Thunderbird 1.5
I was having some difficulties with the previous Thunderbird (1.0) install and Enigmail, namely that I couldn’t import gpg keys. So I checked around, saw that the next version of Thunderbird (1.5) was a working release and installed it. When running it for the first time, it popped up a message indicating that Enigmail(the installed version) was incompatible and prompted me to check for an update. Easy. It installed the update and continued to load. I’m not sure yet if I will have the same problem with importing keys since I have most keys imported that I will need, but I did run across an interesting new feature that I had only glanced at. There is an anti-phishing or anti-scam feature. Thunderbird will warn you when the email appears to be the scam type email with a button to push to unmark it as scam email. There really isn’t anywhere that I saw that would allow the user to update a list training the scam filter – those scammers are constantly changing their technique to avoid filters – but this seems like a good first step.
Update: 01/18/05 Enigmail still seems unable to import public keys from key servers. I can however import the key using the command line gpg software. I did note that I am using gpg 1.2.2 or something like that and enigmail claims to work with 1.4.1. So I reran cygwin setup, and found that I must have installed gpg from outside cygwin. I checked the box to download the latest gnupg. Now I just have to find a message with an unverified signature… stay tuned.
