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On 12.12.15 10:40, Oskar Hahn wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Am 12.12.2015 um 10:23 schrieb Patrick Brunschwig:
>> On 12.12.15 05:53, Oskar Hahn wrote:
>>> ... I have two keys. An old one that is expired and revoked 
>>> (E4835646BDE8EA81) and a current one (E72581B1FE9F104C). I keep
>>> the old key to decrypt old mails.
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> So it seems this bug is a new "feature" of gnupg 2.1.10. It
>>> can probably be fixed by using the new option
>>> --encrypt-to-default-key instead of --encrypt-to.
>> 
>> This problem cannot be solved by Enigmail, but needs to be fixed
>> by yourself. You seem to have more than one key using the same
>> email address, which is ambiguous, and which GnuPG should not
>> have accepted for a long time.
>> 
>> The correct solution is to explicitly select a key in the
>> account settings (Edit > Account Settings > OpenPGP Security -->
>> Select Key).
> 
> Thank you, that helped me. But I still think it is a bug in
> enigmail. Yes I have two keys using the same email address. But
> only one key that is not expired and not revoked.

Right, but that's a bug in *GnuPG* -- not in Enigmail. GnuPG should
ignore revoked and expired keys when trying to figure out which key to
use for encryption. If GnuPG reports that the two keys are ambiguous
then there is not much Enigmail can do about.

> This error happens if someone creates a new key and keeps the old
> one, what should be a usual situation. The setting to choose the
> key is hard to find.
> 
> At least you should change the error message shown by enigmail.
> The current message is:
> 
> Error - encryption command failed

Yes, that's the only thing I agree.

- -Patrick

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