For the record (because I’ve not seen this mentioned before–apologies if this has been posted elsewhere):
I just updated from Thunderbird 68.12.0 to 78.2.2 on a test system (stand-alone installation) since the latter version is made available through Mozilla’s own “release” update channel starting today. Somewhat unexpectedly, I found that it’s impossible to use (i.e. (re-)import) so-called “laptop keys” (aka disposable subkeys with an offline master key).
This effectively rules out production use for me–unless a GPG-compatible backend will be provided soon/by when the old 68.x version of Thunderbird will not receive security fixes anymore addressing newly discovered flaws, it’s time to switch to another application on the desktop, I guess…
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