Thunderbird is missing WKS (Re: Questions regarding WKD/WKS)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Freitag 02 Dezember 2022 18:06:59 schrieb Andreas Heinlein via Gnupg-users:
> > I would also strongly suggest to use gpg-wks-client.
>
> Thanks, I overlooked that. I find it a little difficult to instruct normal
> users to configure their client to sign mails, but make an exception when
> submitting their mail to the wks.

The idea is that a mail user agent supports this special workflow.

> I cannot use gpg-wks-client here - our folks are using thunderbird.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1695048

Yes, it would be cool to have good manual instructions.
Especially for windows. 

I ponder writing a tool in go to supplement to gpg-wks-client for the sending 
part on windows only (as it is quite easy to do a static cross build in go).
But it can be done in C as well I guess. The usability problems stays the
same: You would want to use the credentials and the TLS implementation 
of the email client, which you cannot get. And even accessing the TLS 
properties on windows makes this less portable. And I do not think GnuPG 
wants to grow a real smtp-client library.

Regards,
Bernhard
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