Use a GPG smartcard with Thunderbird. Part 3: Setup Thunderbird

In previous blog posts, we discussed setting up a GPG smartcard on GNU / Linux and FreeBSD . In this blog post, we will configure Thunderbird to work with an external smartcard reader and our GPG -compatible smartcard. Before Thunderbird 78, if you wanted to use OpenPGP email encryption, you had to use a third-party add-on such as https://enigmail.net/ . Thunderbird’s recent versions natively…