Re: [Enigmail] Key not found or not valid

2013-01-14 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, Key not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might have expired. a key to be used for signing must either be valid, non-expired and trusted, (which IS what you should do) [or Enigmail could be set to use non-trusted anyway (which is meant for

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail 1.5 breaks non-ascii charaters on display

2013-01-15 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Sec, we upgraded to enigmail 1.5, and since then all non-ascii characters (umlauts like ä ö ü) appear broken on display in encrypted e-mails. see https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/106/ Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP

Re: [Enigmail] Key not found or not valid

2013-01-17 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi 'soportek' (is that your name?), OK, so I sum up. Your co-worker used her key to sign messages using Enigmail until recently but can no longer, she receives Key not found or not valid, and sending is aborted. You verified that the key is

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail destroyed HTML formatting on Thunderbird, how to get it back?

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi anonymous mexon using spamgourmet, I agree that it is a bug if you install Enigmail, tell the wizard to NOT make changes, try out Enigmail WITHOUT saving decisions permanently, uninstall it and then not find the same settings as before - at least it should warn that (and in which cases) this

Re: [Enigmail] First Encrypted Email

2013-02-20 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Bryant, Levy, don't post encrypted stuff to the list address. It cannot be read by most of us. That is because you always have to encrypt TO (the key of) someone. Thus only those the message was encrypted-to can read it. The list address has

Re: [Enigmail] Oddity with key management tool

2013-03-19 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Gabriel, thank you for your notice. I agree that the GUI doesn't state that it changes a global value, and that - even if one does not have any key yet - it is more likely that - while generating a key - a user just wants to create one

Re: [Enigmail] Setup/configuration problem

2013-04-03 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Evan, Failed to initialize Enigmail. it does say Enigmail, not Engimime, yes? EM 1.5.1 is correct for TB 17. Make sure you've either installed -both- from the RHEL repos -or- downloaded from the according project homepages. And they should

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail that was working suddenly stopped

2013-06-12 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Andrew, gpg: problem with the agent: End of file Any suggestions? No, unfortunately not. But the GnuPG Users Mailing list [1] would be a good place to ask since it seems to be a gpg-agent issue. [1]

Re: [Enigmail] Private key import via email workflow

2013-07-12 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Stefan, For signatures it is maybe not so important, but what if you get an important, encrypted, email? Then you will be unable to read it on your phone unless the sender also encrypted it with your phone key. sure. On the other hand,

Re: [Enigmail] Private key import via email workflow

2013-07-12 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Stefan, please do describe your goals and assumptions on your help site as you did here. Concerning Enigmail UI changes you did not convince me that such feature/change would be used by many. An since only Patrick actually implements stuff,

Re: [Enigmail] (no subject)

2013-07-19 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Fabio, So, the only solution is to convince all my contacts start with one ... I can only change email services, like tormail or another alternative... I do not know tormail in detail, but assume that finally your message will be stored at the destination user's service provider. If so,

Re: [Enigmail] Reply produces blank form for one contact only

2013-09-30 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi list, I wonder if it has something to do with the 'Folder Account' extension. please note that Chris Eykamp just released Folder Account 6.0 to address the issues with TB 24. It's working fine again for me with the latest update from AMO.

Re: [Enigmail] Change to Nightly Builds

2013-10-02 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hallo Patrick, There is now one single nightly build, created on Linux, that works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux ... Frage: was ist mit anderen OS wie FreeBSD etc? Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla

Re: [Enigmail] opening old messages

2013-10-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Bryant, If the old message was encrypted to the old key the only the old key will be able to decrypt the message. Do you still have access to your old key? is the message you sent and that is saved in your Sent folder verified fine? If so,

Re: [Enigmail] old messages opening issue

2013-10-10 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Lucifer, 1)as u wrote to me i did import---refreshed--- the old key on the new installed virsions of enigmail and thunderbird, but nothing happened it had asked me for my passphrase and i tried the old one as well as the new one after

Re: [Enigmail] OpenPGP PhotoID

2013-10-24 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Gabriel, When I receive a signed message and I click on details on the green bar the entry View OpenPGP Photo ID is greyed out. Nevertheless in de View Key Properties I can see the PhotoID. I confirm that this is a bug in EM 1.6 - on

Re: [Enigmail] behaviour of enigmail 1.6 in Thunderbird 24.2.0

2013-12-17 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Philip, 1. import public key : this seems to work and the imported key is immediately displayed in Kleopatra but not in Thunderbird key manager until Thunderbird is restarted this is not entirely related to your situation having just

[Enigmail] Citation gone upon connection failure

2014-01-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi List, using Enigmail in the train with a unreliable mobile internet connection I now experienced twice that the sending of the message was cancelled due to lost connection to my server. I get an error and retry/resend when connection is back,

Re: [Enigmail] Users ....

2014-03-01 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Saeed Moafi, empty messages sent to the list What did you try to ask? Olav -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications ___ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net

Re: [Enigmail] Plug-In to decrypt messages in batch mode

2014-03-01 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Jose, I want to store mail permanently decrypted in local thunderbird folders by writing a plug-in for thunderbird to scan local folders for encrypted messages and have them decrypted. there are quite some users who'd appreciate such an

Re: [Enigmail] can't read my own crypto msg

2014-03-12 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Michael, i write buddy a msg, send it as cryptomail OK i will take a look to the body of the cryptomail. I did not understand what you mean by that. i go to my send folder. enigmail shows me a empty msg?! and the errormsg: secret key

Re: [Enigmail] Using Enigmail for mailing lists

2014-03-16 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Boris, me and some friends of mine want to exchange encrypted emails on our mailing list. Does enigmail support encryption for multiple recepients? How would you encrypt information on a mailing list? I know of three ways to achieve

Re: [Enigmail] test

2014-03-21 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Keen, Hey... before you test on using the list address, use mine (or yours, or Adele as pounted out in the QuickStartGuide on enigmail.net). Your posts were not signed nor encrypted (encrypt to a list dowsn't make sense though). Olav - --

Re: [Enigmail] getting into the net

2014-03-22 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi anonymous user, please send infos pertaining to PGP app onto my handy!? How to get mob. application? flame don't you think you should search yourself first? Tell a bit about yourself and what you've tried before asking? Tell about the

Re: [Enigmail] enigmail vers for seamonkey 2.25

2014-04-16 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Maria, Seamonkey is now in vers. 2.25, but unfortunately enigmail has not yet a version working with it (unless the nightly built would work). I don't use SeaMonkey but both the latest release and the current nightly should work fine with

Re: [Enigmail] question regarding a new sending preferences layout

2014-05-04 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Heavy encryption maybe ? H. auto-magic vs. manually-controlled ? My 2 ct Olav -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications ___ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net

Re: [Enigmail] question regarding a new sending preferences layout

2014-05-06 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Nico, Should the manual preferences be kept when switching to convenient and back to manually OR is it good enough that switching to convenient switches back to defaults and then when you switch to manually you have to do your changes

Re: [Enigmail] auto-send-encryption option now available in nightly build of enigmail

2014-05-10 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Nico, thank you for your work, I like the enhancements very much. Up to now (not tested much) the nightly seemst to install and work fine. I like the new sending settings dialog, have one remark though: it should be made clear, probably in

Re: [Enigmail] auto-send-encryption option now available in nightly build of enigmail

2014-05-10 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Nico, Note that you can switch to convenient/bequem while seeing what this selects and then switch back to manual with your settings before you switched to convenient. So, that demonstrates the convenient defaults. Nevertheless, the help

Re: [Enigmail] get me off this program please.

2014-05-18 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Annette, get me off this program please. To unsubscribe, use https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net To uninstall, head to Thunderbird's AddOns settings and uninstall from there. If you only installed

Re: [Enigmail] on/off/default in a menu

2014-06-07 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Nico, Dan, is it necessary to be able to reset to defaults? It complicates things... What's a default for in that situation (composing a new message)? In my opinion: just to have a decent initial state. Nothing more. After sending, that what

Re: [Enigmail] on/off/default in a menu

2014-06-08 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Nico, before I forget (long answers): I HIGHLY appreciate your efforts and to NOT want to put you down in any way. Just trying to help ... it is reset to state an email would have without forcing ... not common case ... not provided via

Re: [Enigmail] signing problem.

2014-06-13 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi David, would you be as kind as to open a bug for it so it's not forgotten? Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Dies ist

Re: [Enigmail] Will I lose my email address if I have to re-set it?

2014-07-07 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Neil, you wrote to the Enigmail user list. Welcome. But the issue you describe are about your e-mail address/provider/service - and that has absolutely nothing to do with Enigmail. Enigmail is about signing and encrypting messages. Please

Re: [Enigmail] Japanese

2014-07-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi anatak, Is there some way to have Japanese text encrypted ? not sure, but please try using PGP/MIME - that should do the trick. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Enigmail] problems with auto-encrypt

2014-07-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Daniel, i am seeing the following misbehavior with the 1.7 beta i packaged from yesterday (i have convenient encryption set as the default): When i reply to a message from someone for whom i have a key, more often than not, the

Re: [Enigmail] overeager key user ID matching

2014-07-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Daniel, thanks for opening the bug. Once i discover a given problem, i can set a per-recipient rule, but that'll only happen after i annoy my correspondent at least once Sorry, I forget this since I'm so used to my setting: personally, I

Re: [Enigmail] I DO NOT WANT TO COMPOSE IN PLAIN TEXT

2014-07-30 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Lachezar, I believe the OP is concerned about PLAIN-TEXT vs HTML composition, not the PGP/MIME vs INLINE PGP. I did understand this. But plaintext/HTML and inline/PGPMIME are linked: you may properly sign HTML messages, but not inline.

Re: [Enigmail] Force encryption?

2014-07-30 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Bill, I Write to create a message, then in Options there is a drop down that has options to select Encryption and Digitally signing. I select Encryption bingo. That Options menu is NOT from Enigmail, that's from Thunderbird itself. The

Re: [Enigmail] Force encryption?

2014-07-30 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Bill, If you force encryption and it works then, you probably found a bug I tried to reproduce this but could not. Steps to reproduce I took: * Enigmail is set to convenient encryption, messages are signed by default * S/MIME is not used by

Re: [Enigmail] Force encryption?

2014-07-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Bill, I had to go in to the account settings security for Thunderbird and remove the S/MIME certificate from there and then it worked great. while you may certainly do so, to remove the cert is not necessary. I use both S/MIME and OpenPGP

Re: [Enigmail] Key management by users, and key use by Enigmail/GPGWin/etc.

2014-08-06 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Roland, you no doubt have a need for email encryption. But remember: the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Robert stated that USB is not going to solve the issue since you cannot trust it: https://srlabs.de/badusb/ What is the

Re: [Enigmail] Key management by users, and key use by Enigmail/GPGWin/etc.

2014-08-07 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Philip, Does the recent news about vulnerability of usb devices to attacks such as described in 'badusb' [http://srlabs.de/badusb/] mean that the usb reader into which the gnupg smart card is inserted is also vulnerable to exploits?

Re: [Enigmail] Request: different position for signature message

2014-08-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Martin, Hi Patrick, Patrick wrote:We use the same place that Thunderbird ueses to display information about the message, such as "Thunderbird thinks this message is junk"/scam/... Martin wrote: The messages initiated by

Re: [Enigmail] encrypting drafts without a keyID

2014-08-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Daniel, engimail preference to save drafts encryptedly only works if a keyID is set Is this still the case? No, just tried with current nightly. Draft is saved encryptedly even if I set prefs to choose from email address. Olav - -- The

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail 1.7 vs. mailman lists

2014-08-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Martin, this should be looked into. Not to be forgotten, please open a bug for it. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Dies

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail and QuoteCollapse

2014-08-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Florian, since I run the new Enigmail 1.7, I run into troubles with the QuoteCollapse plugin. When a message is not parsed by Enigmail (unsigned/unencrypted), QuoteCollapse works quite well. When it is parsed by Enigmail, the plugin stops

[Enigmail] Enigmail team needs YOUR help/time

2014-08-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear Enigmail users, as you may know, the Snowden effect has raised some awareness among users. There are more feature requests than before now, but we also were roused to fix some longstanding issues and implement new ideas which yields new

Re: [Enigmail] please unsubscribe me

2014-08-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Russell, to unsubscribe, please search for unsubscribe here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net This link is attached to every message processed through this list. Olav -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Enigmail] CVE-2014-5369 - Enigmail 1.7.1 ?

2014-08-25 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Remi, Report says fixed in 1.7.1, but not released. Any planed date? working on it, no date fixed yet. else pick fix from SCM... which I will prefer to avoid For the meantime, you may uninstall your distro package, download the XPI from

Re: [Enigmail] CVE-2014-5369 - Enigmail 1.7.1 ?

2014-08-25 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Remi, I'm the distro enigmail maintainer, so ... Sorry, did not realise that. My answer was intended to help those suffering from problems with 1.7 to gap the time till 1.7.1 is released. Before 1.6 it was problematic to install other than

Re: [Enigmail] Android e-mail client for PKE

2014-08-25 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi *, I find Maildroid ads pretty harmless... I don't like ads, not on PC but even less on a tiny phone screen. Apart from privacy/security issues. I agree that the price for the paid version is too high though. Compared to other apps, yes.

Re: [Enigmail] Problem in Manjaro

2014-08-27 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Martin, Enigmail gives message that the key might be expired, and doesn't allow me to sign the message. I'm sure the key is not expired. The message is: The key was not found or is invalid. The (sub-)key could have been expired. for the

Re: [Enigmail] Compatibility issue with Whiteout Mail

2014-08-27 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Felix, this is a known bug in 1.7, your issue should be fixed if you use the current nightly. There will be a 1.7.1 shortly. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Enigmail] [UX] [UI] Attach Public Key entry in composition window

2014-08-28 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Michael, Whenever I first introduce users to Enigmail, we run into a UI issue. brilliant to know there are users out there doing that. I do so myself. It comes up when showing a user how to attach their public key to an email they are

Re: [Enigmail] [ANN] Enigmail v1.7.2 Available

2014-08-29 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi, Is there a devel mailing list ? please write to me and I'll forward your message. Hope that's OK for now. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [Enigmail] OpenPGP headers and lack of visibility in incoming mails.

2014-09-03 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Philip, Is there any way of having enigmail/Thunderbird highlight an OpenPGP header in an incoming mail ? I suppose a useful way would be to add its content to the 'Details/enigmail security info'. I second that this header would be more

Re: [Enigmail] draft copies encrypted?

2014-10-20 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Mike, sorry for my delay, forgot this in drafts after a TB restart ... is it normal now for Thunderbird/Enigmail to encrypt saved/draft copies ? My wife asked me the same thing after upgrading to 1.7.2. This might be a migration issue. Do

Re: [Enigmail] PhotoID not shown on windows

2015-01-28 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Patrick, I use tonight's nightly and gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.26 (Gpg4win 2.2.3) on Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit. I see no photo on HIS key (screenshot), with MY key show photo works fine! Olav -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications

Re: [Enigmail] New GnuPG 2.0.27

2015-03-18 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I confirm issues with Enigmail 1.8 in combination with GPG4win 2.2.4 (full). I see gpg: Oops: keyid_from_fingerprint: no pubkey twice and an error about key being more than once in trustdb along with a hint that MD5 sigs are rejected when

Re: [Enigmail] New GnuPG 2.0.27

2015-03-20 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi David, Googling this suggests it may be a conflict between gnome-agent and the gpa-agent. I am running Ubuntu 14.10. sorry, but this IS off-topic (for this list) now ;-) But there is some hint on

Re: [Enigmail] New GnuPG 2.0.27

2015-03-21 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert, the point was: is it possible to further use a key that has/had MD5 and now throws a warning by modifying it. If not, then the only way seems to be to delete the key - if one doesn't want to /allow-weak-digest-algos/ . Olav - -- The

Re: [Enigmail] New GnuPG 2.0.27

2015-03-20 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 installed GnupG 2.0.27, via Gpg4Win 2.2.4 reason is, that GnuPG 2.0.27 errors out if it detects keys using MD5. Workaround: use allow-weak-digest-algos in Enigmail or gpg.conf Is there a method to search for such keys? I definitely *don't know

Re: [Enigmail] Kickstarting smart cards

2015-03-16 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Anne, I've had an FSFE smartcard for around 3 years, without a clue about how to use it. I use it every day, in fact this messages is signed by it. Did you try to find out how to use it? There is some documentation, both on FSFE and on GnuPG

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail Toolbar

2015-03-28 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Mike, I think that INLINE/MIME, signed/unsigned and blank subject should not depend on each other. That is, having one set or not should not yield other results for another. Users would not expect this (and rather manually set it). We would

[Enigmail] PGP/MIME in web mail clients ( was: Re: some thoughts about usability)

2015-03-30 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Ian, I started off using PGP/MIME, it seemed neat. However, some contacts read their mail in web browsers, eg Gmail, and all they saw was the signature and could not view content of the message. It is true that web mail clients often do not

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail not honoring keyserver preferences in gpg.conf

2015-03-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Daniel, I tried searching the forum, obviously using the wrong terms, sorry No offense at all, thanks for reporting and for asking on the list! Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail Toolbar

2015-03-28 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Mike, there should be 3 selections: Encryption, Signing, and PGP/MIME I disagree. Aunt Sally will ONLY care about encrypt or not. More learned folks may want to change their default signing setting for specific messages. But only nerds care to

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail v1.8 Beta 1

2015-03-02 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Philip, from the strange little icon (3 small horizontal bars) on the right hand end of Thunderbird's Mail Toolbar. which is, on Windows at least, THE thunderbird MENU button, after all. It is this latter which gives most often defective

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail not recognizing rules

2015-02-24 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Shahzad, Am runningEnigmail version 1.7.2 (20140829-0917) on Thunderbird 31.4.0. For some reasons, my client is unable to implement the rules for encrypting messages, which is extremely frustrating. Is this a common problem? no, this is

Re: [Enigmail] unencrypted messages appear to be encrypted

2015-04-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi RLB, please specify precisely your systemsetup, GnuPG and Enigmail settings and the steps to reproduce your issue. Then, we might be able to help you. Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN

Re: [Enigmail] since 1.8.1 this eror when trying to safe a draft (was: Re: since 1.9.1 this eror when trying to safe a draft)

2015-04-15 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 15.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb John Dose: a respective key is on the keyring... Error while saving encrypted draft: The email address or key ID 'x...@.xx' cannot be matched to a valid, not expired OpenPGP key. Please ensure that you have

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail not usable animore

2015-04-13 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Jan-Peter, default-cache-ttl:24:0:lasse PINs im Cache nach N Sekunden verfallen Your default-cache-ttl and max-cache-ttl are set to 24 seconds. How do I change this? https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/basic.php Olav - -- The Enigmail

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail not usable animore

2015-04-13 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Jan-Peter, https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/basic.php nothing changed by changing entry from 1440 to 5 Minutes and retry opening message still get 14 Pineentry Windows. that may be a bug then, please send your log (of the session

Re: [Enigmail] https://www.enigmail.net/download/source.php contains http links

2015-04-18 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Daniel, I just noticed that https://www.enigmail.net/download/source.php seems to contain cleartext http links for the sourcecode tarballs (e.g. http://www.enigmail.net/download/source/enigmail-1.8.2.tar.gz). thanks for notifying, fixed by

Re: [Enigmail] Import of secret key fails.

2015-08-11 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryant, most probably, your own key is not trusted. Please call Key Manager from within Enigmail, right-click your key and set Trust to ultimate. Olav -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail keeps asking for the passphrase

2015-11-09 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nothing to apologise for - thanks for your investigation and for sharing your insights! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJWQH1wAAoJEKGX32tq4e9Wr9IMAKLxCsL3ui+Lue1j2/0EG/Rs

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail keeps asking for the passphrase

2015-11-05 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Oops, > use-agent" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf should rather have been > echo "use-agent" >> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf Olav - -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22

Re: [Enigmail] Own signature not valid?!?

2015-10-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Bernhard, > this is my first mail to this list. Welcome! > When I read the mail in the SENT folder I see: Signature could not > be verified. How could that be? You signed both messages with your RSA-4096 subkey 0xEC0C190F (main key

Re: [Enigmail] Own signature not valid?!?

2015-10-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Bernhard, Am 31.10.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Bernhard Kleine: [...] THIS message was NOT plaintext but HTML! If you use HTML, you MUST use PGP/MIME. If you want to use INLINE PGP (which is preferrable with mailing lists) then you MUST NOT use HTML

Re: [Enigmail] Key Management Owner Trust

2015-09-20 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please, folks. I appreciate that discussion very much. Each single statement. Those of kypto pros, enthusiasts, plain users and noobs. Because the product will be used by all of them. So: stay polite! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Enigmail] How does my recipient open my encypted email?

2015-12-10 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Kerry, > How does my recipient open my encypted email? maybe I missed some context but the straight answer is: Using OpenPGP* you cannot encrypt a message without having received the receipient's key upfront and using that key to *encrypt to*

Re: [Enigmail] no matching private/secret key found to decrypt message

2015-12-14 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Stanley, thanks, very clear now. I suspect that GnuPG itself cannot handle your key on the PC, so please open a Console (CMD), create a dummy text and try to encrypt to your key and decrypt afterwards, like C:\Users\Stanley\Desktop> echo

Re: [Enigmail] no matching private/secret key found to decrypt message

2015-12-14 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Stanley, > d:\Users\Stanley>gpg dummy.txt.gpg gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit > RSA key, ID 1FE7233B, created 2015-12-12 "Stanley Wai Lun CHEN > " gpg: decryption failed: No secret key that's what I expected: GnuPG itself

Re: [Enigmail] no matching private/secret key found to decrypt message

2015-12-13 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Stanley, the information provided does not suffice to pinpoint the issue. Did you generate that key in one go or generate it on one device and modify it on another (like adding the subkey). I ask because merging secret keys is NOT supported by

Re: [Enigmail] no matching private/secret key found to decrypt message

2015-12-13 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Stanley, > I generated the master key and subkey "separately" using APG I assume that you sign with your main key (which works in Enigmail) and encrypt-to/decrypt with your subkey (which doesn't). Since APG works, key properties should be fine.

Re: [Enigmail] Recover GPG password remembered by Thunderbird (passphrase in session)

2015-11-26 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks for posting a summary/howto! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJWVxuzAAoJEKGX32tq4e9Wh8sMAJgwrawsgkFxga9NJH+Rt5q/ 61z8OKtVin5RGcvVTr6XpEWdHRfM4O9VIFtF28ry9iXvGwSJvkFKHbrZOcIIHGbO

Re: [Enigmail] Help with learning how to sign and encrypt emails

2015-11-19 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Daniel, > I would like to learn about how to sign and encrypt emails because > of privacy and security concerns. Could someone please assist me? > I would like to learn sending signed or encrypted mail to fellow > trustees. sure, go ahead. Just

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail GnuPG4win issue

2016-06-03 Thread Olav Seyfarth
You really should get rid of Windows XP. I suspect that you have installed GnuPG 1.x alongside 2.x. The easiest would be to make sure you only have 2.x installed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Enigmail] Thunderbird update - gnupg and gnupg2

2016-03-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Kevin, if I try to uninstall gnupg, I get "You try to harm your system. To continue, type "Yes, do as I say!"" - well, you shouldn't continue. HOW did you remove gnupg? Using purge? Then your keys are gone. To check: What does "ls -l ~/.gnupg" give you?

Re: [Enigmail] Feature request

2016-03-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Robert, It would be nice if Enigmail could keep track of the last time Enigmail refreshed the keyring.  Then, every 30 days, Enigmail should prompt the user I second that. Olav -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For

Re: [Enigmail] Thunderbird update - gnupg and gnupg2

2016-03-24 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Kevin, OK, the bad news: Ignoring the warning wasn't a good idea, you acknowledged that. Was it just gnupg that was removed or may packages that depend on it? If so, your system is broken now. On the bright side, your keys are fine:

Re: [Enigmail] Enigmail Message Filters: Decrypt only

2016-03-26 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Marcus, random_seed must not be shared between the two machines while I tried to give an easy to follow step-by-step guide, Enigmail is about security. Sorry I missed that one. To combine easiness with security, add one further step to my guide:

Re: [Enigmail] UI Proposal

2016-03-23 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Robert, Three icons (for privacy, accountability, and integrity) should be a lot easier for newcomers to understand. full ACK! Along with an easy way to get the gory details if one wishes to inspect them. Looks like quite some work though (and icons

Re: [Enigmail] Delete photos from Public Key

2016-03-08 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Marco, Is there a way for me to delete photos? Enigmail doesn't provide a means to do it, but you may use the command line: Start CMD, issue "gpg --edit-key YOUR-UID", select the UIDs you want to delete using numbers, e.g. "4", "5" and then the command

Re: [Enigmail] OpenPGP.conf on September 8 and 9.

2016-05-19 Thread Olav Seyfarth
+1 Robert wrote: what has religion to do with encryption? It's not religious, and even if it were, it would still be okay. Olav -- The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications signature.asc

Re: [Enigmail] Asking for password many times?

2016-05-01 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Marco, I have set Enigmail to remember the password for the maximum time but, if I send an e-mail it asks for it and then if I go to the "sent" folder and click in the encrypted e-mail I sent, it asks again. Couldn't Enigmail be improved to avoid

Re: [Enigmail] migrating thunderbird with enigmail.

2016-06-20 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi anatak, I am migrating a thunderbird mailbox from windows to linux. Is there any tutorial how to migrate enigmail ? Enigmail features "export/import settings" in lates release versions, so make sure to use the latest release on both systems.

Re: [Enigmail] Have to killall and relaunch gpg-agent after every reboot..

2016-09-02 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi folks, May I suggest that you look for a recent version of Linux Mint? I definitely second that. Althought there still are quite some rough edges in Mint 18. For someone coming from Mac, elementary os may also be worth looking at. To install

Re: [Enigmail] REPLACE the eye-challenging gray text on website

2016-09-06 Thread Olav Seyfarth
Hi Jim, RJH wrote: > What I see is a dark gray, pretty much a charcoal hue. I see a very dark gray, too, on Firefox/Linux for the two pages you screenshotted. However, the FAQ page summaries are in a light gray until "opened". Olav -- The

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