Following my previous email about my new GPG key, I decided to give thunderbird a change since I've been using (neo)mutt for a long time. I love neomutt and it's very efficient and powerful. I don't know if I'll stick with thunderbird, but thought it would be good to gave it a fair shot. I'm not going to talk about how to install or configure thunderbird, I'm just going to highlight here what I had to do to manage my gpg key for email encryption with thunderbird. This page also assume that you have already created your gpg keys. Important thing to note: thunderbird can either use its internal GPG key support or it can be configured to use an external gnupg installation. I choose the later and not the built-in support. If you want to use thunderbird included gpg support, this page is not for you :). To enable external GnuPG support in Thunderbird, go to the config editor (at the bottom of the thunderbird settings page) and earch for Then, go to the account settings you want to configure and click on the
Introduction
Configuration
mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg and set its value to true.End-To-End En