Comment 8 for bug 211002

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Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman) wrote : Re: [Bug 211002] Re: Enigmail not asking for password when signing or encrypting

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.
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