8bit mime support? (linked to thunderbird issue)

[Kai Engert]

On 7/30/25 15:05, Werner Koch via Gnupg-devel wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:02, JL said:
> 
>> I wanted to open a ticket on GPGME because thunderbird team says they
>> can't encode email using 8bit mime because of GPGME not handling
> 
> TB is again using GPGME?  Did they finally drop their own implementation
> and turned back to Enigmail or made the (gpgme based) optional GnuPG
> support finally working?
TB offers support for GPGME+GnuPG as an optional configuration 
mechanism, to allow the use of private keys that cannot be accessed 
using TB's internal library, e.g. smartcard keys, or Qubes OS split GPG 
keys.

By default, TB doesn't use GnuPG nor GPGME.

Kai