Enigmail not asking for password when signing or encrypting

[Kenneth Loafman]

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Enigmail 2:0.95.0-0ubuntu4

When sending a signed or encrypted email Thunderbird hangs for several seconds then says that it cannot send the mail and asks, "Are your network settings correct?". Yes, they are! All I have to do is tell Enigmail to ignore the sign/encrypt rules and all goes through as it should. It used to ask for a password. Somewhere in the last few sets of the daily dozen updates to Hardy, it stopped asking, and now does not even ask for a password when encrypted mail is sent to me using my key. I have to manually extract and decrypt the mail using command line utilities.

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Enigmail 2:0.95.0-0ubuntu4

When sending a signed or encrypted email Thunderbird hangs for several seconds then says that it cannot send the mail and asks, "Are your network settings correct?". Yes, they are! All I have to do is tell Enigmail to ignore the sign/encrypt rules and all goes through as it should. It used to ask for a password. Somewhere in the last few sets of the daily dozen updates to Hardy, it stopped asking, and now does not even ask for a password when encrypted mail is sent to me using my key. I have to manually extract and decrypt the mail using command line utilities.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Receive valid encrypted email.
2.
Actual Results:
Body pane remains blank.
Message above header says "Click key icon"
Popup says: Error: decryption failed, secret key not available.
It never asks for a passphrase. Manually decrypting the message is possible.

Expected Results:
I expected to receive a passphrase prompt and see the encrypted message.

[Matti-mversen (matti-mversen)]

Please ask the enigmail authors

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

One other issue that may help locate this problem. Other than gnupg-agent, what does enigmail use for passphrase caching? Is it possible that something in that is screwed up?

In "System / Prefs / Encryption / PGP Passphrases" I see two lines:
  Remember PGP Passphrases (bold)
    A supported PGP passphrase agent is not running.

What is the "supported PGP passphrase agent"?

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

This bug is not in Enigmail, it's in Seahorse, as below.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/183514

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

This bug is not in Enigmail, it's in Seahorse, as below.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/183514

[Alex Salt (holy.cheater)]

I have noticed the same problem. It also exists with debuild (while signing .dsc file)
I've installed pinentry-gtk2 package and it asks for password now, so enigmail is working.
I don't remember i've installed pinentry in gutsy, but enigmail was asking for a passphrase to decrypt a message. Also I don't remember I've deleted it while updating to hardy and it isn't shown in /var/log/dist-upgrade/*

Anyways, gnupg-agent only suggests installing pinentry, but doesn't require it.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can somebody tell me please if this happens also in newerenigmail versions?

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

I have not see this in a couple of years.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Thomas Hotz <email address hidden> wrote:

> Can somebody tell me please if this happens also in newerenigmail
> versions?
>
> ** Changed in: enigmail (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
> Enigmail not asking for password when signing or encrypting
>
> Status in GnuPG extension for Thunderbird:
> Won't Fix
> Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
> Invalid
> Status in “enigmail” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
>
> Thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
> Enigmail 2:0.95.0-0ubuntu4
>
> When sending a signed or encrypted email Thunderbird hangs for several
> seconds then says that it cannot send the mail and asks, "Are your
> network settings correct?". Yes, they are! All I have to do is tell
> Enigmail to ignore the sign/encrypt rules and all goes through as it
> should. It used to ask for a password. Somewhere in the last few
> sets of the daily dozen updates to Hardy, it stopped asking, and now
> does not even ask for a password when encrypted mail is sent to me
> using my key. I have to manually extract and decrypt the mail using
> command line utilities.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/enigmail/+bug/211002/+subscriptions
>

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Then marking the bug as fixed. Thank you!