-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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.)
That's because pinentry blocks your X session. pinentry is part of GnuPG 2.x, and there is nothing Enigmail could do about it. AFAIR there is an option in gpg-agent.conf to disable blocking the X session. - -Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEVAwUBUOQEKsk25cDiHiw+AQgBeAf9GhdCOTjcHdBcrooDwnFDZH56pKm7XWGh o8EomCzvNEpPOa0cYLbzGdmmH6uGiA/ffvbR56WUGu2NVKy23DuoaTJOsMW5hd0S z5kJGoLtLvHRSpWMI3dEsIZBPSNHY9bF6HKXB3b8JRhDTCmooQl1M+B58BL6fpBD kMJwg/jNK6B6bSjloSsfbBmAbM7eyb8TF/cUqpaB/d0t/fh18uYv9ittTypP6YT2 fzTxkGSe5mq1YKIcQSdd1mr0vMFg8JwJTBeoC4BKIINKitd+ag+MDDtcgllCbN8k Dpe0m1J3W9kqCUTJlyN69bMLEvZP5ZCYszyZyp5RwkRI1qEOzBthUg== =ohTQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
