Hi Sini, On 01.01.13 19:57, Sini Ruohomaa wrote: > 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.
At least part of what you're seeing is a bug within Thunderbird, triggering Enigmail message decryption/verification on false occasions. Please have a look at the treads starting at https://admin.hostpoint.ch/pipermail/enigmail-users_enigmail.net/2012-December/000394.html respectively https://admin.hostpoint.ch/pipermail/enigmail-users_enigmail.net/2012-December/000370.html This bug is fixed and will be included in the next maintenance release of Thunderbird 17 scheduled for publication next week. For clarification, could you please wait for this release and report back after updating? Thanks Ludwig _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
