WebUI. Yes, that's very strongly my understanding, too. > > Of course, my own way of eliminating GMail problems is: Don't use > GMail, an

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-27 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Lars Nood??n via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Google appears to be doing what it can to cut off not only MUAs like ^^ > Thunderbird but also competing mail providers. ^^^ I believe you mean (specifically) cut o

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-27 Thread Lars Noodén via Dng
On 10/28/20 12:47 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting John Crisp via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > [snip much-appreciated picture of behind-the-scenes management > folderol at Thunderbird Project:] > >> The problem is decent alternatives are not great [...] > > Just in case people have lost track of

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-27 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dimitris T. via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > still recommending TB to clients/people though... In case it's useful, I keep a list of all known MUAs for Linux, here: http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/muas.html Necessary disclaimer: As anyone who's ever kept alive over decades a complex Web p

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-27 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting John Crisp via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): [snip much-appreciated picture of behind-the-scenes management folderol at Thunderbird Project:] > The problem is decent alternatives are not great [...] Just in case people have lost track of this, the long-term nub of the problem is: revenue mo

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/26/20 5:07 AM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: forgot to mention seamonkey (https://www.seamonkey-project.org/). -- also these days, webmail/nextcloud can be used as groupware too, with calendars/contacts included.. webmail gpg support is very rare (for a pretty good reason imo), but mailpile ca

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-26 Thread John Crisp via Dng
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 01:15:47 + Mark Rousell wrote: > On 25/10/2020 18:20, Ludovic Bellière wrote: > > Hello Mark, it seems that you are highly concerned with the path > > Thunderbird is taking for the future. Might I suggest to you, and > > everyone following this exchange for that matter, to

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-26 Thread Ludovic Bellière
Keep in mind that there are other interests at play, the "leadership" has to content with your requests and other's. The one thing that annoys me is the handling of OpenPGP and keys. I cannot update my keys nor sync them with the ones present on my system. Which is highly annoying since I sign my

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-25 Thread Mark Rousell
On 25/10/2020 18:20, Ludovic Bellière wrote: > Hello Mark, it seems that you are highly concerned with the path > Thunderbird is taking for the future. Might I suggest to you, and > everyone following this exchange for that matter, to head over the [tb- > planning][1] mailing list. It's purpose is

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-25 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 10/25/20 10:07 PM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: but mailpile can be used instead correction: mailvelope (https://www.mailvelope.com/en) OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailingli

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-25 Thread Dimitris via Dng
forgot to mention seamonkey (https://www.seamonkey-project.org/). -- also these days, webmail/nextcloud can be used as groupware too, with calendars/contacts included.. webmail gpg support is very rare (for a pretty good reason imo), but mailpile can be used instead... d On 10/25/20 9:56 AM

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-25 Thread Ludovic Bellière
Hello Mark, it seems that you are highly concerned with the path Thunderbird is taking for the future. Might I suggest to you, and everyone following this exchange for that matter, to head over the [tb- planning][1] mailing list. It's purpose is to, quote: 1. *Offer an easy, transparent venue for

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-25 Thread Mark Rousell
On 25/10/2020 06:33, Simon Walter wrote: > On 10/25/20 7:20 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: >> >> The reason for this change is that Thunderbird is deprecating all its >> old addons (the entire ecosystem) and Enigmail won't work on the new >> Thunderbird. It's less than satisfactory. > > Yes, I understand

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-25 Thread Dimitris T. via Dng
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey, On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 15:25 +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > > I am particularly interested in a "groupware" type of solution. I am > > currently using SOGo. I am not stuck on that though. Things like > CalDAV, > > CardDAV, etc., are useful fo

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/25/20 7:20 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 23/10/2020 08:04, Simon Walter wrote: Has any of you TB users (assuming there are any here} done this migration? How is the new shiny? Is it fine? Shall I forget about TB? Any suggestions of what could replace it? I'm not in a hurry to do it. I want

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/24/20 7:03 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..heh, I've used Claws for over 18 years now, ever since it was known as Sylpheed version 0.7.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu), never really looked back, it's email the way email was meant to be. :o) Oh it's Sylpheed. I used that at one time when I ha

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Simon Walter
On 10/23/20 7:27 PM, Dimitris via Dng wrote: On 10/23/20 10:04 AM, Simon Walter wrote: Has any of you TB users (assuming there are any here} done this migration? How is the new shiny? Is it fine? Shall I forget about TB? Any suggestions of what could replace it? yes it works, but not witho

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Mark Rousell
On 23/10/2020 15:44, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > >> Has any of you TB users (assuming there are any here} done this migration? >> How is the new shiny? Is it fine? Shall I forget about TB? Any suggestions >> of what could replace it? > Nope. This is the first I've heard of it. One really needs to k

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-24 Thread Mark Rousell
On 23/10/2020 08:04, Simon Walter wrote: > Hi all, > > Yes, I use TB. Please excuse me for living. > > I am wondering how other TB and GPG users are dealing with: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Migration-From-Enigmail > > From what I understand, I now have to maintain two copies of

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:44:37 -0400, fsmithred wrote in message <91d8f15b-eec8-9a76-0aaa-b987fec03...@gmail.com>: > On 10/23/20 3:04 AM, Simon Walter wrote: > > > From what I understand, I now have to maintain two copies of my key > > rings: the regular one and the one *inside* TB. > > > > Hm

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-23 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/23/20 3:04 AM, Simon Walter wrote: > From what I understand, I now have to maintain two copies of my key rings: > the regular one and the one *inside* TB. > Hm.. I was already a little nervous about keeping one copy of the keyring on the hard drive. > > Has any of you TB users (assuming

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-23 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 10/23/20 10:04 AM, Simon Walter wrote: Has any of you TB users (assuming there are any here} done this migration? How is the new shiny? Is it fine? Shall I forget about TB? Any suggestions of what could replace it? yes it works, but not without issues.. you need to install latest enigm

[DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-22 Thread Simon Walter
Hi all, Yes, I use TB. Please excuse me for living. I am wondering how other TB and GPG users are dealing with: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Migration-From-Enigmail From what I understand, I now have to maintain two copies of my key rings: the regular one and the one *inside* T