On 17/09/2020 13.29, Anton Aylward wrote:
Well it works for me Thunderbird 78.2.2 out of
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Restarted T'Bird out of paranoid and tried it in correspondence with a friend who doesn't use Linux. we tried both encrypted and just signed in both directions. It works but it is strange. It is strange in that I never was asked for a passphrase.
It doesn't if you have not set a master password for TB itself, I understand.
It is strange in that the only indication that the message was encrypted or signed is an icon in the top right-hand corner. if you click on the icon you get details and can drill down to see what key is being used. Sending you are not offered a choice of key. My correspondent was surprised at that, so he generated a new key and sent it and I verified it, and peeked to see that, yes, T'Bird knew about it, but next time round T'Bird still insisted on using the oldest signed key. Again not offering me a choice of which key to use.
I haven't tried using the external version of GPG yet.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)