Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird wants to encrypt
On 03/26/2015 12:55 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
IFAIR this wasn't encryption for sending the emails, but rather for saving draft messages in an encrypted form on the IMAP server. There's an option to disable this, but I don't remember by heart.
There is usually no draft involved. It gets sent out encrypted. Also, it happens with Thunderbird, but not Seamonkey, so far as I've noticed. I've also noticed other ways in that Thunderbird appears flakey (sorry for the technical jargon). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 3/26/2015 10:49 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 03/26/2015 12:55 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
IFAIR this wasn't encryption for sending the emails, but rather for saving draft messages in an encrypted form on the IMAP server. There's an option to disable this, but I don't remember by heart. There is usually no draft involved. It gets sent out encrypted. Also, it happens with Thunderbird, but not Seamonkey, so far as I've noticed.
I've also noticed other ways in that Thunderbird appears flakey (sorry for the technical jargon).
This can happen if you have opportunistic encryption set on in Tbird. There was a bug, where if it found a key for the first recipient the CCs were encrypted the same way. This would bite me when I replied to a list member as well as the list (which is risking a rebuke anyway), and the mail to both would be encrypted with the first person's key. I haven't seen this happen in a while, so it may be fixed. If inigmail could find a key for a person, it would use it. If you have automatic key fetching turned on you may end up with more keys than you know you have. But if you positively know that there was no key, then there was a draft, which happens in Tbird when you pause typing for any reason. It is put in the draft folder encrypted with YOUR key. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/26/2015 02:15 PM, John M Andersen wrote:
This can happen if you have opportunistic encryption set on in Tbird. There was a bug, where if it found a key for the first recipient the CCs were encrypted the same way.
This would bite me when I replied to a list member as well as the list (which is risking a rebuke anyway), and the mail to both would be encrypted with the first person's key. I haven't seen this happen in a while, so it may be fixed.
There is no cc, just a list address.
If inigmail could find a key for a person, it would use it. If you have automatic key fetching turned on you may end up with more keys than you know you have.
But if you positively know that there was no key, then there was a draft, which happens in Tbird when you pause typing for any reason. It is put in the draft folder encrypted with YOUR key.
There is absolutely no key for the list. As for the draft folder, this is only a very recent problem. I have been using Thunderbird for many years. Also, the message was sent out with the encryption. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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