Mozilla Thunderbird and Crypto

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:07:47AM -0500, Matthew Carpenter took 19 lines to write:
> Hi all,
> Sorry to take us a little off topic, but has anyone else tried the new 
> Mozilla Thunderbird?

I'm experimenting with it at work.

> I am trying to get Encrpytion and Signing working, but am finding that 
> they do not support GPG/PGP.
> Am I whacked?  It's looking for a PKCS#12 certificate file (*.p12 or 
> *.pfx).  Am I missing something?

Evidently, PGP and GnuPG are not (yet) supported:
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.12

> Do I have to jump through some stupid hoops I never did before?  Is this 
> to try to make Thunderbird similar on Windows and Linux?

That's what's happened with Firefox...

Kurt
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