Hi,

Any news on this issue?

Nahum

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Nahum Rozen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Same issue with me. I get the following:
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U0bse91IjmY/WJuSbDmem-I/AAAAAAAACWM/rjvG64dVwAMktmf9o5LFHz6X0bqXddRiQCLcB/s1600/Capture.JPG>
>
>
> On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 7:02:31 PM UTC+2, TE wrote:
>>
>> And BTW, the k9mail 5.203 update made no difference for me.
>>
>> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2017 18:01:09 UTC+1 schrieb TE:
>>>
>>> Even though this likely will not help your case - I think I tracked the
>>> cause of my problem to a sufficient extent, as follows:
>>>
>>> For the recipient in question, the e-mail address stored in my Android
>>> contact DB ("[email protected]") had a case difference w.r.t. the
>>> e-mail listed in the OpenPGP key DB ("[email protected]").
>>>
>>> Now formally, mailbox identifiers are indeed considered case-sensitive
>>> (see [1] for some RFC-level analysis). Therefore, the K-9 Mail/OpenKeychain
>>> combo was  technically right to tell me that no key was known for
>>> "john.doe".
>>>
>>> On the other hand, lots of organizations have their mail servers
>>> configured to ignore such case differences, with the effect that people are
>>> quite used to having them ignored.
>>> Like e.g. my contact who, based on this assumtion,  decided to
>>> capitalize his name in the e-mail address he attached to his PGP key - even
>>> though he had used and circulated only the all-lowercase variant of his
>>> e-mail address earlier.
>>> Or like me, so that it took me quite some time to realize what the heck
>>> went wrong.
>>>
>>> Anyway, the problem vanished after I modified the address in the
>>> contacts DB - to the capitalized version, which isn't correct but in my
>>> specific case luckily works.
>>> This is not a general solution, but was my only option as the key DB
>>> entries cannot be modified.
>>>
>>> In conclusion, I think the best way for K-9 Mail/OpenKeychain to treat
>>> this situation would be to first try the current (case-sensitive) mode of
>>> retrieval, and if that fails, attempt a case-insensitive retrieval,
>>> If only the latter one succeeds, a warning could appear, so the user has
>>> a chance to think twice wether case-equivalence is indeed intended here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-
>>> US/69f393aa-d555-4f8f-bb16-c636a129fc25/what-are-valid-and-
>>> invalid-email-address-characters?forum=exchangesvradminlegacy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2017 16:35:56 UTC+1 schrieb [email protected]
>>> :
>>>>
>>>> hi, i have the very same issues since k9mail 5.203 update. is that a
>>>> bug or a feature ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 17:19:02 UTC+1 schrieb TE:
>>>>>
>>>>> No ideas folks? To expand on my problem description:
>>>>>
>>>>> Following a hint in a thread on the K-9 Mail Developers List, I made
>>>>> sure that the recipient in question is in my Android contacts DB (earlier
>>>>> it had not been present there).
>>>>> However, I'm still not able to send this contact a PGP-encrypted mail.
>>>>>
>>>>> So now my siutuation is:
>>>>> - using current PlayStore versions of K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain
>>>>> - recipient's public key are in OpenKeychain's key DB
>>>>> - For my own key is present in OpenKeychain's key DB as well (albeit 
>>>>> stripped,
>>>>> since I'm using an NFC OpenPGP card)
>>>>> - recipients e-mail (the one shown as associated to his public PGP key
>>>>> in OpenKeychain) is in Contacts DB
>>>>> - OpenKeychain is registered in K-9 account settings
>>>>> - K-9 has permission to access OpenKeychain
>>>>>
>>>>> Nevertheless, no recipient key is found when I try to send a newly
>>>>> composed mail to the receiver with encryption selected.
>>>>> Which necessary condition for sending encrypted mail did I miss?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 12:15:02 UTC+1 schrieb TE:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using current versions of K-9 and OpenKeychain from Play Store, i can
>>>>>> receive and decrypt encrypted mails fine. Really impressive work,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However sending encrypted mails does currently not work for me. K-9
>>>>>> does not find any keys for the recippient.
>>>>>> I confirmed that
>>>>>> - the recipient's key is present in OpenKeychain's key DB
>>>>>> - it is marked as trusted there
>>>>>> - and his identity shows exactly the same e-mail address I am using
>>>>>> when attempting to send an encrypted e-mail
>>>>>> Any ideas on how to fix this, or even just how to debug what's going
>>>>>> on?
>>>>>> I already revoked  and re-instantiated K9's access to openkeychain,
>>>>>> as per some earlier suggetsion from this list, but to no avail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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