On 7/17/2015 11:15 AM, Elmar mc.fly Lecher wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 17.07.2015 14:27, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>>> The question is: is this accepted as a problem? And for that the
>>>  answer is no.
>> Not at all.  We absolutely accept that it's a problem for some of
>> our users -- but we have no ability to change this, since this is a
>> GnuPG decision rather than an Enigmail decision.
> 
> Are you sure about that? Because what see as root of the error is in
> my view either thunderbird or the enigmail extension, i cannot clearly
> say so.
> 
> The way i saw it that thunderbirds recieves the mail. Thunderbird or
> the enigmail extension decide to decrypt a mail. gpg is called, wants
> to know the passphrase and uses pinentry through gpg-agent to ask for
> the passphrase.
> 
> But why does thunderbird ask for a mail when its not even visible for
> me? That means some routine has decided to call gpg -d and then the
> whole thing of pinentry gets started.
> 
> That is for "why is a popup window opened (gpg called) when there is a
> open pop-up window?"
> 
> Also unnessary call of gpg -d - or how you see that - is when i have a
> mail for example from facebook that gets filtered into a subfolder.
> We will see more web service providers sending gpg mail in the future
> and thats a good thing. But those mails are typically good examples of
> "i look in there when i have to"
> This sum's up into "don't decrypt a mail if the user cannot see it
> anyway". And as i understand the decision of decrypting a mail -
> always when it comes in - is made in enigmail, not in gpg itself, that
> is just called.
> 
>> If you want this to change, suggest it on GnuPG-Users.  But
>> talking about it here will unfortunately change nothing.
> 
> Yeah, i am maybe really bad in explaining the problem.
> 
> 
> mc.fly ....




You are using Linux so this 'might' be a little different from my
Windows 'words'.

Menu Bar > Enigmail > *uncheck* Automatically Decrypt/Verify Messages

I would restart Thunderbird.

-- 

  David

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