I think, it's really good, that @thunderbird integrated GnuPG, but it's really annoying, that I still have to manually disable encryption, when I write an e-mail to a contact, who doesn't use GPG (which are unfortunately still quite a few).
In that regard #Enigmail worked a lot better.

#GnuPG #Email #Encryption #Mozilla #Thunderbird

@egnun
@thunderbird
Thunderbird 115 includes new settings that you could use to get the behavior you prefer. Go to global settings (not account settings), privacy&security, scroll to the bottom, section "Email End-To-End-Encryption, Automatic Use of Encryption". There are three checkboxes, set them as you prefer.
(And just to clarify, while Thunderbird integrated OpenPGP compatible encryption, it usually doesn't use GnuPG, only can optionally use GnuPG for some operations.)

@kaiengert @egnun @thunderbird Appreciate the GnuPG integration but the main reason I've never used TB is that it lacks native support for configuring external text editor. There's some addons but they really are not really in production quality. Neither it has a default of using fixed-width font for plain text emails (or I have not found it) so in its current state it is not a great choice for reviewing patches.

@jarkko @egnun @thunderbird

The following works for me to get a fixed width font:

When viewing an email, in the header section, there are buttons labeled "reply, forward, archive" etc. On the right hand side, click the button labeled "more" which opens a menu. Select "message body as, plain text".

If you want to have a fixed width font when composing: Go to account settings, "Composition & Addressing", and ensure "compose messages in HTML format" is not checked.

@kaiengert @egnun @thunderbird

Thanks a bunch. I'm actually going to try these for macOS machines for which would nice to get some GUI email client still capable of responding to LKML messages :-)

If there was really easy and hands-on way to get external editor configuration (built-in, not addon) I would consider switching from Evolution on my Linux machines. Would be nice to have universal and OS-independent GUI for sure.

@jarkko @egnun @thunderbird

Maybe that's a stupid suggestion, but...

Could you simply copy/paste between Thunderbird and your external editor?

If you configure Thunderbird to use plain text (as described in previous toot), I'd hope nothing gets lost?

@kaiengert @egnun @thunderbird

It's what I can do in macOS :-) It is working solution for answering few important emails but would be nice to have something like hitting Ctrl+Shift+E to launch the editor and it would sync up when coming back. There is a plugin for this in Evolution.

E.g. in LKML (not the main list of course but a selection of kernel subsystems) my daily consumption goes at minimum dozens of emails, not uncommon to have 100 emails for one day. In that sort of scenario copy-pasting starts to itch too much...

@kaiengert @egnun @thunderbird

The reason I think this should be a native feature and not addon is this addon for TB:

https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived/wiki

I do not know much about addons (or more like know almost nothing) but this does give a hint that either:

• API for addons should be extended.
• Should be a native feature.

Because having to run external program is a bit too much at least for me. Not too use friendly at least…

@egnun @kaiengert @thunderbird Yeah and not to say that TB is garbage! I use it a lot as a better corporation end point that Outlook :-) So highly regarding the project overally, just not scale everything that I do that's all.