In enigmail 1.7 and Thunderbird 31.0 : I received a message showing the enigmail blue header 'Part of the message signed, click on Details .....' Details showed the security info option and also options to :
View Key Properties Sign Sender's key Set owner's trust ... I tried the 'View Key properties' and nothing happened, not even an error message. I then opened enigmail's key management and sure enough, I didn't have the sender's key on my keyring. But, this is the strange part for me, I tried the 'sign sender's key' and 'set owner's trust' and they both seemed as though they were going to work - they opened up the appropriate dialog boxes. I didn't continue .. it seemed wrong to sign a key that one does not have. Enigmail offered no option connected to the email concerned to import the missing key. I know I could have done so from key manager. When I checked the enigmail preferences, keyserver tab, I did not have any keyserver address noted in the automatic download field. When I put a keyserver address there, and restarted thunderbird, the 'View key properties' option worked correctly - the key had been downloaded. It seems to me that it would be more logical, where the keyserver is not nominated in 'preferences', and the key is not on the keyring, to do the following : 1. not to offer the 'view key properties' option - to gray it out. 2. to gray out both the signing option and the trust setting option 3. to provide an option to import the key. or alternatively : 1. when 'view key properties' fails to find the key, offer an error message saying that the key is not present in the keyring and providing an option to import it 2. to gray out both the signing option and the trust setting option until such time as the key exists in the keyring.
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