Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Henson Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.thunderbird Subject: Re: GPG integration Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 10:22:29 +0100 Organization: Home Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <1021u62$36ia4$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net e7lCIBvGPAcRjB5iO/b7HgsoQycMDn1LDWk2v+VqYUxD3nASiT Cancel-Lock: sha1:VyRRY4clxVpXPGLEMARQTqMFXBs= sha256:k940J0w6P5AB40zr/dlnM3gwXgAYv8bqYPYiGtRcEhM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <1021u62$36ia4$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.thunderbird:16890 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. -- Tetbury, Gloucestershirel, UK The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.