What version of Thunderbird are you running? What version of enigmail are you using? On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 20:24, Doris Behrendt <dorisbehre...@kaltensondheim.net> wrote: > > Hi list, > > first I want to say hello, I am a new subscriber. > > I have been using enigmail on a windows 7 machine with thunderbird for > half a year now. > > I have two key-pairs, one of length 2048 and one of length 4096. > > About two weeks ago I got error messages telling me that my key (the > longer one) had missing trust, out of nowhere, I did not change anything. > > Then I made updates and klicked everything to >>ultimate<< (though I > didn't have to do that before, it just worked before). > > Now the larger key has status >>validity: revoked<<, but I never revoked > that key by myself. > > This morning, when I opened an encrypted mail sent to me by someone, I > got another enigmail-error-message: > > <\beginquote> > > Decrypted message > > Error - no matching secret key found to decrypt message > > Note: The message is encrypted for the following user ID's / Keys> > > ... (Doris Behrendt) ..., > > ... (the name of the sender of the mail) ... > > <\stopquote> > > Yesterday I openend this message without any error message. After > restarting, the error message doesn't reemerge, it seems. > > So here are my questions: > > 1. Why do I have two keys? (perhaps I don't remember generating 2 keys, > perhaps it is the default to get 2?) > > 2. Why is my key revoked without me actively revoking it? It seems that > I cannot re-revoke it? > > 3. What mechanism is telling enigmail, which key to take, if there are > more than one? > > 4. What could be the reason for the error message telling me >>no > matching secret key found<<? > > > Thanks in advance, I must admit, I am a little bit confused ... I'm > going to do another restart, perhaps the reason is only some windows > updates? > > Doris > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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