Dear Stuart Longland, Thank you for your reply.
I think I will be using Mozilla Thunderbird on Linux desktops. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 05:03, Stuart Longland <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:06:03 +0800 > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote: > > > I am using Linux desktops with GUI and GUI mail clients as well. > > > > I understand GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a free and open source > > command line tool. > > > > How do I use it with a GUI mail client to sign and encrypt email > > messages and files? > > I'd have a look for a GnuPG plug-in for your email client. It's not > clear which one you are using. > > I'm using Claws Mail right now, PGP/MIME can be enabled by enabling it > in the plug-ins dialogue. Others like Trojitá, there are similar > options for enabling and configuring GnuPG support. > > For Mozilla Thunderbird, it has its own OpenPGP implementation > built-in, but if you wish, you can (at the moment) tell it to use > GnuPG. An example use case where you might want to do this is if your > OpenPGP keys are stored on a hardware token (Thunderbird's built-in > OpenPGP support doesn't support these tokens yet). > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards says "Use the > Thunderbird config editor (found at the bottom of preferences/options), > and search for mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg. Switch the value to > true." > > Web-based clients: you'll need to look at some sort of browser > extension to enable this feature. > > For just file and message encryption outside of emails, there are > various front-ends for GnuPG if you must use a GUI tool, for example > KDE ships Kleopatra. > -- > Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) > > I haven't lost my mind... > ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users