Hi, I'm running TB 17.0 in Ubuntu Linux and Enigmail 1.4.6 (20121105-0019). I've set it up yesterday after I finally gave up on Evolution's GPG UI. I must say for the most part I prefer Enigmail so
I'm having problems with the software's eagerness to keep unlocking my key. I turned off everything I could come up with, including TB's spam detection, to not have an encrypted message in the preview window, turning off automated decryption of mails, anything that looked like search indexing etc. I prefer to not let the laptop I'm writing mail on to cache my key passphrase as a matter of habit, so I keep getting nagged for it continuously even when I'm not actively using TB for anything. It seems to me that one way to keep getting surprising repeat requests for key is to have a composition window open that is marked to be encrypted. It's going to ask for the key to be unlocked every time it autosaves (I've got autosave set at 5 minutes). Note that this is not for signing, because I've set up signing to never happen already in case this would help. Quoth the debug console on this matter: gpg: <[email protected]>: skipped: public key already present enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --decrypt --use-agent It also seems that Thunderbird, as a part of saving drafts on IMAP, first saves it encrypted, and then tries to _unencrypt_ it for some reason. And when I deny this request, the draft message may start to show up multiple times in the folder. So in summary: 1) The request popup to unlock my key blocks my _entire X session_, also when TB is minimized, which I think seems needlessly rude. It also doesn't cache my 'cancels' (so I can be asked for the password for 5+ times in a row before I can go back to doing whatever I was doing) and doesn't indicate what it needs the key for. (To reproduce, cause the key popup to appear and just try to ignore it.) 2) Saving a message marked to be encrypted for some reason needs the decryption key to be unlocked. Could this be avoided by any chance? To reproduce: Open a new mail, press the key icon in the bottom right corner to make it encrypted (it should turn yellow), write something in the message, and press File -> Save. A key unlocking popup appears. If you cancel the key unlock, the popup reappears a second time even. What I'd like to see: Encrypting saved drafts shouldn't need my decryption key for anything. Also, if passive processes want to decrypt mails, it'd be great if the popup be more ignorable and some kind of "bugger off" option be added to cancel all future key unlock requests that I didn't cause by actually wanting to explicitly decrypt a mail. Thank you, --Sini _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
