[Enigmail] Setting which Hash Algorithm

[Charly Avital]

Robert J. Hansen wrote the following on 6/23/08 9:48 PM:
[...]

> 
> I'm actually going to defend this one, albeit weakly.

I appreciate it.

> If you override
> .mimeHashAlgorithm, then Enigmail is still ignorant of your gpg.conf
> file -- it just passes an override.
> 
>> [PGP/MIME is e]xplained below.
>>
>> [good stuff snipped]

Really good stuff. I have copied and filed it.

> 
> As I understand it, part of Charly's problem stems from the fact that by
> setting his .mimeHashAlgorithm the digest-algo choice was being applied
> even to non-PGP/MIME emails.

It is indeed applied to non-PGP/MIME emails, as I have tested it.

> 
> If so, should this be filed as a bug?

I'll leave that to the experts in this forum.

> 
> Also, given that I can't imagine a use case for .mimeHashAlgorithm,
> Patrick's hack seeming to be a much better solution, should we talk
> about removing it altogether?


In a previous release of Enigmail, I can' remember which, there was an
option (GUI) in OpenPGP Preferences to set manually the hash algorithm.
This option came together or under the tab of PGP/MIME. I must have set
it, at that time, to SHA256, and it is possible that it "stuck" along
further releases of Enigmail.

Thanks,
Charly