Hi everyone! Recently I have, for at least the third time in my life, made an effort to use PGP (open implementations).
With two correspondents, I have managed to send encrypted mails back and forth, and to decrypt them as expected (at least we could read the decrypted message). For some reason, when I send an encrypted mail, some of the components involved (the sending Thunderbird, Enigmail, GPG or OS (Windows), or the receiving Thunderbird, Enigmail, GPG, or OS (Windows again)) have inserted excess newlines. As a result, the content contains an additional blank line after every intended line. Note that even though I decided to ask here first, I have no idea whether Enigmail is at fault here. It could be any of the components involved. The issue happens no matter whether I send or BCC to myself, and read the copy sent to myself, or send to someone else and ask them what they see. This even happens on very short or empty lines, way shorter than Thunderbird's wrap limit (79 chars or so). Why? In ordinary text, the excess blank lines are just annoying, but when trying to send keys, for example, they really get in the way. When I installed Enigmail, it asked a whether it should configure Thunderbird so that problems with signing and encryption would be minimized, and I chose "yes". I have searched the net for "excess blank lines" and similar expressions, but found no solutions. Search turned up some indication that I am not alone with such problems, but no solutions. For example, on page http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2384291 another user states that blank lines were inserted. I have checked that "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" is false for my Thunderbird, so that's not the problem. I also found an article that laments a similarly appalling mess: http://lwn.net/Articles/584542/ However, the article talks about wrapping due to long lines, not about newline multiplication in general. How can I find out which component messes up the messages? Can I observe information flowing into and out of Enigmail? How? How can I fix this? Regards, Rainer PS: Yes, I could try to use a different mail client. But hey, I have communication partners whom I want to support who use Thunderbird - and why not? It is a renowned mail client. If possible, I'd rather help fix the problem than avoid it. _______________________________________________ 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
