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Thunderbird Enigmail on Macos

Deprecation warning
This is not needed anymore since Thunderbird includes OpenPGP tools from version 78

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Since some time ago Enigmail plugin for Thunderbird requires a working installation of GPG tools, including a graphical pinentry to be able to ask for the key passphrase.

It seems not to be available by default. To solve it, install a graphical pinentry:

brew install pinentry-mac
echo "use-standard-socket
pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
killall gpg-agent

And you’re good to go.

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