270459 - Confusing encryption message when sending email

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Davor Cubranic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When I send email, the following message box comes up: "An encrypted email
connection has been detected. Please see help for more information on how to
transmit encrypted email." Aside from the fact that there is no information in
help on how to transmit encrypted email, I do not understand why this dialog
comes up in the first place. In the compose window's "Security" settings, I have
selected "Do not encrypt this message" because I haven't yet set up GPG on my
computer. In the server settings, I selected "use secure connection (TLS)", but
not "use secure authentication". Digital signing and encryption are both
disabled in the "security" settings. Outgoing server settings are to use "TLS,
if available".

I'm assuming the message comes up because I'm sending my email out over TLS. But
that's just a secure connection so people cannot snoop my account password or
the contents of the messages. What does it have to do with whether I
sign/encrypt my emails? Aren't an "encrypted email connection" and "transmitting
encrypting email" features orthogonal to each other?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Davor Cubranic]

I should add build identification: Thunderbird verion 0.9 (20041103)

Comment 2

[Davor Cubranic]

After further investigation, I don't think this message was generated by
Thunderbird. Closing as invalid.