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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