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I found out today that @thunderbird doesn't let you easily send pgp encrypted e-mail to an address if the imported key does not match the recipients address exaclty. A lot of people use the same keypair for two or more e-mails or sometimes there isn't an email at all associated with imported key which makes encrypted e-mail troublesome.

There is a solution but seems rather hacky workaround to being able to send using the imported public key with a warning popup or similar.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/o…

#thunderbird #pgp #openpgp #encryption #email #e2ee #privacy

This entry was edited (2 weeks ago)
in reply to RED5HADES

Thanks for the feedback on this! We forwarded this to our desktop team, and we're very keen to explore how to improve encryption-related issues.