Re: [Enigmail] Getting GPG keys from persons

MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,


Le 09/05/2019 à 18:14, john doe a écrit :
> On 5/9/2019 5:48 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 09/05/2019 à 17:11, john doe a écrit :
>>> On 5/9/2019 4:36 PM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I work with Irina, user of Thunderbird, who seems to have problems now
>>>> to get the up-to-date GPG key of her destination addresses. And these
>>>> keys expired, so she can no longer write to them with encryption.
>>>>
>>>> She uses Thunderbird 52, because as a blind user, she cannot use a newer
>>>> release due to major accessibility regressions.
>>>>
> 
> $ gpg[2] --update-keys

This command fails but seems to be replaced with --refresh-keys.

> $ gpg[2] --import

Is it enough to have up-to-date keys in Enigmail?

Thanks for the workaround anyway

> 
>>>
>>> On which distro is your user having accessibility issue(s) with TB?
>>
>> All the distros, unfortunately. We now test nightly directly and bugs
>> are reported. Let's hope someone can fix them, there are four critical
>> bugs and regressions.
>>
> 
> Am I suppose to assume that you are talking "linux" here?

Yes, you are right. I don't know the exact situation in details on Windows.

> 
>>> Accessibility related issue(s) should be deld with Thunderbird/mozilla.
>>
>> Yes, we do. Waiting for something there, we would love to maintain
>> Enigmail compatibility with this old release.
>>
> 
> I cant' talk about enigmail but I would look at using "gpg/gpg2"'s
> command line to work around this (see above).

Excellent idea. I just wonder if Enigmail needs something to take in
account gpg results? Or is it automated?

Thanks and best regards

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