-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWqPZZAAoJENsRh7ndX2k7zT4P/j8BCvE4a3/OATX4xxG/WYSz daoGvZje11nfr7Mxl2fYS069bTd1kAmSbUeHl3vX6lnsxGJaEVzujCcatUipenZY fleBKp1XEajYSvoZE9itjHs8GLkDLFMUaHk12kb3Mycoae4xYnDRxR58i4ESKcUW NN2Axe+8E6rYwMtcmP/JtwIliaeL2pqTyqv63meJP9ee39UAH+Sllud7EsGKHICo YAredshyTSSQoKE1yuOa+nzaJAK0/2i3wX8Xdl1fC84CiRHCAB7qMuA1pQ4xWIdU lYrLppzubPWBoPf8cvCKk9eyBIjd/+FgojTHQrU3yiMHZlbGajfpT4d9MEHC77rf Jaqc7FuKKxGip+XXydCjgG/yDmDaPP5P1MS4mJC9X7kQ/AYw0mcurceKc31H7s7H /jKz3ERrYu4kmI5UYSxlmBTa1gmgW/CUmefn37ubaJgpzyWGDXh9TkmLL3a0E5iQ v9c1VEBvz8OJ3lbHN0AE2/LCIF9CekshjInXjZ74npltiNqtKt42/Rjaz5SMESLI EukQW9vlEXni2dQ6vOtR8OTP2dTn5Oxc5xr14Abyyb5ccwDJrdz5gdhuJ9dUZv6Q u2iT3t0bwBLNqUoM4a3Mde5TrWF7XpIGjbo/KUdh86qSKMQgQoC4hZ3IqXPQark/ 0E4OM2xE4tI9/tk22FFh =rcDq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
