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Hi Daniel,

> 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. :(

Could you please open a bug report for that? As a temporary workaround, please
use per receipient rules for those adresses that are matched falsely.

Olav
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The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications
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