Re: [Enigmail] OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird 77.0b3

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jul 2020 07:53:42 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Bradley D. Thornton wrote on 03.07.2020 04:40:
[...]
>> Enigmail is available for:
> 
>> * Interlink (https://binaryoutcast.com/projects/interlink/), a
>> community-driven product.
> 
> 
>> Interlink is also maintained, but I'm not sure how actively and
>> things like security fixes.
> 
> 
> Okay thanks for that earlier clarification Patrick :)
> 
> Just to be clear, it doesn't matter what I do (allow or disable
> automatic updates). There will be no more support for enigmail in the
> future at all?

As already mentioned several times, I'll continue to support and
maintain Enigmail 2.1.x for Thunderbird 68 for at least 6 months after
the availability of Thunderbird 78. I might extend this for a few more
months, but not more.

> At this point, to continue using enigmail, I've frozen the updates on
> my workstations.

As long as TB 78.2 is not released, there is no need to disable updates.
Otherwise you'll miss security and stability updated for TB 68.

> The latest update to Interlink is a/o 07 June, so  three-ish weeks,
> and twice the previous month. It has Linux support but there is no
> SlackBuild package for Slackware, although that's trivial considering
> they have tarballs for GTK 2&3 at the dev's website.
> 
> I suppose it would be okay to move forward with OpenPGP in
> Thunderbird, but I've been using Enigmail for so long I just feel like
> I would be missing some kewl features that I've come to depend on.
> 
> Maybe some folks on this list could chime in on that last concern of mine?
In TB 78, the feature set will certainly be smaller than in Enigmail.
But you I expect that future versions of Thunderbird will add more
features to OpenPGP.

-Patrick

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