Re: [Enigmail] behaviour of enigmail 1.6 in Thunderbird 24.2.0

2013-12-20 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
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On 18.12.13 00:24, Philip Jackson wrote:
 On 17/12/2013 14:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On 15/12/2013 17:43, Philip Jackson wrote:
 1.  import public key : this seems to work and the imported key
 is immediately displayed in Kleopatra but not in Thunderbird
 key manager until Thunderbird is restarted
 
 This may not be entirely an Enigmail problem.  I have seen
 exactly that behaviour in Linux over a long period, when KMail
 couldn't see newly imported signatures but Kgpg reported them.
 As with Thunderbird, it required a restart to see them, so I came
 to the conclusion that maybe the signature file is read once
 only, when starting up.  Of course the reason could be something
 entirely different :-)
 
 Anne
 Olav's suggestion to try the 'Reload key cache' works fine.  The
 newly imported 'sender key' is then displayed in the Key Manager.
 
 This also explains why in one of my cases, the option  'View key
 properties' under the 'Details' button did not do anything.  Until
 the key cache is reloaded and the key info is present in the key
 manager, 'View key properties' does nothing - not even an error
 message.  As soon as the key cache has been reloaded, 'View key
 properties' works correctly.

Is there any error message in the Thunderbird Error Console (menu
Tools  Error console)?

- -Patrick

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Re: [Enigmail] behaviour of enigmail 1.6 in Thunderbird 24.2.0

2013-12-20 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
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On 15.12.13 18:43, Philip Jackson wrote:
[...]
 Second Case : after the 'import public key' option has been used
 and the key is available in the key manager and appears to be valid
 but I have not yet set a trust level nor signed the key.
 Thunderbird displays a purple band with the message 'Error -
 signature verification failed; click on 'Details' button for more
 information.'The Details button provides 5 usable options :
 
 1.  'OpenPGP security info': this gives a dialog box with 'Error -
 signature verification failed'  which we already knew so not very
 helpful. 2.  'copy OpenPGP security info'  - it doesn't do anything
 - doesn't copy anything to windows clipboard - presumably because
 nothing is known. 3. 'View key properties' :  this doesn't do
 anything despite multiple tries. (note that if the key manager is
 opened from OpenPGP/Key management, the subject imported key is
 visible provided that Thunderbird has been closed and restarted 
 after import.)  But Details button option 3 does nothing - no
 effect. 4. 'Sign sender's key' - this opens a dialog box which
 appears that it would work BUT why would one wish to sign a key
 where 'verification has failed' ? 5. 'Set owner trust of sender's
 key' : this opens a dialog box where the 'Key to trust' field is
 empty (you need to open key manager or Kleopatra to find the key 
 ID) - but again, on what basis would you set a trust level for an
 unidentified key for which verification had failed ?

This looks like a bug. Could I ask you to report a bug via
https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/new/

Thanks,
- -Patrick

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Re: [Enigmail] behaviour of enigmail 1.6 in Thunderbird 24.2.0

2013-12-20 Thread Philip Jackson


On 20/12/2013 15:48, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
 On 18.12.13 00:24, Philip Jackson wrote:
 On 17/12/2013 14:38, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On 15/12/2013 17:43, Philip Jackson wrote:
 1.  import public key : this seems to work and the imported key
 is immediately displayed in Kleopatra but not in Thunderbird
 key manager until Thunderbird is restarted

 This may not be entirely an Enigmail problem.  I have seen
 exactly that behaviour in Linux over a long period, when KMail
 couldn't see newly imported signatures but Kgpg reported them.
 As with Thunderbird, it required a restart to see them, so I came
 to the conclusion that maybe the signature file is read once
 only, when starting up.  Of course the reason could be something
 entirely different :-)

 Anne
 Olav's suggestion to try the 'Reload key cache' works fine.  The
 newly imported 'sender key' is then displayed in the Key Manager.
 
 This also explains why in one of my cases, the option  'View key
 properties' under the 'Details' button did not do anything.  Until
 the key cache is reloaded and the key info is present in the key
 manager, 'View key properties' does nothing - not even an error
 message.  As soon as the key cache has been reloaded, 'View key
 properties' works correctly.
 
 Is there any error message in the Thunderbird Error Console (menu
 Tools  Error console)?
 
 -Patrick
Nothing found in the Thunderbird error console.  I'm trying to read the enigmail
debug file but it's quite difficult (in fact, quite a bugger) with lines that
don't wrap. Copy and paste to a text editor needs returns and new lines put in
manually.

I'm still checking and I'll make a bug report over the weekend.
Philip


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