Hi Patrick!
Thank you very much for the reply and the clarifications! Am 04.06.2018 um 17:00 schrieb Patrick Brunschwig: > The feature is not part of the pEp Engine for Enigmail yet, and > Autocrypt expects you to initiate the key transfer manually. Understood, so this is totally by design ATM, that my other keys didn't transfer. But again, as you state below, I am not even in the target audience for pEp mode at all, so this isn't really relevant anyway, right? > [...] >> 1. What is the *intended* behavior for someone who was using OpenPGP for >> years and is setting up stuff fresh? I know there are ways to export >> settings from Enigmail now, but back when I stopped using Thunderbird on >> Windows temporarily, Enigmail didn't have those features yet, and I >> didn't save the whole profile, just my keyring settings from GnuPG: > At first, you'll end up in pEp mode. If you configure any of your > accounts for Enigmail, or if you copy your profile from one computer to > the other, you'll end up in "Enigmail" mode. Ah, those are the triggers, then. I just tried it, and Enigmail did warn me when I enabled the OpenPGP support checkbox for an account that this would turn off junior mode. I think I am getting now how this is supposed to work. >> Is Enigmail really supposed to create a new pair of keys automatically >> when I supply GnuPG with a key ring that has exactly one pub/sec key >> pair in it? > No. In fact, Enigmail does not create keys. In pEp mode, all key > management is done by the pEp engine. That's a bug in the pEp engine > that needs to be fixed by the pEp developers. OK! > I would think that for existing users of Enigmail, the pEp mode is not > always perfectly suitable. It's really intended for beginners who just > want encryption without needing to care about anything. OK, then I will configure my setups to use my keys and therefore Enigmail mode to get mostly the behavior as before. Again, thank you for the clarifications! Marco _______________________________________________ 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
