Re: [Enigmail] Thunderbird auto-encryption issues

Patrick Brunschwig <[email protected]> Sat, 11 May 2019 19:00:09 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Autocrypt is a standard that allows to send your public key with every
message, along with a preference for how to deal with encryption. I.e.
the sender chooses how he/she prefers to get emails. In that particular
case the sender has specified to prefer unencrypted emails.

If you want to overwrite the sender's preference, you'll need to create
a per-recipient rule for that email address.

-Patrick


On 11.05.2019 18:55, Rémi Saurel wrote:
> Thanks Olav, Sebastian,
> 
> You two gave me a hint on the problem.
> 
> First, I did not realise that the debug log did not update itself in
> live: I had to close the window and reopen it to get something meaningful.
> 
> Then, parsing the relevant log, it seems that there is a per-recipient
> rule: an autocrypt:// one. This particular recipient must have enabled it.
> I went exploring the per-recipient rules before, but it was (and still
> is) empty. Thus i was clueless…
> 
> I am not familiar with Autocrypt at all, I've read that it only starts
> encrypting after some sort of agreement/handshake between the 2 parties.
> I do not know how to complete the process with Enigmail :)
> 
> One solution that would fit me well would be to know where these
> autocrypt:// rules are stored, and delete them. The party I try to
> communicate with is a pal of mine, and will be plenty satisfied by
> receiving encrypted/signed mail, and I do not like HIS settings
> impacting on mine.
> But perhaps I don't grasp the benefit of this Autocrypt thing?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Rémi
> 
> 
> Le 11/05/2019 à 18:12, Sebastian a écrit :
>> On 2019-05-11 17:05, Rémi Saurel wrote:
>>> But there is this one address, which as soon as I add it to the
>>> recipient list, causes the following to happen:
>>> * Disabling auo signing of the my message
>>> * Do not enable encryption despite the corresponding public key being
>>> present in my keychain.
>> Did you check the per recipient rules?
>>
> 
> 
> Le 11/05/2019 à 18:15, Olav Seyfarth a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Rémi,
>>
>> you may want to provide a debug log - otherwise we can't see anything. :-)
>>
>> Make sure to close TB, restart it, compose the message in question,
>> enter the problematic address, check status is wrong, then save debug.
>>
>> Since that file does contain sensitive info, make sure to redact it first,
>> or send it to Patrick and me only.
>>
>> Olav
>>
> 
> 
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