On 04/10/2014 7:46 PM, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > Hi Bob, > > On 25.09.14 17:38, Bob Henson wrote: >> I've just started using Thunderbird/Enigmail again and am seeing an od > d >> thing. I have Enigmail set to neither sign nor encrypt mail unless I >> manually tell it to. When replying to a newsgroup messageor e-mail, th > e >> Enigmail Key Selection window pops up. This is apparently random - but >> may be time related as I've only noticed it when I've been typing for >> some time. Both the message "recipient not valid, trusted or not found > ", >> and my Newsgroup signing key number are shown top left (even on e-mail > ), >> the "send encrypted" box is ticked, and to get the message to send it > is >> necessary to tick the "force not to encrypt" box - although encryptio > n >> is not selected by me, nor shown to be selected in the drop-down menus > . >> It just happenedwhilst I was typing this, and still included my >> newsgroup key, even though I'm not using my newsgroup e-mail address. > I >> clicked "Forced not to encrypt" and then a couple of moments later the >> window popped up again, even though "force not to encrypt" was still >> ticked. Any ideas what's going on - is this a known bug? > > The behaviour regarding unwanted encryption of newsgroup postings was > reported by Matthew Woehlke on this list on October 1st, but I cannot > reproduce it. >
I have recently discovered the reason for it, and have been trying it for a few days to make sure the behaviour did not recur before adding a comment to my original message - as no-one had replied I wasn't hurrying. I believe it was due to having ticked "Use PGP/Mime by Default" in the Thunderbird account settings, since I never use in-line PGP. I did not have any other defaults set so, logically, I assumed the PGP/Mime setting would only be invoked when I manually selected signing or encrypting later on. These were the settings I thought I had used with the old versions of Enigmail and they did not have the problem, so when I set it up again, I did the same. I unticked all the "Use PGP/Mime by Default" radio buttons in all my accounts, and the odd behaviour went away, and has not returned. Now, of course, when I do want to sign or encrypt I have to select PGP/Mime manually as well, as the setting has reverted to using in-line as the default. I must say that the new Enigmail is much more unnecessarily complicated to set up and to use than the old one - and I cannot see the reason for the changes. I'm sure there is one, but the new, cumbersome selection options in the "Write" window headers are a step in the wrong direction. Regards, Bob _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
