On 05/07/14 19:17, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
> On 05.07.14 18:22, Philip Jackson wrote:
>> This is weird - I received this email and Thunderbird showed it as
>> coming from Onno Ekker.   I clicked on the Details button to view
>> key properties and find I'm looking at Patrick Brunschwig's cert
>> (which does check with the cert ref shown in the header).
> 
>> And reading the email shows that indeed it comes from Patrick.
> 
>> Expanding Thunderbird's headers shows clearly that the sender is
>> Onno.
> 
>> So Patrick is sending out his signed mails under Onno's identity.
> 
> No. Onno sent a followup to Patricks message, writing only a few lines
> on the top of his message. The rest consists of a full quote of
> Patricks message. This message was signed inline and thus, Patricks
> signature was also included in the full quote. Enigmail *will* try to
> decode signatures in the first quote level and succeeded this time. It
> also displays the borders of what was signed. Did you see them?

Thanks, Ludwig, for that explanation.  I was mistaken in thinking it came from
Patrick.  I can now see the borders.  Clearly emails need examining and I should
not only read the text but read between the lines as well.

Sorry for that.

Philip

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