Re: Thunderbird's hints and history for OpenPGP/MIME (new wiki page)

2021-12-02 Thread Dr. Peter Voigt
Hi Bernhard,

thanks for that page. I'm not using Thunderbird but I know many people
who do. In particular the option to turn off the annoying dots is very
useful.

I'm going to spread the link at least in our association and between
friends and colleagues. Did you toot the link through Mastodon as well
- I just failed to find and re-toot a correspondig content.

Regards,
Peter


On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 09:57 +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hi,
> just compiled a new wiki page with history and hints 
> about using Thunderbird with OpenPGP/MIME.
> 
>   https://wiki.gnupg.org/EMailClients/Thunderbird
> 
> Mainly I've used information from the email list,
> but it also adds a conclusion how to deal with subject lines
> of email.
> 
> Let me know how you like it. 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
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Re: Why are 64-bit libraries not included in GnuPG but Gpg4win?

2021-12-02 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Mittwoch 01 Dezember 2021 01:19:45 schrieb Sven Richter via Gnupg-users:
> As the title states, why are there no 64-bit libraries in GnuPG for
> Windows? (The installer from the binary releases)

I don't know (but I respond with hints and repeat the question as HTML emails 
are filtered out by some participants.)

> It's not like they don't 
> exist at all but they are part of Gpg4win only. Shouldn't they be included
> directly in the core part? Why are they "moved out" to Gpg4win? It seems
> weird to me that I would have to install gpg4win just to get hold of some
> 64-bit libraries for GnuPG.

Gpg4win is an official GnuPG distribution for Windows
and it is possible to customise the installation to mainly install GnuPG.
Overal I believe this maybe an oversight, maybe you should file an issue with
dev.gnupg.org.

> The fact that I'm already using Thunderbird 64-bit. As many will know,
> Enigmail isn't much of a thing anymore. But I don't really trust that new
> OpenPGP.js implementation they have now,

As far as I know Thunderbird 78+ uses RNP/Botan, and not OpenPGP.js.

> I rather use my existing setup. No 
> problem, there is a setting just for this in Thunderbird after all, simply
> set mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg = true. Except that this got me vague
> error messages.I'll spare everybody any long explanations but as hinted the
> issue seemingly was my 64-bit client. After hours of work I ended up having
> to install Gpg4win, copy the 64-bit libraries over and deinstall it again.

Thanks for reporting that this worked fine for you after the right setup!

> Luckily the libraries work despite Gpg4win 3.1.16 containing only GnuPG
> 2.2.28, while I'm already using GnuPG 2.3.3, still seems questionable
> though.This brought me to the question above: Why are the 64-bit libraries
> only in Gpg4win? Why does GnuPG not come with 64-bit libraries in the first
> place? I can't imagine that I'm the only or first one using GnuPG and
> wanting it to work with 64-bit software.

Most people use Gpg4win, only recently we had to recommed to install
the crypto engine installers over it. So thanks for reporting the issue!

Best Regards,
Bernhard

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Thunderbird's hints and history for OpenPGP/MIME (new wiki page)

2021-12-02 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi,
just compiled a new wiki page with history and hints 
about using Thunderbird with OpenPGP/MIME.

  https://wiki.gnupg.org/EMailClients/Thunderbird

Mainly I've used information from the email list,
but it also adds a conclusion how to deal with subject lines
of email.

Let me know how you like it. 

Regards,
Bernhard

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