On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:56:37PM +0200, Andreas Krüger wrote: > The instructions from /usr/share/doc/enigmail/README.Debian no longer > work. I'm guessing why: There no longer is a file "chrome.rdf", and it > is unclear which file needs to be removed instead. > > In passing, these lines are clearly out of date and do not reflect the > present names: > > > apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail > > > 1. stop thunderbird > > > 3. start thunderbird > > This is a Etch machine, aka "stable". I have followed recent updates > from the stable parts of the distribution. One of those caused > Enigmail to quit working. > > Particularily, when I want to send an encrypted email, upon pressing > "send" nothing happens for some time (but I see a lot of CPU > load). Then the warning comes up: "A script on this page is busy, do > you want to continue or stop the script." (Translated from the German > original text I see.) Continuing produces the same warning, after some > time. When I stop the script, enigmail has not found the recepient's > key (though that is in my GPG keyring), but displays an empty choice > box. > > The enigmail console says it has been running > > enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 > - --with-fingerprint --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-keys > > When I rerun this command in a terminal, it seems to run all right and > returns quite a few lines. So it seems the output is not parsed > correctly. > > I follow the advice from Bug 427591: > > * Stop icedove, > * remove file extensions.ini, > * purge enigmail, > * run icedove one more time (yes, enigmail is gone), > * stop icedove, > * install enigmail > * start icedove. > > Enigmail was there, and my previous settings were remembered (in spite > of the "purge"). But the problem was still there, also: Choosing the > recepient's key did not come back. >
yes ... i think recipient key dialog is broken ... same for key management. I always thought it was just key management, but its likely that its recipient dialog too. Sorry for the hazzle I will try to get a fix up soonish. - Alexander
