426601 - Enigmail not asking for password when signing or encrypting

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Kenneth Loafman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008031317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

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.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Receive valid encrypted email.
2.
Actual Results:  
Body pane remains blank.
Message above header says "Click key icon"
Popup says: Error: decryption failed, secret key not available.
It never asks for a passphrase.  Manually decrypting the message is possible.

Expected Results:  
I expected to receive a passphrase prompt and see the encrypted message.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please ask the enigmail authors

Comment 2

[Kenneth Loafman]

This bug is not in Enigmail, it's in Seahorse, as below.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seahorse/+bug/183514