[Mageia-discuss] Thunderbird quoting problem

[Anne Wilson]

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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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