On 19.01.17 17:20, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> On 1/19/2017 3:18 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> On 19.01.17 01:51, Anthony Papillion wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm using Thunderbird 45.6.0 with Enigmail 1.9.6.1 on both Microsoft
>>> Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux 16.04. I've set the
>>> extension.enigmail.protectHeaders to 'true' because I want to use
>>> PGP/MIME to encrypt my message headers as well as the message.
>>>
>>> Most of the time, this works with no problems. However, it occassionally
>>> silent fails and, while it encrypts the message body, the headers are
>>> completely in the clear. I've verified this with multiple individuals on
>>> various systems all the way back to a Windows 7 system and it still happens.
>>>
>>> Is this a known problem? If so, is there a workaround to make sure that
>>> headers are also encrypted?
>>
>> By definition, the header protection cannot work for inline-PGP messages
>> -- that is, it only works for PGP/MIME messages. If you have
>> per-recipient rules or account/identity settings that prefer inline-PGP,
>> then the headers cannot be protected.
> 
> I do understand that and am using PGP/MIME for all but a few recipients.
> In the cases where this problem has happened, the messages have ALL been
> PGP/MIME.

I wouldn't know of a reason when it would fail _and_ still encrypt the
message. Actually, if there is a bug in that part of the code, the
message would be sent unencrypted - there is no try/catch.

I don't fully understand what you mean with a Windows 7 system. Does it
happen for mails that you sent out, or mails that you received?

-Patrick




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