Re: [Enigmail] Getting GPG keys from persons

john doe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/10/2019 11:13 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> 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.
>

Yep, sorry about that.

>> $ gpg[2] --import
>
> Is it enough to have up-to-date keys in Enigmail?
>

You'll know when you try it out!

> 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.
>

Should have said Distro/OS! :)

>>
>>>> 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?
>

Enigmail relies on GPG so I would say it is worth testing and see how it
goes.

--
John Doe

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