Dear all, after using enigmail 2.0.7 for a while with Thunderbird 52.8.0 on debian, I didn't realize any changes concerning PEP mode. This Thunderbird and enigmail installation was upgraded from former versions.
Now I installed these from scratch on a new debian device, imported my PGP keys via the gpg2 shell command and faced 5 unexpected things: - The program did not ask, if I ever wanted to create PEP keys for all my mail accounts available in thunderbird, but they were created without informing about that. - The program sent the created public PEP key within mails without my knowledge, because that is the default setting (and in the settings page, I thought, this option would refer to my formerly created PGP key) - When deleting the PEP keys, the program recreates these at the next Thunderbird start without asking (While these are created in the background, the window "administrate keys" won't show for a while when selected in the enigmail menu) - It took me about half a workday to test the settings and find the "Non-PEP mode" which provides the functionality, I had before on the old installation and which I expected to have with the new one. - The subjects will be encrypted by default - this might be useful because of data protection, but it was not transparent, that this is a major difference to former behaviour. I am an advocate of PGP, Thunderbird and enigmail since a long time and not a newbie to IT topics - but to be honest - currently I can understand users complaining about this unexpected behaviour. I didn't believe this before, because my same version on the old device behaved completely different. When there are two completely different modes of enigmail - one with automatic key generation and the other with the "expert mode options", this should be more transparent - especially the program should ask before generating anything automatically and attaching these keys to mails without my knowledge. In general, I'm happy that enigmail exists and don't want to blame anyone - I am a developer myself - but this is absolutely not "pretty easy" from the user's perspective (no matter if newbie or someone with existing PGP keys). Regards, Sarah _______________________________________________ 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
