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On 15.12.13 14:12, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
> On 14.12.13 20:47, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 
>> I agree that the report mixes the two things; but i'm pretty
>> sure the issue is about "automatically decrypt/verify messages".
>> I've asked the original reporter to clarify on the bug report;
>> hopefully that will help.
> 
> As it seems, it's now clear that the bug reporter complains about 
> random passphrase requests, even when no decryption/signing is
> taking place. This reminds me of Bug 138 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/138/
> 
> The fix for this bug provided by Enigmail 1.6 cannot work on
> earlier software as of Thunderbird 24 and derived software.
> 
>> Anyhow, in my testing, it does look to me like the
>> "automatically decrypt/verify messages" checkboxed menuentry
>> doesn't have the desired effect, at least on icedove 24.1.1 and
>> enigmail 1.6.
> 
> Well, at least for PGP/MIME encrypted messages, see my mail from 
> yesterday. I'll open a bug for this.

Automatic decryption/verification is basically only about inline PGP.
As the decryption task is called automatically by Thunderbird as part
of the backend process, it is not feasible to implement this properly
for PGP/MIME messages.

- -Patrick


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