[Mageia-discuss] Thunderbird quoting problem

Sat Jun 23 10:10:15 CEST 2012

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+On 23/06/12 08:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> 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).
+> 
+Can't be the version of TBird, of course, as Tosh is running 10.0.5
+and netbook is 13.  Sorry - caffeine starvation.
+Anne
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