On 09/21/2013 08:18 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> On 21.09.13 19:09, Max Maass wrote:
>> On 09/19/2013 07:46 PM, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>> On 09/19/2013 02:19 PM, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>>> I notice that under some circumstances Thunderbird will drop 
>>>> encryption for a reply to an encrypted message.  This happens 
>>>> from time to time, I'm not sure why.  Is there any way to set
>>>> up a safety dialog that 1) warns that the reply is now
>>>> unencrypted and 2) defaults to "no" ?
>>>>
>>>> Regards, /Lars
> 
>>> It was just a matter of delving deeper into the settings:
> 
>>> OpenPGP -> Preferences -> Display Expert Settings -> Sending -> 
>>> Always confirm before sending
> 
>>> Posting in case it is useful to have in the searchable archives.
> 
>>> Regards, /Lars
> 
>> I am not quite sure, but from what I understood, this fixes the 
>> symptoms but not the cause. Plus, it leads to a lot of
>> confirmation dialogues that you are usually not interested in (if I
>> understand the function of the setting you enabled correctly, I
>> have not tried it).
> 
>> So, it would probably be worth it to debug under what conditions
>> the encryption is dropped (perhaps related to the bug with
>> encryption dropping from drafts?) and to fix the issue...
> 
>> Max
> 
> 
> Could we agree on bottom posting on this mailing list?

+1

> I assume that the problem is related to not displaying the email
> before replying to it (e.g. with the preview pane off). In the case of
> PGP/MIME there is not much to do about it, as the message composition
> window doesn't know that Enigmail decrypted the mail in question. Such
> information is only available if the mail was viewed first; which
> allows Enigmail to remember (in the backend) that the mail was decrypted.
> 
> -Patrick

In this second instance of encryption getting dropped, I am not sure I
can reliably reproduce it, since it happened when I was in a hurry.  I
started with a fresh profile in Thunderbird and freshly installed,
default Engimail settings.  I sent two encrypted mails, got an encrypted
reply and then replied to the reply.  That last part got sent
unencrypted.  I do know that I did not save it in drafts nor let it sit
around a long time.  I've messed with the settings a lot since then.

FWIW since then I have switched the "OpenPGP Security" settings for that
Thunderbird profile/account to use PGP/MIME by default.  If I understand
correctly from an earlier message, that is recommended over the inline PGP.

Regards
/Lars

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