Enigmail

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by dazza101 on Nov. 29, 2015 · permalink

A nice idea but it totally messes up all your HTML and wrap email formatting settings. Every email you send after installing is in plaintext mode, whether you use PGP or not. Plus there's a very ugly and intrusive toolbar. I'm a great fan of PGP but I uninstalled this add-on after less than a day because of the hassle. Then I had to spend ages resetting all the HTML composition settings for all my accounts and identities so Thunderbird would go back to how it was before (hint: make a backup of your profile before installing). I want to send maybe one or two encrypted emails every week. For those one or two, it's great. But the hassle for the other 99% just made it useless for me. If I need to use PGP I'll just encrypt my message using GnuPGP tools elsewhere and copy-and-paste it. Don't install this add-on unless you only ever want to send 1990s-style plaintext emails to everybody.