Obviously, my own bug report regarding this has been lost. I reported the same problem some weeks ago, and somebody said this problem would be solved with 78.6.0.
However, I can definitely confirm that the problem is NOT solved in 78.6.0. @Thunderfan has described exactly what happens. I have tested this under Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 7, each with TB 78.6.0. I am aware that Thunderbird is free software with large parts made by volunteers. However, I would also like to make clear that this is not a low-priority problem and that such a long time to fix it is just not acceptable, even if it's free software. That problem is putting more and more pressure on us with each day it remains unfixed. We are a company which often receives invoices as PGP-encrypted attachments in messages which are not encrypted in whole (only the attachments are encrypted). Since we have upgraded our PCs to TB 78 in the end of last year, not having come to the idea that such a basic and important function would be broken by the update, we have a massive problem in our accounting now. I know other companies and even private persons who also receive invoices and other important, sensitive documents as PGP-encrypted attachment, and suffer similarly. Our current "solution" is that the administrators ask the users to save the attachments in encrypted form, and use GnuPG on the command line to decrypt them, which means using the users' private keys. This whole process is completely not acceptable under various aspects, among them important legal aspects and the EU GDPR. If it doesn't get fixed soon, we'll probably have to switch to Outlook. We definitely won't go back to TB 68 where this was working somehow. So I would be glad if we could get a honest and definitive statement from a developer here. We can really understand if this won't get fixed because it is too difficult, is not of high priority from the developers' point of view, or takes too much time. But then please make a clear statement that you won't fix it in the next time. Once again, that would be fair enough, but please let us know about it. Despite that problem, I'd like to say a big thanks to the development team for all your effort and for providing TB and OpenPGP free of charge. It has been, and still is, a revolution. Best regards and a happy new year! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1902801 Title: Encrypted attachments cannot be opened or saved as decrypted files Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Arch Linux: Confirmed Bug description: I have been using enigmail in thunderbird until I upgraded Ubuntu and with it thunderbird to the latest version 1:78.3.2+build1-0ubuntu1 As enigmail is now integrated in thunderbird, I have gone through the painful upgrade process (it does not allow to look into passwordmanager for the pasphrase of the gpg keys it wants to import by blocking all other windows), and decryption of emails now works. But when looking at a decrypted email, fully being able to read the text content, when I want to use the Menu option "Decrypt and Open" by right clicking on an attachment (pdf in this case), nothing happens. What I expect to happen: The pdf file being shown to me in the pdf viewer. Or some error being displayed, or maybe I am asked for my gpg passphrase again for additional security. When trying the option "Decrypt and save as", next I can select a folder and filename, (the pdf name without .gpg) and chose "save" - but when looking into that folder, there is no decrypted file. (I tried this plenty of time, I am sure its not there, and I did this action before the upgrade many times successfully). What I would expect: the attached file without the .gpg suffix (the filename proposed when opening the dialog, which I did not change) in the selected directory. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.10 Release: 20.10 $ apt-cache policy thunderbird thunderbird: Installed: 1:78.3.2+build1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:78.3.2+build1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:78.3.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1902801/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
