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Seblu | 1 Aug 22:14
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Re: PGP/MIME is global, why not by account ?

Seblu wrote:
> hello, i've a suggestion for next enigmail version. I've several
> accounts and someone must not use PGP/MIME signature (e.g. news server
> account) and someone must use it to send html mail (without it's
> impossible to send mail in HTML). The problem: default option to use or
> not use PGP/MIME are global to all accounts.
> 
> For the time being i've selected "Allow to use PGP/MIME" in
> OpenPGP->Preferences->PGP/MIME and manualy i check case "Use PGP/MIME
> for this message".
> 
> What would be wonderful is a checkbox in Account Settings->Account
> name->OpenPGP Security->Message composition default which let me choose
> if by default i use PGP/MIME or not.
> 
> Do you think it's possible ?
> 
Any developer can spend time to do this ? It's not a good feature to add ?

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John Clizbe | 2 Aug 04:09
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Re: PGP/MIME is global, why not by account ?


Seblu wrote:
> Seblu wrote:
>> hello, i've a suggestion for next enigmail version. I've several
>> accounts and someone must not use PGP/MIME signature (e.g. news server
>> account) and someone must use it to send html mail (without it's
>> impossible to send mail in HTML). The problem: default option to use or
>> not use PGP/MIME are global to all accounts.
>> 
>> For the time being i've selected "Allow to use PGP/MIME" in
>> OpenPGP->Preferences->PGP/MIME and manualy i check case "Use PGP/MIME
>> for this message".
>> 
>> What would be wonderful is a checkbox in Account Settings->Account
>> name->OpenPGP Security->Message composition default which let me choose
>> if by default i use PGP/MIME or not.
>> 
>> Do you think it's possible ?
>> 
> Any developer can spend time to do this ? It's not a good feature to add ?

Yes, *any* developer can spend time to implement this. That is the beauty of
open source development. Feel free to submit a patch.

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Fabio Pietrosanti | 2 Aug 16:26
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Symmetric encryption with enigmail

Hi all,

i noticed that thunderbird+enigmail is capable of decrypting
OpenPGP/MIME messages encrypted with a symmetric password.

However it doesn't expose the functionality to encrypt messages with a
symmetric password (gpg "-c" switch).

What's the enigmail team opinion on implementing such functionality?

Does it break something or could be implemented with few line of code?

Fabio
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Patrick Brunschwig | 2 Aug 17:03

Re: Symmetric encryption with enigmail


Fabio Pietrosanti wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i noticed that thunderbird+enigmail is capable of decrypting
> OpenPGP/MIME messages encrypted with a symmetric password.
> 
> However it doesn't expose the functionality to encrypt messages with a
> symmetric password (gpg "-c" switch).
> 
> What's the enigmail team opinion on implementing such functionality?
> 
> Does it break something or could be implemented with few line of code?
> 
> Fabio

I think in principle it would not be overly difficult to do that.

-Patrick
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Marc Drewing | 4 Aug 11:30
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Private

Hallo,

I must install Thunderbird again after a crash. I have had import the
.asc files (public key or?) and now I can`'t send emails because my
secret key is missing. What can I do?? Can I copy the secret key any
where?? Please help....

Marc Drewing
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Olav Seyfarth | 4 Aug 13:31

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Hi Marc,

> I must install Thunderbird again after a crash. I have had import the
> .asc files (public key or?) and now I can`'t send emails because my
> secret key is missing. What can I do?? Can I copy the secret key any
> where?? Please help....

if you never backuped your keyring or private key and all data from your
harddrive is gone, then you have no chance getting back your encrypted
content.

If you did upload your public key to a keyserver, then you have an even
bigger problem since you cannot revoke a public key without a private key.

But if you're just asking which files of your backup to restore, then look
for "secring.gpg". Per default on Linux, it resides in ~/gnupg, on Windows
in C:\Documents and Settings\<your_UID>\Application Data\GnuPG. Along with
it, there are pubring.gpg and trustdb.gpg. The easiest way to restore is
to move
your newly installed and partly empty GnuPG profile directory aside and
replace it by the one from your backup.

Olav
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Graham | 4 Aug 14:17
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On Friday 04 August 2006 10:30, Marc Drewing wrote:

> I must install Thunderbird again after a crash. I have had import the
> .asc files (public key or?) and now I can`'t send emails because my
> secret key is missing. What can I do?? Can I copy the secret key any
> where?? Please help....

The problems you are experiencing are the result of the way GnuPG works, 
for which Enigmail is a front end.

If you haven't got your private key, you cannot start the process of 
decryption, nor can you encrypt messages with that key.  This is 
finite: there are no options which will help you here.

I suggest you revoke your public key (you did generate a revocation key 
when you generated your key pair didn't you?) by sending the public key 
plus your revocation key to a public keyserver.  This will let anyone 
who tries to use your key that it has been revoked.  If you haven't 
generated a revocation key, there is no way to get rid of the keys on 
the keyservers.

In any case, generate another key for the same email address.  In 
Account Settings->OpenPGP Security change the key ID and cross the box 
at the bottom of the page to send your OpenPGP identity in a header.  
This will add an added header which shows the key to which you want 
messages encrypted and I believe (though I've not examined like 
messages) that the header is sent even when you do not encrypt or sign 
the message.

Now, in future, save your keyring and other keys in .asc files to a
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Richard | 4 Aug 23:24
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enigmail-trunk fails to install on tbird-trunk: "Incompatible Extension"

hi,

i've tbird 30a1 (20060804) installed on OSX 10.4.7.

i've DL'd latest enigmail nightly:

	Mozilla/Thunderbird Trunk (3.0x)
	Date: 2006-08-04
	Enigmail: 0.94.1+
	XPI: enigmail-trunk-tb-darwin-trunk.xpi

on attempted install, i get an error:

	Incompatible Extension
	Enigmail 0.94.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible 
with Thunderbird 3.0a1. (Enigmail 0.94.1 will only work with Thunderbird 
versions from 1.5.0 to 2.0a1)

Is there a fix required/available here?

thanks,

richard

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Patrick Brunschwig | 6 Aug 17:09

Re: enigmail-trunk fails to install on tbird-trunk: "Incompatible Extension"


Richard wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i've tbird 30a1 (20060804) installed on OSX 10.4.7.
> 
> i've DL'd latest enigmail nightly:
> 
>     Mozilla/Thunderbird Trunk (3.0x)
>     Date: 2006-08-04
>     Enigmail: 0.94.1+
>     XPI: enigmail-trunk-tb-darwin-trunk.xpi
> 
> on attempted install, i get an error:
> 
> 
>     Incompatible Extension
>     Enigmail 0.94.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible
> with Thunderbird 3.0a1. (Enigmail 0.94.1 will only work with Thunderbird
> versions from 1.5.0 to 2.0a1)
> 
> Is there a fix required/available here?

According to recent error reports, Enigmail does currently not run with
Thunderbird trunk. You'll have to wait until that's fixed.

See http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14835 for details

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Richard | 6 Aug 17:13
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Re: enigmail-trunk fails to install on tbird-trunk: "Incompatible Extension"

hi patrick,

> According to recent error reports, Enigmail does currently not run with
> Thunderbird trunk. You'll have to wait until that's fixed.
> 
> See http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14835 for details

thanks for the reference!

iiuc, tho, that relates to enigmail's *function* ... whereas, i can't 
even get it *installed* due to a complaint about MaxVersionOverride.

they wouldn't be the same issue, would they?

richard

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