David Flory <li...@theflorys.org> wrote: > How can I force remove it? > (I am getting ready to use the new builtin OpenPGP option that should be > fully available in TB 78)
Iʼm afraid, you are way too optimistic. The timely release of Thunderbird 78 is _not_ going to mean, that itʼs fully ready; only that Mozilla is so successful in its crusade against modularity, that Thunderbird developers are no longer free to choose their own release cycle.
--- Begin Message ---Hello, here is an update on the development of the integrated OpenPGP support.The base functionality is available in 77 Beta 3, but we rate it as experimental, there are still many details that need improvement.Nevertheless, the functionality in Beta 3 should be sufficient for initial experiments.About the base functionality:You may import your existing personal key, or create a new one (no automatism).In the email account settings, you have to configure your personal key to actively use OpenPGP.Received emails will get decrypted and shown with its signature status, and further details are available by clicking the status icons.Relevant for the status is the "acceptance" that has been chosen for the correspondent's public key (or hasn't yet been chosen).The acceptance decision can be made at the time a public key is imported, or at any time in the future using the OpenPGP Key Manager (can be found in the top level Tools menu).After changing the accepance for a key, to see the updated status for an email, it's currently necessary to temporarily switch to another email and then back, to force the update of the shown status for an email.To send an encrypted email, it's necessary to manually enable it for an email. If the user has configured both a personal S/MIME certificate and a personal OpenPGP key, the options inside the composer allow you to select the technology that should be used for the current email.If encryption is enabled for an email, you cannot send the message unless encryption is possible. This means, accepted keys for all recipients must be available.If sending isn't possible, an explanation is shown, and then a dialog opens that helps you to resolve the situation. It will explain the key status for each recipient, and allows the user to resolve the situation.A current overview of the Done and TODO items can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Status Helpful links are here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Thunderbird:OpenPGPAs you know, the Thunderbird release schedule is not flexible, but it's aligned to the schedule of the base Mozilla Firefox ESR platform - to ensure that Thunderbird will get security udpates for the base platform.In my understanding, we currently intend to release Thunderbird 78 in July as planned, regardless of the status of the OpenPGP implementation.We'll try to continue to extend the functionality during May and June.Although usually there's only one feature update per year, I'm hoping that we might be able to include further improvements in the 78.x releases in the months that follow the original 78.0 release.Regards Kai _______________________________________________ tb-planning mailing list tb-plann...@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning
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