[Enigmail] Enigmail bug or failure in my system?

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Charly Avital wrote:
> Patrick Brunschwig wrote the following on 5/7/08 2:28 AM:
>> Charly Avital wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am experiencing the following problem, when trying to process (verify)
>>> signed messages posted by certain forum members.
>>> This same problem existed when I was running Enigmail 0.95.6, and now
>>> when I am running Enigmail version 0.96a (20080501).
>>> I am running Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421) Macintosh, on a
>>> Macbook (Intel Processor), with gpg 1.4.9 or gpg2 2.0.9, see details below.
>>> *Nothing* happens, the signed message is not processed, there is no
>>> output of any kind.
>>> I have tried two possible situations:
>>> - when 'Automatically Decrypt/Verify Messages' is enabled.
>>> - when the above option is not enabled, and I click the 'Decrypt' icon.
>>> These messages have in common the following components:
>>> - their raw source displays: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>> Content-transfer-encoding: base64
>>> - instead of the "usual" signed message with PGP headers and footers,
>>> the raw source displays a block of rows that contain, each, 76 (seventy
>>> six) characters. I would have expected 64 characters, as in base64 format.
>> Interesting, I have never seen that. Could you send me such a message?
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Thank you for the feedback.
> 
> Those messages can be found in Enigmail's list postings. I am afraid
> that if I just "fwd" them to you, you will not get the original content.
> Here is one example (there are few others); please try to verify it,
> and/or to view its raw source. If you do not experience the same problem
> as I do, or if you experience different problems, that may be a start to
> "assign" the cause/origin of the problem.
> 
> Sender                    Subject                                 Date
> olav at mozilla-enigmail.org Re: [Enigmail] test encryption features 5/6/08

That's quite strange. I'm using the same v0.96a build as you do, and my
Thunderbird verifies Olav's message perfectly fine. The only difference
is that I'm using Linux, and you're using Mac OS X.

What extensions did you install apart from Enigmail?

- -Patrick

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