β² @sheogorath@microblog.shivering-isles.com: You might already heard it: Thunderbird 78 will bring native OpenPGP support.
While this sounds great, the reason is the deprecation of the Addons API that makes extensions like Enigmail possible.
Apart from that, the history of OpenPGP support with Thunderbird is rather sad:
lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupβ¦
TL;DR: there were at least 3 attempts to work on native OpenPGP support declined by a policy that says: S/MIME onlyβ¦
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