-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Sini,
as far as I see it, noone answered until now, sorry for that. I'll try now. You cross-posted to two lists, in general please don't. This reply is to the Engiamil list only. Please focus on Enigmail issues here and on gpg-agent issues on the GnuPG users' list. You did have linux/desktop environment specific problems, and got some answers for them. I'll not comment on those since I am currently not using a linux desktop myself. > [...] harassed repeatedly for decryption I have not requested [...] [...] > just having Enigmail installed gives me random key unlock requests [...] On all system I support/use (Fedora 17+18, Ubuntu 11.10+12.04, Mac OS 10.6-10.8, Windows 7+8) I have/had no issues as you described them. Many users don't have. Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you do believe you that you do experience these issues. I'm telling you that I cannot reproduce yet since I still have no idea what's causing it. For you to compare: since at least two years I only use GnuPG 2.x and the current Thunderbird release versions but Enigmail releases and nightlies. I cache my passphrase for several minutes (not until end of session), settings are in gpg-agent.conf, Enigmail doesn't handle passphrases. > One work around would be to let my email program always cache my key If you have GnuPG 2.x on your system, Enigmail doesn't cache any passprase. GnuPG, namely gpg-agent does. It is configured in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, see ignore-cache-for-signing, default-cache-ttl and max-cache-ttl in http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Agent-Options.html > I've chosen not to install the plugin While I can understand your decision very well, this will not reveal the cause of the problem. > I turned off all automatic decryption A good idea to narrow down the problem in case there is a bugin Enigmail. But the automatism should only be triggered by the current preview pane or it you open messages in separate tabs/windows, not by background tasks. On all my systems, this setting is enabled and although it is, Enigmail never starts decrypting things on it's own. Only when I actively display some message. > - turned off search indexing and spam filtering - changed my drafts saving > to be local instead of on the IMAP server Also a good idea when trying to drill down for a culprit's cause. > - I have a per-recipient rule to encrypt mail, so to those recipients I > don't type in the recipient before I'm about to send. I don't get that one. How does your rule look like? What is it you want to achieve by it? Did you try to backup pgprules.xml and delete it for testing? (general reference: http://www.enigmail.net/documentation/pgprules_file.php) > - I don't click on the encryption key before I'm about to send So you save your drafts (IMAP/now local) UNENCRYPTED and UNSIGNED. Correct? > This session I got an unwarranted popup asking for a key unlock: - while I > was editing my message filters (I don't *think* I had any > encryption-related mails open at the time, it just came as a surprise and > got me to start this mail; it's not easily reproduceable) Please enable logging of your filters and Enigmail debugging. Next time, please take down the time when such unenxpected passphrase request happens so you can check both logs later on. > - expectedly when I tried to save as draft a mail that was marked to be > encrypted (to test the window grab one more time), Just encrypted or also signed? There is no need for a passphrase while encrypting. > - after I deleted an encrypted test draft mail from my Drafts folder and > the preview pane moved on to an unencrypted mail (this one, actually), Same: was that draft signed, too? BTW: do you use a SmartCard for the your key? > - after I first turned _off_ encrypting on the open draft message from the > yellow key icon in the bottom right corner, and made sure it was deleted > from the Drafts folder, and THEN tried to save it as draft (this seems to > be a bug, shouldn't it start saving the draft as cleartext at that point?) Yes, it should, please check what actually IS saved on the server/in the local drafts folder. > - after autosave wanted to save said test mail a couple of minutes later; > after that I didn't change it so it's been peaceful. Hmmm, yes. Did you test with a complete new profile, I mean a new system user? If I encounter such problems, I add another user to my OS, set up a new basic TB profile, install EM, import and edit trust for the few keys I need to test, and test things there. Without many old settings, keys or other AddOns. > I have problems replying to encrypted mails because the replies are by > default encrypted, the draft autosaving keeps wanting to decrypt the result > even though the message is open in front of me Did you set gpg-agent's cache ttl to zero (or 1) somewhere (user specific or system wide settings, (self-compiled/distro) built-in default) on your system? This would explain such behavior. To me it reads like gpg-agent is just not working properly. > I [created] a new file ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf. It contains the line > "no-grab" and nothing else. I did not have to add this line to any of my systems (using distro settings) to work properly with gpg-agent. > I've been unable to start an Enigmail log file. Huh? That's strange. You did notice that, advanced settings > debugging doesn't need a file but a folder, right? 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