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Re: GPG integration

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:50:57 +0200, Daniel Brandes <dbs@brandes.xyz> 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.

don't know, but private-key encryption could be serious enough to learn
more about how popular programs like t-bird could safely use gnupg, etc.
before entrusting its use <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=thunderbird+gnupg>

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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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