Rainer if you need someone to test with I can help
On 02/16/2015 12:08 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 16.02.15 17:51, Rainer Blome wrote: > > 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? > > Do you write plaintext mails, or do you use the HTML composer (the > latter has an additional toolbar for choosing font, bold etc)? > > If you use the HTML composer, I'd strongly suggest that you either > switch to PGP/MIME or to the plain text composer. Enigmail does behave > ideally with inline-PGP and HTML mails. > > -Patrick > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- /Mike
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