The primary objective is to be able to send encrypted email, digitally sign email, decrypt received email, verify the correctness of digitally signed email, and to provide this functionality in a secure, compatible, interoperable and user friendly way. We are happy that Patrick Brunschwig, who has been developing and maintaining the Enigmail Add-on for many years, has offered to assist the Thunderbird development team. The Thunderbird 68.x branch, which will be actively maintained until autumn 2020, will be the last versions that supports Enigmail.Īs a replacement for Enigmail, the Thunderbird team intends to develop new, integrated support for OpenPGP messaging, and plans to make it available in the Thunderbird 78 release that is planned for summer 2020. Enigmail requires the use of extension mechanisms, which will no longer be available in future versions of the Mozilla platform.
Thunderbird extends the Mozilla software platform that is primarily used for the Firefox browser.
The Enigmail Add-on for Thunderbird has made it possible to use the external GnuPG software for OpenPGP messaging. Thunderbird has been offering built-in support for S/MIME, and will continue to do so. Two popular technologies exist that add support for end-to-end encryption and digital signatures to email. OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 (summer 2020 release) Background
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