hi enigmail folks--

Enigmail 1.7 is choosing the wrong key in some cases due to overeager
matching on the user ID.  When matching for e-mail addresses, it needs
to make an *exact* match on the e-mail address, meaning that it is
either the entire User ID ("[email protected]"), or that it is enclosed
in angle brackets ("alice <[email protected]>").

At the moment, if i have Alice's key, but i'm writing to the people
responsible for solid water at Example Corp (e-mail address
"[email protected]" -- they don't have a key of their own) then enigmail
in "convenient mode" will happily encrypt to Alice's key, i think
because it found the string "[email protected]" in her User ID.
I actually ran into this because i wrote to a friend [email protected]
(who has no key that i know of), and my keyring knows of a
[email protected], and Jane received an undecryptable message from
me. :(

        --dkg

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