GPG Suite doesn’t work on macOS Sonoma: GPG Suite
Therefore, unless you’re on an older version of MacOS, it’s not possible to support OpenGPG in Apple Mail, which is one of the minimum criteria here: Email Clients - Privacy Guides
As of now, some functionality is still missing, but we are working closely with Apple to have that added in future releases of macOS
Seems like there’s a chance this is only temporary, but until it’s resolved I feel like there should probably be a note about this on the email client page at the very least
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Monterey and Ventura are still getting security updates and are mostly fine to use. Apple Mail + GPG users are probably completely fine, unless they bought a new M3 machine.
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I switched to Thunderbird for this exact reason which is really a shame because Apple Mail has a much better interface.
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This happens all the time with 3rd party software and new releases of MacOS. Honestly, it might be a good idea to warn about the risk of new major versions of MacOS breaking support anywhere PG recommends 3rd party software for MacOS.
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According to that page it does look though as if the beta does, (which is almost ready for release). It looks like it required some re-implementation, but in a more secure way.
GPG Mail for macOS Sonoma is now a Mail Extension based on Apple’s official API to enhance macOS Mail.
APIs tend to change less often, so in the future I am expecting that this will be easier to support.
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Even if true that is far from a stable recommendation. People need email every day. When stuff like this happens people are just left without it and might just stop usong it all together because it is too complex.
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