On 25.01.18 19:24, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2018-01-24 18:44:58 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> I recently got a bug report from one user, who says that Thunderbird 
>> complains about this email. I can reproduce the problem by viewing the 
>> attached email with Thunderbird 52.5.2 (64-bit) which is using Enigmail 
>> version 1.9.9 (20171222-0011). Thunderbird says "Enigmail Error - No 
>> valid armored OpenPGP data block found".
> 
> arguably, this is a bug in enigmail's attempts to handle inline-signed
> messages.  I think that enigmail should treat this as a "failed
> signature", which is to say -- enigmail should simply ignore the
> situation.  Messages which are not correctly signed have no semantic
> difference from messages which are not signed at all.
> 
> I recommend that if enigmail can detect this situation it should leave
> the message untouched; treat it as an unsigned message; and provide no
> error or warning UI.

I agree, the error message doesn't provide much benefit. I removed it on
master.

-Patrick

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