[Enigmail] Updating 'Enigmail Configuration Manual'.
Greetings, I believe that the /'Enigmail Configuration Manual/' found at https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/userprefs.php needs to be updated. Everywhere it references 'UI: OpenPGP Preferences' but I fail to find any 'OpenPGP' menu in Thunderbird. I do see 'UI: Enigmail Preferences'. Also, I cannot find the corresponding UI for 'user_pref(extensions.enigmail.noPassphrase,false);'. Is there such an option still available from the UI? Using Enigmail 1.7.2. Best regards, Hans Deragon ___ 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
Re: [Enigmail] Updating 'Enigmail Configuration Manual'.
On 31/12/14 10:54, Hans Deragon wrote: Also, I cannot find the corresponding UI for 'user_pref(extensions.enigmail.noPassphrase,false);'. Is there such an option still available from the UI? Using Enigmail 1.7.2. In Thunderbird, go to the Preferences dialog : Advanced / General tab and click on 'Config Editor' When the config editor opens, type in the search box 'extensions.enigmail' to see the full listing of enigmail user preferences. Philip signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ 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
Re: [Enigmail] Updating 'Enigmail Configuration Manual'.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On 31.12.14 10:54, Hans Deragon wrote: Greetings, I believe that the /'Enigmail Configuration Manual/' found at https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/userprefs.php needs to be updated. Yes, documentation is lagging considerably behind code and UI development. We are aware of this but we are the lacking manpower to keep both synchronous. Everywhere it references 'UI: OpenPGP Preferences' but I fail to find any 'OpenPGP' menu in Thunderbird. I do see 'UI: Enigmail Preferences'. The whole menu was renamed from OpenPGP to Enigmail because people can better identify this with the name of the Extension they installed. Enigmail is the name of the website, the mailinglist, etc. OpenPGP is the standard used by Enigmail, or better: the underlying GnuPG. Also, I cannot find the corresponding UI for 'user_pref(extensions.enigmail.noPassphrase,false);'. Is there such an option still available from the UI? This option is still in the preferences panel, but will be hidden if you use a GnuPG version 2.0, where gpg-agent is used to handle passphrases. In fact, this option is only necessary for gpg version 1.x and for handling keys without a passphrase, a very rare use case. HTH Ludwig -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUo9XkAAoJEA52XAUJWdLjmUwH+wV90hUFtFRjNOXdYm4+HnEw 6CWDREg+ncM53Zt36ILmh4NDNf6cYAzJaoRnvo5mRvJOsMkN5sQ1SuM7gIE8Yspq wRLGpzfiC6OjPjAc9E28nolvDpJOho+NthwtnDEgK/jXk7DCjlEHbXS5v56EABPE gDGi7nkfY7ZfkUyXElIsDp4U5DiUqQiuuu8qzmqdcgqAn6q3TQOO5cKvBwEqWf10 fBz0SzRGFAU1iF1l1muGJHef8lACCfLvC7eqHcLDbB+oP5M+9uXG+SNXcC48EiuA sXUpNp2JBgMYZPEMPbmQ7n1dTkm62J6+nmvLiMmOlO+kjd7bVzZ01p8CEtijYfw= =mbgm -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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
Re: [Enigmail] General Opinion and unverified bug
DISCLAIMER: I'm not sure if that happened exactly this way and if I can reproduce this bug, because I have no Windows machine to test this case. I'll later set up a new environment (on my Linux machine) to try if I can reproduce this bug. If you can reproduce this problem, we would be very interested in fixing it. If it is really the case, that this bug is existing, it would make me really angry. If the bug exists, then by all means get angry — I would, too. But if the bug *doesn’t* exist, then won’t you have gotten angry over nothing, and don’t you deserve better than that? With all due respect on the work of Enigmail and its developers, it's just terrible. Maybe you ask, if I haven't complained earlier. Yeah it is bad, and I'm too lazy to report bugs, but I also think that there is no chance to change a lot on Enigmail, because I have the feeling, that your reports will not change much, as long as the current developers of Enigmail are leading the development. Enigmail is in a very interesting position, and one that’s shared by a lot of open-source software projects: a lot of people rely on it but astonishingly few are willing to contribute in a meaningful way. Two members of the Enigmail team are “contaminated” by US government associations. John Moore used to work at Fort Meade when he was with the United States Marine Corps, and my father’s a United States federal judge. If either of us ever touched the codebase, many people would consider Enigmail to be “tainted” by our work. So right there, of the already-small group, two of us can’t do any development work. Other people have their own limitations: some of us aren’t coders, for instance. Of the small Enigmail team, we have only two people who (a) are free of government connections, (b) can program in JavaScript and C++, and (c) have experience writing secure software. Of these two, both have full-time jobs and neither can contribute more than a few hours a week to Enigmail. The problem is not that the current developers are lazy or not up to the job. The problem is that there are so few developers, with such limited time, maintaining a project that has to work consistently across over a dozen different operating systems, even when repackaged by people who may not do a particularly good job of it. It’s a really hard problem, made worse by a lack of funding and a lack of manpower. GnuPG and OpenSSL both have the exact same problem: they need to support a lot of platforms and have to do so with a tremendous shortage of resources. I hope I will find the time and be in a mood to write a new Icedove/Thunderbird-AddOn, so I can put Enigmail to the trash bin and you can complain about my AddOn. I promise you that if you can do a better job than we do, I’ll be one of the first people using your code. Until then, I’m going to stick with Enigmail. Thanks for your email, and please let us know if you’re able to recreate that bug. We really are interested in it. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ 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
