thunderbird changes character encoding of message when signing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
enigmail (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
When composing a message, everything is fine. I write some text like this one:
---
Este mensaje te llega bien? o te llega con los tíldes mal?
árbol, verán.... mádre que lo parió... :)
---
Then when i hit send, it signs the message and sets up the ASCII markings ---- BEGIN OF PGP SIGNED MESSAJE ----- and so... and then the body of the message transforms to this one.
----
Este mensaje te llega bien? o te llega con los t■ldes mal?
£rbol, ver£n.... m£dre que lo pari...)
----
Is this a bug? When i send this message it appears fine in the Sent folder... and i tried to send messages for myself and in thunderbird it looks allright too. But i send to my wife that she use Evolution mail and it shows with the strange characters. The same characters that Thunderbird shows when it is signing the message.
Any ideas?
Best Regards,
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: thunderbird 17.0.2+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
AddonCompatChec
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
BuildID: 20130106044124
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfeb00000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC892'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0892,
Controls : 44
Simple ctrls : 21
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x991'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x991 at usb-0000:00:13.2-2, high speed'
Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
Components : 'USB046d:0991'
Controls : 2
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 8
Mono: Capture 6 [75%] [27.00dB] [off]
Card2.Amixer.info:
Card hw:2 'Generic'/'HD-Audio Generic at 0xfea40000 irq 89'
Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,
Controls : 6
Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: Unavailable
Date: Thu Jan 24 12:53:53 2013
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120228)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.33 metric 2
MarkForUpload: True
Plugins:
Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.2 (1.2-2ubuntu1.3)) - /usr/lib/
PrefSources:
prefs.js
[Profile]
[Profile]
[Profile]
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RelatedPackageV
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
WifiSyslog:
Jan 24 12:40:33 bulldozer NetworkManager[
Jan 24 12:40:34 bulldozer wpa_supplicant[
Jan 24 12:40:34 bulldozer NetworkManager[
Jan 24 12:40:36 bulldozer wpa_supplicant[
Jan 24 12:40:37 bulldozer wpa_supplicant[
dmi.bios.date: 12/02/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0901
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: M5A99X EVO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: To be filled by O.E.M.
affects: | thunderbird (Ubuntu) → enigmail (Ubuntu) |
I can confirm the bug is in Enigmail, because sending the same message without signing, the character encoding is the correct one. Also i confirmed that Evolution is not mis-reading the mail. I sent a mail from k-9 mail client from my android ICS tablet signed with the same private key and Evolution reads the message fine.
In Evolution, btw, the message footer says "Key is not Valid" and my wife kave my public key in seahorse, that confirms that Enigmail is messing up with the keys. The same signed message sent from k-9 says "Key Valid" in the message footer.
Isn't this a security issue? i'll mark like one.
Best regards.