There is nothing to decrypt, I have not yet sent or received any such
encrypted or signed emails.

At a higher level, it seems that enigma should not be decrypting emails
until they are viewed.  That would make this behavior a risk or flaw.

It really does make the whole thing unusable, and my thunderbird is
probably not that different from others'.


On 05/16/2017 12:42 PM, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16.05.17 15:19, Dr M C Nelson wrote:
>> Despite the discussion in the captioned thread some several years ago,
>> the bug has not been fixed.
>>
>> Enigmail persistently prompts for the password for openpg, stealing the
>> focus in the process.
>>
>> There is no apparent rhyme or reason for which email recipients or
>> accounts for when it chooses to do this.
>>
>> If I do not click to encrypt or sign the email, and there is no
>> automatic behavior of this sort explicitly turned on, then it should not
>> be happening.
> There is automatic behaviour, scanning mails in the background, done by
> Thunderbird processes. This triggers Enigmail decryption.
>
> You usually solve this kind of trouble by adding a passphrase caching
> time. Enigmail -> Preferences, "Basic" tab, "Remember passphrase for x
> minutes of idle time." Select x.
>
>> It is impossible to work with emails with this installed.
> Agreed, but this is not normal behaviour.
>
> Ludwig
>


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