Re: [Enigmail] mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed=true

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Apr 2019 10:21:13 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 20.04.2019 04:40, Andy Schroder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Enigmail re-sets mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed=false when thunderbird
> starts up. It's not totally clear to me of the reason for this, but I
> think it has something to do with inline PGP.
> 
> For years, I've been manually editing enigmail.js in my extensions
> directory to not do this, every time I update the extension version. It
> seems as though the most recent update I've done has switched over to
> keeping everything in an .xpi file, so it is even more of a nuisance for
> me to override this setting.

That's because of a change in Thunderbird.

> I never use inline PGP, only PGP/mime, so I don't really understand the
> reason for this setting. I've had zero problems over the years
> forcefully re-enabling mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed=true . Signed
> unencrypted flowed e-mails also work great. Is there any way you can not
> do this for people who use PGP/mime exclusively? How prevalent is inline
> PGP these days? Could you make a global "Use PGP/mime" setting that uses
> it for every identity and then not force
> mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed=false, or at least give people an option
> in the settings to not force mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed=false with a
> nice disclaimer?

The reason I'm not doing this is support: people ignore such warnings,
and then open bug reports.

> This mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed=false thing is the one an only
> drawback I see of having enigmail installed. Everything else enigmail
> does to thunderbird seems very passive to me (which is the right way to
> be). I've been very impressed with all of the other improvements that
> have been coming to enigmail over the last few years!

You don't need to edit the Enigmail source code to have this change
implemented and forever. You can create a file "user.js" in the
Thunderbird profile directory with the following content:

user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", true);

Then restart Thunderbird, and format=flowed will be enabled forever.

For details about user.js, see here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

-Patrick

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