Op 27-07-17 om 20:52 schreef Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > On Thu 2017-07-27 17:23:25 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:59:46 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor >> <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >> >>> I can confirm that enigmail 2:1.9.8.1-1 (from debian testing) installs >>> successfully on jessie and that it appears to fix the underlying >>> problem. >> >> My experience is different: it installs without a problem, it gives >> warnings while decrypting. And it looks-like it encrypts, but it sent >> plain text. > > yikes. this is a particularly scary failure mode, and i think it is > distinct from the report here, which includes messages simply failing to > send (esp. those with attachments) and some buttons or UI elements being > unresponsive. > > Could you open this as a separate issue in the debian BTS? can you help > me to reproduce the behavior you're describing? I haven't see that yet.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870073 >> When I install it from Mozilla, it has the same problem on my machine, I >> am now back to Thunderbird 45 as a work-arround, what works fine. > > glad there's a workaround, but it doesn't sound like something > particularly sustainable long term. if you can help me replicate the > "looks-encrypted-but-sends-in-the-clear" failure mode? When I answer an encrypted message of somebody in my keyring, I expect that the message will become encrypted. But that's not the case. It's sent unencrypted without a warning. With regards, Paul van der Vlis -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen https://www.vandervlis.nl/