Released Enigmail 0.95.7 extension to the mail client of Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Seamonkey

Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Seamonkey which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG (see screenshots).

The latest version of Enigmail is 0.95.7, working with Thunderbird 2.0 and Seamonkey 1.1

Enigmail is open source and dually-licensed under the GNU General Public License and the Mozilla Public License.

You can download and install Enigmail from the Download page. See the Help page for post-installation instructions.
Mozilla toolbar showing Enigmail decrypt button

Features List

• Tightly integrated suport for OpenPGP with the Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Seamonkey mail clients

• Encrypt/sign mail when sending, decrypt/authenticate received mail

• Support for inline-PGP (RFC 4880) and PGP/MIME (RFC 3156)

• Per-Identity based encryption and signing defaults

• Per-Recipient rules for automated key selection, and enabling/disabling encryption and signing

• OpenPGP key management user interface

• Automatically encrypt or sign attachments for inline PGP messages

• Powerful GUI for easy configuration and OpenPGP key management

• Detailed user preferences for advanced configuration

• Integrated OpenPGP PhotoID viewer

• Supports OpenPGP key retrieval via proxy servers

• Integrates with GnuPG, version 1.4.x and 2.0.x

• Supports Mozilla's Multiple Identities feature

• Available for: Windows / Mac OSX / Linux x86-32 (all in one official release file), and contributed / distribution builds for other operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, *BSD and OS/2)

• Many Language Packs, (mostly) included in the official releases, and available separately for localisation of contributed builds
  

See the Features page for a full list of Enigmail's features.

Enigmail is cross-platform like all Mozilla products, although binaries are supplied only for selected platforms on this website. Enigmail uses inter-process communication to execute command-line versions of GnuPG to carry out encryption/authentication.

Screenshots

(Taken from Enigmail version 0.95.6)

OpenPGP menu and Main Thunderbird window with Decrypt button

OpenPGP menu in main window

Compose window with OpenPGP Security button

OpenPGP menu in message composition window

Enigmail Preferences Window

Enigmail per-account Settings

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