I doubt gpg2 is correctly set up on your PC, since you're not prompted for a 
password.

Please follow this guide to ensure it's working properly:
https://enigmail.net/support/gnupg2_issues.php

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Noodén" <[email protected]>
Sent: 02.09.2015 - 21:30
To: Enigmail user discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Enigmail] New enigmail tries to decrypt with outdated, disabled 
key

> On 09/02/2015 10:13 PM, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
>> On 02.09.15 20:24, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>
>>> The error message between the message body and the headers is :
>>>
>>>     Enigmail Error - decryption failed; click on 'Details'
>>>     button for more information.
>>
>> Is this a message sent from you or sent from another person? What
>> happens, if you re-enable your old key? Disabling of an old key is not a
>> good idea if you want to decrypt stuff which is encrypted using this key.
>
> If I send and if others send, it is encrypted using the new key.  It's
> looking more like Enigmail is trying to decrypt using the wrong key, so
> the subject .
>
>>> When I click on Details and choose View Key Properties I get shown
>>> Primary User ID, Key ID, and Fingerprint which are for the wrong key.
>>
>> Well, as said: You must use the key for which this message has once been
>> encrypted to. If it is disabled, it cannot be used and you get an error
>> message.
>
> The key it is showing in the error message is the active key.
>
>>> If I try to sign an outgoing message, I get this:
>>>
>>>     Key 0xXXXXXXXX not found or not valid.  The (sub-)key
>>>     might have expired.
>>>
>>> If I go into Engimail -> Key Management -> Key properties for that key,
>>> it shows that the key is valid and expires next year.
>>
>> Do you get prompted for the passphrase or does the error prompt happen
>> before?
>
> Before.  No passphrase gets asked.
>
>> [gpg.conf]
>>
>>> gpg.conf is stock, I haven't changed it.  Here are the active lines:
>>>
>>>  $ egrep -v "^#|^$" gpg.conf
>>>  keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
>>>  use-agent
>>>
>>>  default-key  FE35B305
>>                 ^^^^^^^^
>> Is this the keyId of your old (disabled) or of your new key? Does the
>> undesired behaviour go away if you comment out this line (put a # at the
>> first column)?
>
> Neither.  That is yet another key, an old one but not as old.  I guess I
> should say I did not change gpg.conf manually before.  Changing that
> line to the new key and restarting Thunderbird has no noticeable effect.
>
> I've had different problems in the past with Thunderbird every year or
> so, on different machines.  Wiping the profile and starting over fixed
> those.  I wonder if that would help in this case too.
>
> Regards,
> Lars
>
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