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Re: GPG integration

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On 7/6/25 6:50 pm, Daniel Brandes wrote:
> Dear Thunderbird community,
> 
> while I used to employ GnuPG's GPGtools implementation on OSX/macOS
> (which integrates with Mail.app), I recently switched to TB and would
> like to make use of it's internal key management. I don't find it too
> convenient – e.g. lack of key shortcuts – but manually importing would
> be way more of a hassle.
> 
> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to sync with the existing database, and
> retrieving new keys by --import solely writes to GnuPG.
> 
> Is there any workaround or tool to combine them? Not being an expert,
> I'm wondering whether interference between the two could even be
> relevant security wise.
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help!
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 

Sadly, when Thunderbird decided to include encryption within the program 
itself, it only added a very limited subset of what was previously 
available using the Enigmail extension. However, I too wonder how many 
key pairs you have that you cannot just import them into Thunderbird? If 
you have a huge number of public keys and want to keep them rather thank 
pick them up again and automatically as you correspond with those 
people, then why not export them to a file from your old set-up and 
import them to Thunderbird from that file. As far as I know (I haven't 
bothered with it much), you won't be able to get maximum benefit from 
cross-signings etc anyway as Thunderbird's implementation is too dumbed 
down.

Like Vanguard, after umpteen years of emailing, I've only ever had one 
correspondent that who used GnuPG, so I revoked all my keys ages back. 
When I returned to Thunderbird with new email addresses I did generate 
two new keys for old time's sake, but no-one has ever used them, so I 
have never needed to try importing groups of keys. It should be easy 
enough though.

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GPG integration Daniel Brandes <dbs@brandes.xyz> - 2025-06-07 19:50 +0200
  Re: GPG integration D <J@M> - 2025-06-08 00:35 +0200
    Re: GPG integration Daniel Brandes <dbs@brandes.xyz> - 2025-06-08 16:24 +0200
  Re: GPG integration VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-06-07 23:13 -0500
    Re: GPG integration Daniel Brandes <dbs@brandes.xyz> - 2025-06-08 17:52 +0200
  Re: GPG integration Bob Henson <bob.henson@outlook.com> - 2025-06-08 10:22 +0100
  Re: GPG integration D <J@M> - 2025-06-08 18:26 +0200
  Re: GPG integration D <noreply@dirge.harmsk.com> - 2025-06-08 23:16 -0400

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