Hello List, i feel the time has come to find a more up-to-date replacement for my email-solution, but ...
Up til now, i am using Thunderbird (52.9.1 (64-Bit) + Enigmail + ToneQuilla + Virtual Identity and more ...) on stretch from inside a Virtualbox-VM. That allowed to correspond seamlessly with GPG users on more than 20 addresses (from 6 different providers), while i was acoustically notified about the different levels of relevance of those mails, since 20+ years. (makes a huge database) While keeping this stuff alive for an extended period of time, i have been able to prevent the necessity to enter any passphrase manually, to decrypt/encrypt automatically, and many more convenient solutions to ease my life. Of course, i knew, that this could come to an end, but i have not found a valid replacement yet. The current Thunderbird fails big time at solving the GPG part, even worse: They (Mozilla/NSA/???) want to have control over private keys in their own keystore, built by people obviously not skilled enough to create a(ny) secure piece of software. That is why i refused to embark on the path of replacing the isolated, but integrated solution Enigmail with something less trustworthy, less flexible, and less stable. But i feel, i will have to start building up an alternative, could not yet make up my mind. That is why i am asking for your communities experience and recommendations. How are YOU dealing with encryption, with multiple providers, with addresses created on-the-fly, with a huge email history, and so on? Really interested to find a solution, that can last for many years to come. regards, DdB