[Enigmail] No longer decrypting

[John Clizbe]

Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> John Clizbe wrote:
>> Correct. So it could be argued that the default search server in the lower box
>> should be omitted from the upper list - GnuPG just searched it and didn't find
>> the key. Why offer to search it again?
> 
> I think that entire dialog is a bogus misfeature.  Unfortunately, I
> appear to be in the minority.
> 
> IMO, it should be very simple: ask the user for a list of keyservers to
> poll.  The distinction Enigmail draws between the lower and upper boxes
> makes no sense to me.  Patrick has tried to explain it to me a couple of
> times, but to no avail.  This may say more about my lack of
> understanding than anything else, however.

GnuPG does not iterate over a keyserver list like the PGP GUI. At most you may
specify one keyserver along with auto-key-retrieve to enable the automagic
retrieval of keys needed during signature verification. That is the lower box.

The upper box's list is used to populate a drop-down list that is offered to the
user to manually search (one at a time) if either a) no search server is
specified in the lower box, or 2) that server has already been tried and failed
to return a key.

> I have opened a bug about this in Enigmail:
> 
> https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17574
> 
Duplicate bug: http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17572


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