Re: [Enigmail] Using a specific subkey in Enigmail

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jan 2020 19:24:01 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
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john doe wrote on 03.01.2020 19:18:
> On 1/3/2020 7:05 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> john doe wrote on 03.01.2020 18:43:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have multiple subkeys on my GPG key and I'm not finding a way to let
>>> enigmail  use a specific subkey.
>>>
>>>
>>> What's the best way to use enigmail with subkey?
>>
>> Enigmail does not support that.
>>
> 
> Okay, so to use enigmail, only one subkey for the sign capability and
> one subkey for the encrypt capability is allowed.

No, that's not what I said. You can't /select/ a /specific/ subkey with
Enigmail. Everything else is fully supported. I.e. gpg chooses an
appropriate subkey for whatever operation is performed.

> Is there any plan to add this functionality to enigmail?

No.

> What is the state of subkey with regard to Thunderbird when support for
> GPG will be built-in?

Same.

-Patrick

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