Re: Good email clients?

On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:25:44 -0400, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-04-14 03:19, Grant Taylor wrote:

On 4/13/24 18:58, Borax Man wrote:

Thats right, I think enigmail stopped being supported.  Had enigmail
continued to work, I would still be using Thunderbird today.

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Check contemporary Thunderbird.
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I believe Enigmail support was discontinued because it was promoted to
being natively included in Thunderbird.

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No.
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I repeat, TB created their own method, from scratch. Different. They did
not incorporate Enigmail at all.

TB did not create their own method. It uses openpgp. The encryption aspect is
the same as pgp. The keys are handled by a subset of what pgp uses.
A pgp generated key can be used in openpgp.
The difference is that openpgp does not use the chain of trust that pgp uses.
The other thing I don't like about it is that thunderbird asks for the pass phrase
when it starts. It does not require the pass phrase to be re-entered to sign
or dycrypt messages, meaning that an unattended system can be used by anyone with
access to send signed email messages or read stored messages.

Or at least contemporary
Thunderbird has had Enigmail like functionality for a few years now.

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Not Enigmail like at all.
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And about the same time, Mozilla fired many many people, so features
were removed.

That's not why they made the switch. The switch was made to simplify usage
for users who did not know how to generate a key or how to manage the chain
of trust for keys that pgp uses.
The goal was to increase the use of encryption in email at the cost of reduced
security in key management.
Regards, Dave Hodgins