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Hi, i'm now using Thunderbird (TB) v68.12.0 (64-bit) on macOS (v10.15.6/Catalina). Even few days earlier in my older TB, sending signed/encrypted email worked fine, but now its not anymore !

Yesterday i updated Thunderbird, as a notice message appeared from running TB, that, a new updated Thunderbird is available. One/few day(s) earlier of upating TB, an earlier notice message appeared from TB, & that showed a new GPG tool is available, so i updated into that. And now sending signed message/email is failing, after updating to TB v68.12.0.

My initial TB on this macOS was v68.8.1, in that, sending/receiving signed or encrypted+signed mails worked fine. Then on July 30 i updated into Thunderbird v68.11.0, and send/receive signed or encrypted+signed mails continued to work fine.

in current TB v68.12.0, after receiving a response message/email from a user, i'm doing these: right click on email > selected "Reply to sender only" > typed in my reply messages > ( Encrypt option icon is in disabled (cross-mark) state, & Sign option icon is enabled (w/green tick mark) , my this destination receiver person does not have a pub key ) > i pressed "Send" button > then i see this error code appears first: Note: sending signed messages to this same user succeeded earlier, (before updating TB).

then email sending stops with below error message:

so i'm showing extra info : screenshot (with private info obscured) of settings: imap settings:

smtp settings:

How to solve & overcome errors ?

i want to send signed msg to others. i want to send encrypted+signed msg to some users.

EDIT: i checked update History in TB, & now added here the last version that i was using.

Hi, i'm now using Thunderbird (TB) v68.12.0 (64-bit) on macOS (v10.15.6/Catalina). Even few days earlier in my older TB, sending signed/encrypted email worked fine, but now its not anymore ! Yesterday i updated Thunderbird, as a notice message appeared from running TB, that, a new updated Thunderbird is available. One/few day(s) earlier of upating TB, an earlier notice message appeared from TB, & that showed a new GPG tool is available, so i updated into that. And now sending signed message/email is failing, after updating to TB v68.12.0. My initial TB on this macOS was v68.8.1, in that, sending/receiving signed or encrypted+signed mails worked fine. Then on July 30 i updated into Thunderbird v68.11.0, and send/receive signed or encrypted+signed mails continued to work fine. in current TB v68.12.0, after receiving a response message/email from a user, i'm doing these: right click on email > selected "Reply to sender only" > typed in my reply messages > ( Encrypt option icon is in disabled (cross-mark) state, & Sign option icon is enabled (w/green tick mark) , my this destination receiver person does not have a pub key ) > i pressed "Send" button > then i see this error code appears first: <img src="https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2020-09-11-23-24-46-7c6961.png" /> Note: sending signed messages to this same user succeeded earlier, (before updating TB). then email sending stops with below error message: <img src="https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2020-09-11-23-25-42-7beff9.png" /> so i'm showing extra info : screenshot (with private info obscured) of settings: imap settings: <img src="https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2020-09-11-23-26-00-72fb72.png" /> smtp settings: <img src="https://user-media-prod-cdn.itsre-sumo.mozilla.net/uploads/images/2020-09-11-23-26-36-db2b4f.png" /> How to solve & overcome errors ? i want to send signed msg to others. i want to send encrypted+signed msg to some users. EDIT: i checked update History in TB, & now added here the last version that i was using.
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Matt
Matt
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I will guess you are using Thunderbird 78. so this is all probably relevant. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq

atErik
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i posted an answer few hours earlier with solution to this problem , but i dont see it anymore !!

my answer was shown for a while, i edited & reposted, then some error was shown, and after that my answer is not shown anymore !!

can i get help from an Mozilla admin / mod on this issue to recover my previous answer ?

christ1
christ1
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my this destination receiver person does not have a pub key

In order to send an encrypted message you do need the recipients public key. There is no way around this.

is macOS TB v68.12.0 still using external gpg tool

Yes, and you'll need Enigmail for OpenPGP encryption.