David H. Durgee wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> David H. Durgee wrote: >> >>> I believe you are correct. The problem is that I have forgotten the >>> pass phrase. I must have had Password Manager memorize it, as I can >>> still send encrypted messages. Unfortunately I am being prompted for >>> the pass phrase when I need to receive an encrypted message even though >>> I don't have to enter it to send one. >>> >>> I don't know how the Password Manager has stored the pass phrase. If I >>> did I should be able to copy/paste from the manager into the prompt and >>> then get it saved properly. >>> >>> Any idea how it is saved? >> >> Assuming PM has saved it -- and that's a big "if" -- you should be able >> to read it from the Password Manager >> <chrome://passwordmgr/content/passwordManager.xul>. >> >> Of course, there will be dozens or even hundreds of listings, depending >> on how much you've used the PM. But you can shorten the list by entering >> a keyword in the search window. For example, if I enter "gmail," I get >> only ten hits, of which nine are cases where I've used my gmail address >> as a username and the tenth one is my gmail mailbox password. Then you >> just right-click the listing and choose "copy password" (or you can >> click the "Show Passwords" button at lower right and write down what you >> see on a Post-It®). >> >> The key here will be to identify some useful keyword that will limit the >> number of hits. Otherwise you'll be there all day scrolling through the >> hits. >> > > That was exactly what I was hoping someone could tell me, what the > Enigmail plug-in would have keyed its pass phrase with. Then when I get > the prompt again I will copy/paste it from PM. I take it the keyword > cannot be part of the pass phrase itself, but must be part of the > username or site. > > The funny thing is now I am starting to see things working without > prompting me for the pass phrase. Strange. > > So perhaps this was a glitch of some sort that caused me to be prompted > instead of automated. > > Dave >
A further follow-up on this topic. My problem appears timing related. When I attempted to look at enigmail messages this morning I again got the pop-up requesting me to enter my pass phrase. This lead me to a suspicion I confirmed just a little while ago. I have found that I have no problems sending a signed or encrypted email, only dealing with incoming ones. So I sent an enigmail message to their testing robot address. After sending the message, which did NOT prompt me for the pass phrase, I found that I can now access received enigmail messages. I also was getting prompted for the pass phrase when looking at sent enigmail messages which I now can view after sending the test messages. So there appears to be something involving timing, which I assume points to a problem with the plug-in. I guess I will need to address this on their forum/newsgroup/whatever. Dave _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
