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Thunderbird and GnuPG
Thunderbird is the email component of the Mozilla applica-
tion suite, a direct descendant of the Netscape web browser.
The Mozilla Foundation produces several high-quality pieces of
software, including the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird
mail client, the popular bug-tracking software Bugzilla, and
so on. These tools are all free to end users. You can download
Thunderbird at www.getthunderbird.org.
Thunderbird has rapidly been recognized as a high-quality
mail suite and is a first choice among many people who need
a powerful mail client. Because Thunderbird’s source code
is available for public use, the GnuPG developers have had
no difficulties integrating all the features they desire into the
plug-in. ...