Package: enigmail
Version: 2:1.5.0+id17-1
Severity: wishlist
PGP/MIME signed messages occasionally get into trouble with some
non-MIME-aware mailing lists, some broken mailing lists, and some
archaic mail user agents.
However, inline PGP messages get into trouble with broken character
encodings, broken charsets, non-ASCII characters
(e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/698080), attachments and other common
features of the modern e-mail landscape.
There is no consensus on the upstream mailing list about whether
PGP/MIME or inline PGP should be the default, so upstream's default
has stayed at inline PGP out of inertia.
However, debian should try to actively support more than english-only
e-mail with no attachments. If there are tools that don't cope with
PGP/MIME, we should be made aware of them, and we should fix those
tools rather than expecting all users of encryption to limit
themselves to english-only e-mail with no attachments.
I think we should default to sending mail in PGP/MIME format. If we
can demonstrate that this is functional, this might help break the
inertia upstream as well.
The attached patch would make this change.
--dkg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages enigmail depends on:
ii gnupg 1.4.12-7
ii icedove 17.0-1
ii libc6 2.13-37
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4
ii libnspr4 2:4.9.2-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4
enigmail recommends no packages.
enigmail suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff --git a/extensions/enigmail/package/prefs/enigmail.js b/extensions/enigmail/package/prefs/enigmail.js
index 3c99b0f..f235df6 100644
--- a/extensions/enigmail/package/prefs/enigmail.js
+++ b/extensions/enigmail/package/prefs/enigmail.js
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ pref("mail.identity.default.pgpSignEncrypted", false);
pref("mail.identity.default.defaultEncryptionPolicy", 0);
pref("mail.identity.default.openPgpHeaderMode", 0);
pref("mail.identity.default.openPgpUrlName", "");
-pref("mail.identity.default.pgpMimeMode", false);
+pref("mail.identity.default.pgpMimeMode", true);
pref("mail.identity.default.attachPgpKey", false);
/*
