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On 27.01.16 15:32, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> i just helped a friend running enigmail 1.8.2 who had trouble
> opening or viewing any attachments in encrypted mail.  they
> appeared to be zero-bytes in size.
> 
> The problem was resolved by looking in the thunderbird config
> editor to note that extensions.enigmail.autoDecrypt was set to
> 'false'.  clearing the setting (going back to the default of
> 'true') made the attachments all work fine.
> 
> i was surprised to see that the "autoDecrypt" setting didn't seem
> to be accessible from the user interface anywhere.   This made it
> especially hard to debug.

The autoDecrypt option is nothing else than the menu entry
Enigmail > Automatically Decrypt/Verify Messages

> if the autoDecrypt functionality is causing this kind of problem,
> and if we decide it's not worth allowing the user to configure it,
> we should strip out the code that uses that setting.  Is there a
> reason to keep it?

Yes, I think so.

The bug you are referring to should be fixed in v1.9 beta.

- -Patrick

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