key expired error message on save draft message
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: john, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0
Steps to reproduce:
For many months, I puzzled over an error that Thunderbird was giving me any time I attempted to save a draft message. The warning was basically "key expired" and my email address. It was only recently when I twigged to the fact that this message might be referring to my GPG personal key, and not some other mysterious key relating to the IMAP server that I was saving it. One doesn't immediately think encrpytion when a draft message is being saved on the IMAP server, as opposed to actually being sent.
Actual results:
Couldn't save draft messages for many months! Thought it was a problem with Outlook IMAP support, but it wasn't -- it was an expired GPG personal key. I reported it to our server people but of course they couldn't understand the problem.
Expected results:
The error message is far too brief. It should say that the message could not be encypted before saving, becuase the local GPG/Enigmail encryption key has expired. It should say that the key can be replaced or renewed by following some particular process -- eg a link to a help page.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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We are now on version 91, and version 78 is nearly unsupported.
Please let us know how this does with version 91.
Version 78.14.0 was only just released on 7 Sept 2021...? Also, it seems that there are no newer packages for Thunderbird provided on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Would be great if some updated packages could be provided -- I'll raise it via Ubuntu Launchpad.
I think the bug is basically a text problem, in any case. The error message just needs to be a bit clearer, instead of saying "key expired", it should say "GPG encryption key expired", or something like that.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Updated•4 years ago
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A related bug on reporting of errors coming from GPG keys: #1835800
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835800
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Comment 4•2 years ago
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In the meantime we have implement a notice to inform about the expired key.
We want to further improve feedback regarding the inability to save encrypted drafts in bug 1684676.
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