[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#870073: enigmail: Does not encrypt and gives alerts after upgrade to Thunderbird 52

Paul van der Vlis paul at vandervlis.nl
Sat Jul 29 13:20:33 UTC 2017


Package: enigmail
Version: 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After the security upgrade to Thunderbird version 52.2.1 Enigmail did not work
anymore. I've tried now Enigmail version 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1 but it has the same
problem.  Because I could not install this version of Enigmail using apt, I've
downloaded it from here:
http://security.debian.org/debian-
security/pool/updates/main/e/enigmail/enigmail_1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1_all.deb
And installed it with "dpkg -i".

When I read an encrypted message in Thunderbird, I get this warning:
------
Enigmail Alert:
GnuPG reported an error in the communication with gpg-agent (a component of
GnuPG).
This is a system setup or configuration error that prevents Enigmail from
working properly and cannot be fixed automatically.
We strongly recommend that you consult our support web site at
https://enigmail.net/faq.
------
After this, the message is decrypted.

But when I sent a message to somebody with a PGP key in my keyring, the message
is normally encrypted. But not now, and I do not get a warning about that.

With Thunderbird 45 I did not have these problems.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.9
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.utf8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages enigmail depends on:
ii  gnupg                  1.4.18-7+deb8u3
ii  gnupg-agent            2.0.26-6+deb8u1
ii  gnupg2                 2.0.26-6+deb8u1
ii  icedove                1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1
ii  thunderbird [icedove]  1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1

Versions of packages enigmail recommends:
ii  pinentry-gtk2 [pinentry-x11]  0.8.3-2

enigmail suggests no packages.



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