345784 - TB thinks I'm trying to encrypt, when I'm not

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Bob Lord]

Starting with today's build, I've run into a serious problem where TB thinks I have the "require encryption" option selected, but I do not.  As a result, I cannot send email to some people.

This only seems to happen on replies, not new emails that I initiate.  

The error is:
Sending of message failed.
You specified encryption for this message, but the application failed to find an encryption certificate for $Recipient.

I may need to revert to an earlier build until this is resolved.

Comment 1

[Bob Lord]

Update: when I change the recipient list to include just people for whom I have a local certificate copy, it sends the email signed and encrypted, even when I turned that feature off in the Mail Compose window. 

Comment 2

[Bob Lord]

Might this be related to the fact that I recently turned on FIPS mode?

Comment 3

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Bob: it is possible but seems unlikely.  Does this bug go away
if you turn off FIPS mode?

Comment 4

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

I am able to reproduce.

It is unrelated to FIPS, I have it turned off.

Comment 5

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

I identified the cause of this issue to be bug 347554.

Comment 6

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Changing dependency to real bug.

Comment 7

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

I confirm the fix for bug 282669 has fixed this bug as well.