Enigmail is prompting for GPG password constantly

[Mikko Rantalainen]

Steps to reproduce (I'm guessing here)

1. Receive an encrypted message

Expected result:

My password is prompted if I try to open the message.

Actual result:

My password is prompted no matter which email message I'm currently viewing. If I cancel the prompt, I get re-prompted within 1-120 seconds. As a result, I have currently disabled the enigmail add-on for the account I'm normally using because the modal password prompt is getting in the way. As far as I know, the password prompt is displayed by my GPG agent and the calling software should take the hint to not re-request the password immediately again if I hit cancel.

Extra information:

I'm guessing that the prompting is caused by background indexing done by Thunderbird. This is problematic for two reasons:

1. I cannot know which message is being decrypted so I cannot delete it, or prevent indexing it (if at all possible)

2. If thunderbird can index it, TB will keep unencrypted index data for the message -- which is highly unwanted because the message was encrypted in the first place.

I'm not sure if updating to 1.5.1 would help (http://www.enigmail.net/download/changelog.php#enig1.5.1).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: enigmail 2:1.4.6-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-48.50-lowlatency 3.2.46
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-48-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 1 10:36:38 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: enigmail
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

does this ever occur in trusty or later?

It works fine for me. You can have enigmail or gpg-agent remember your password and manage your key.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Closing as unverified.