Michael Carbone: > On 03/27/2018 06:41 AM, 'Eric Barrett' via qubes-users wrote: >> On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 5:45:56 AM UTC-4, Michael Carbone wrote: >>> couldn't figure out a fast solution so I downgraded back to v1.9.9 for >>> the time being. >>> >>> You can do the same by downloading v1.9.9 and manually installing in >>> thunderbird (and unchecking "update addons automatically"): >>> >>> https://www.enigmail.net/download/release/1.9/enigmail-1.9.9-sm+tb.xpi?type=application/octet-stream >> >> Thanks, Michael. That worked for me. How can we follow any updates if this >> is an Enigmail bug, at least in so far as we can know when we can update to >> the latest version? > > You can follow the enigmail-users mailing list & the thread I created to > watch for updates: > > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/pipermail/enigmail-users_enigmail.net/2018-March/004854.html > > Michael >
Thanks, Michael, for being so on top of development of enigmail, which so many people rely on. My preferred fix would be for Linux enigmail users *never* to rely on the Thunderbird Add-ons/Extensions menu to install Enigmail -- instead, uninstall Engimail from Thunderbird Add-ons/Extensions menu, shut down Thunderbrid, then install Enigmail from your Linux distribution repository. In Qubes, shut down your email client Qube/AppVm, the from its templateVM: [user@debian-9 ~]$ sudo apt-get install enigmail [user@fedora-26 ]$ sudo dnf install thunderbird-enigmail The version is still 1.99 in the repos. Once 2.0 lands in debian-unstable I'll see if it breaks and file a qubes bug report, so that the qubes split-gpg community can be on top of this when the "stable" repos go to Enigmail 2.x -- note that debian only has 2.0 in the "experimental (rc-buggy)" repository, so it seems best not to trouble Qubes devs with this issue just yet. Some things for others on this thread to consider: * you shouldn't be using fedora-25 templates anymore, mate! They've not received security updates for many months now. Upgrade your template like so: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/template/fedora/upgrade-25-to-26 Or install from scratch and change your AppVM templates and system-wide default template. From a dom0 terminal: [username@dom0 ~] sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-fedora-26 * over years of doing community group thunderbird+enigmail trainings I've found that almost invariably Linux users will have some random problem using the Thunderbird Add-on/Extension version, and that the distro repo version fixes this. * using qubes split-gpg in some cases it seems that the passphrase prompt is broken, so you may have to clear the passphrase. Qubes developers consider the gpg passphrase to add no significant protection (i.e. an attacker of gaining access to your machine to obtain your private key would find it trivial to also obtain the passphrase; an exception might be for external backups, in which case your backup images and/or drive should be protected with a strong passphrase anyway). Stay safe out there, -m0ssy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/29017d82-08c9-0565-7bd2-89ee8e10b70d%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
