Editor wrote: > I'd like to see an enhancement added to Thunderbird when communicating via a > submitter's public key. It would be nice to be able to simply click on the > 'TO' category to select the emailer's public key which would then tell the > system not to use my own key.
My longevity on the 'Net leads me to start by asking, "I'm sorry was there a patch attached to this message?" The only enhancement needed is user education. > Currently, I have to select the individual's public key manually from the Open > 'PGP Security' portion of Account Settings, otherwise Thunderbird uses either > my e-mail address or a specific public key I had assigned to my identity. On > occasion, Thunderbird has blocked me from specifying another's public key in > that slot. Outside public keys are not automatically associated with their > email addresses (to my knowledge) at least in Thunderbird version 24.6.0. > > It would save a bit of time in multiple responses.i It seems you are confused about signing versus encryption and how the keys in each case are specified/selected. The key selection in the OpenPGP security selecton of each account/identity is for you to specify YOUR public key for signing. It will be added to the list of recipients iff default-key, default-recipient <ID>, or default-recipient-self are specified in gpg.conf or on the command line Enigmail sends to gpg. These are best thought of only as SIGNING keys. (I'm currently testing Enigmail 1.7 nightlies against the most recent and future Seamonkey releases, so I cannot be sure what the 1.6 messages exactly say.) Keys selected via "the 'TO' category" are your recipient's keys for encryption, the key(s) your message will be encrypted to. Recipient keys for encrypted messages are selected via the email address or by per-recipient rules. You may wish to spend some time becoming familiar with the Handbook and Quick Start Guide in the documentation section of the Enigmail web site [https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/ ], or by sending more messages to the list. Please do not send any more messages directly to me off-list without making arrangements in advance. -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Gingerbear DAWT net SKS/Enigmail/PGP-EKP or: John ( @ ) Enigmail DAWT net FSF Assoc #995 / FSFE Fellow #1797 hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:[email protected]?subject=HELP Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"
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