[Mageia-discuss] Thunderbird quoting problem

Sat Jun 23 09:43:59 CEST 2012

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+On 22/06/12 01:19, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
+> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:54:26 +0200 Florian Hubold
+> <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> 
+>> Am 21.06.2012 13:11, schrieb Anne Wilson:
+>>> Using TBird 10.0.5, I find that using the Reply button results
+>>> in a single line containing the date and name of the
+>>> contributor being quoted - nothing else. Sometimes, that is.
+>>> 
+>>> Further investigation suggests that it may be related to
+>>> replying to encrypted mail. Any ideas?
+>>> 
+>>> Anne
+>>> 
+>> 
+>> Did you maybe by accident mark something in the message which you
+>> want to reply to? Thunderbird only quotes the selected parts of
+>> the mail, in that case.
+>> 
+>> But what i see is that your PGP signature gets minimized to the
+>>> symbol you can see below your quotation in this reply ...
+>> 
+>> And furthermore but maybe unrelated, thunderbird /enigmail 
+>> doesn't seem to be able to retrieve your public key ...
+>> 
+>> 
+> I haven't used Thunderbird, and I haven't had occasion to notice
+> this issue, but if I understand it correctly, it makes a lot of
+> sense.  The alternative to-be-expected result means that text which
+> was originally encrypted becomes unencrypted when quoted, and
+> remains unencrypted thereafter, perhaps repeated through a long
+> thread.  That wasn't what the originator wanted.  Whether it does
+> any harm depends on the content.  For those who use encryption for
+> casual correspondence, it doesn't.  Spies or Government departments
+> would need to keep the privacy.
+> 
+> Doug.
+> 
+No.  The behaviour previously encountered is that my key decrypts the
+message, which displays decrypted when quoted, and is re-encrypted
+when I reply to my colleague.  This may be a TBird 13 bug.  I have
+been replying to him without problems in TBird under Cauldron for
+several weeks before I saw this.  When I wrote the bug report I
+assumed it was a difference between M2 and Cauldron, but now I'm
+seeing the same problem here (netbook running Cauldron).
+
+Anne
+
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