On 2015-03-13 10:45, Philip Jackson wrote: > On 13/03/15 08:28, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: >> On 12.03.15 20:38, Philip Jackson wrote: >>> Using Thunderbird 31.5.0 with Enigmail version 1.8a1pre >>> (20150312-0013) on linux. >> >>> <snip> >> >>> For this spontaneous change to occur, one needs these factors to >>> exist : >> >>> 1. the 'To' field is in red type (with a red cursor) >>> 2. the 'To' field must be completed and not left blank >>> 3. the spontaneous change in message status occurs around five or six >>> minutes into the >>> creation of the email - the body can be blank or partly filled. >> >> Could it be triggered by auto-saving a draft message? > > Thanks Patrick - you're spot on ! After all the years of using it, I didn't > even know Thunderbird did periodic backups. I've never seen a backup > directory > in the file system nor in the profiles. However, it was doing a backup every > 5 > minutes.
(Draft mails go in a local "drafts" folder that presumably is stored the same way as any other mail folder. You can also view the folder from within TB, same as any other.) > Further testing shows pretty well that the automatic backup is linked with a > change in the settings in the "Enigmail Encryption and Settings" dialog box. > Prior to the backup interval, only the sign check box was ticked. After the > backup interval, the encrypt box was ticked and the sign box was blank. The message becoming encrypted may be a symptom of drafts being saved encrypted. This *ought* to be decoupled from whether or not the message is ultimately *sent* encrypted, but I'd believe a bug exists here. I might also believe that signing is the same way; probably the draft is not signed (that seems rather silly, after all). Again, this *ought* to be decoupled from how the message is finally sent, but... > The change induced by Thunderbird seems to be one way only : sign -> encrypt. > It > doesn't reverse itself back to 'sign only' after a further backup period. But > if > you reset to 'sign only', after another backup period, it flips again to > encrypt. That isn't surprising if what's happening is the settings for how the draft is saved are overwriting how you've asked the mail to be sent... -- Matthew _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
