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Date: 2004Dec7, 2010jan21
Product: Thunderbird
OS: Windows

Q.  How can I get GPG working with Thunderbird?

A.  Here's what I did:

- Downloaded GPG for Windows and unzipped in c:\Program Files\gpg
- Used regedit to set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG\HomeDir to c:\docs\keys
- Imported my PGP settings:
        cd c:\Program Files\gpg
        gpg --import < "c:\docs\PGP Keyrings\pubring.pkr"
        gpg --import < "c:\docs\PGP Keyrings\secring.skr"
- Download Enigmail to c:\temporary
- Installed with Thunderbird's Tools - Extensions
- Restart Thunderbird
- Back at Tools - Extensions set the path to gpg.exe
- Send a test mail to myself
- Sent a test mail to a friend
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