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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