Questions tagged [enigmail]
Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It enables you to write and receive email messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard.
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How do I get thunderbird to use my gpg keyring?
Since the latest "improve"ments to Thunderbird, I now have two different gpg keyrings instead of just one. How can I get Thunderbird to use the gpg keyring in ~/.gnupg, instead of its own ...
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Thunderbird's new OpenPGP integration fails to recognise private keys that had the sign subkey removed
I have just upgraded from Thunderbird 68 with Enigmail to Thunderbird 78, with its native OpenPGP features. However, the migration from Enigmail didn't succeed and it fails to associate the keys in my ...
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How to fix GnuPG after importing a poisoned key (without just deleting it)
My GnuPG client automatically refreshed the keys in its keyring from a keyserver, and it imported a poisoned key. How can I fix my keyring without merely deleting the poisoned public key?
Last month a ...
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Can't upload public PGP/GPG key to OpenSKS server
So I have an Intranet that won't be connected to the Internet when in use, and one of the functionalities I need is the ability to send and receive encrypted emails.
I chose to use an OpenSKS server ...
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I deleted the new key generated upon installation on a new laptop, but now Enigmail can't import the old key
I installed Enigmail on a new laptop, and made the mistake of letting it generate a key pair for me. I realised my mistake, and deleted the new key. But now when I try to import the key from my old ...
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Is there a way to let Enigmail automatically use the passphrase to unlock my key that's stored in keypass?
I use Enigmail in Thunderbird to send encrypted messages and sign messages with my own key. From an user-experience standpoint I would like to spend less time entering my passphrase to unlock the key.
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How do I import a public key that my friend stored in keybase.io into Thunderbird?
I want to encrypt my emails. Fortunately, my friend uploaded his public key to keybase.io.
I installed Thunderbird and Enigmail and uploaded my own public key. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be as ...
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Thunderbird cannot decrypt message even though it has the private key
I have sent an encrypted email and a CC to myself, also encrypted, using Thunderbird as email client and the hotmail SMTP server for delivery.
I have then received the email message and at first ...
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Restore Enigmail Private Keys from file system on Ubuntu
I want to restore my private OpenPGP keys from a deja-dup backup of the file-system the old Ubuntu installation was running on.
The backup is already extracted and as I understood from here my keys ...
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How and where does Windows save the password for pgp keys?
When I use Eingmail in Thunderbird on Windows I can choose to save the pgp key password. Where is this password stored? Is it safely stored? How does that work compared to a Ubuntu System?
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gpg2 migration from ubuntu to fedora leads to missing secret key
I'm using gnupg with thunderbird via enigmail. Everything is up and running fine on my notebook with ubuntu (kubuntu). Now I tried transfering my keys and settings to my new system running fedora. ...
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Enigmail + GnuPG + Thunderbird hidden key error
A friend of mine recently updated his OpenPGP keys. I cannot open the encrypted email received from that friend in my Thunderbird. I use Enigmail, and I get the following error:
Enigmail Security ...
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How can I send email with the subject as well as the body encrypted
I use encrypted email to converse with some people. Unfortunately, the encryption doesn't apply to the message subject.
Now, on one hand, I do want to use meaningful subjects/titles, but on the other ...
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Thunderbird Enigmail does not recognize key - "error - no matching/private key found"
A few month ago I set up enigmail for one of my computers. I imported a fried's key and was successful in decrypting his messages.
I switched computers now and tried to replicate all the steps I did ...
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How to analyze and fix a broken private PGP key?
I have 2 sets of keys on my Windows 7 system with GPG4Win tools installed (including Kleopatra key management) and 2 Enigmail-based email clients (Thunderbird + Seamonkey) and Claws, which uses an own ...
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GPG4Win + Enigmail = The key ID <email address> configured for the current identity does not yield a usable OpenPGP key. How to resolve?
I am setting up a Windows computer with PGP - GPG4Win, Thunderbird, Enigmail. Everything works successfully, until I am trying to encrypt a message. This error message appears:
The key ID configured ...
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What do I need to do in order to use Enigmail on more than one PC?
I've already imported my keys from pc1 to pc2, but on pc2 I always get this error message:
Error - no matching private/secret key found to decrypt message;
click on 'Details' button for more ...
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Enigmail constantly prompting for password
My Enigmail is constantly prompting for password when clicking on emails that have already been decrypted a second ago, switching between encrypted emails that have been decrypted.
In the Enigmail ...
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Enigmail cannot communicate with gpg-agent
Update
As of Ubuntu 16.04, the plug-in works as expected and there's no need to downgrade as suggested in the accepted answer. The question was applicable to Ubuntu 15.04 and, maybe, 15.10.
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Is it possible to encrypt an email for two keys but the same email?
I started using Enigmail with Thunderbird to encrypt and sign my mails. It works fine with my brother and some other people.
Yesterday I got a reply from someone with whom I did communicate via ...
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Enigmial does not put the secret key into the secret keyring
I've been using Enigmail 1.8.2 on Thunderbird 38.5.0 from the Fedora 23 repository. I generated a key pair by using Enigmail and I can send encrypted and signed emails by using Thunderbird (or even by ...
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"Email address or key ID cannot be matched to a valid, not expired OpenPGP key" in Enigmail after moving to a new computer/account
When I write a new email in Thunderbird while signing the mail using Enigmail, I get an error message:
Enigmail Alert
Encrypt draft messages on saving
The email address or key ID '[email protected]' ...
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Why does using Enigmail with Icedove on Debian fail if I don't start gpg-agent manually?
I'm using Icedove on a Debian Sid installation, and now I try to use Enigmail with it. But I encounter some issues:
I had to create my keys with gpg2 instead of Enigmail, because it didn't want to ...
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How do I automatically sign HTML emails with Enigmail and Thunderbird?
I can't sign HTML messages with Enigmail. Even though "Sign messages" is checked as the default, when I look at the source of the draft or sent messages, there is no signature.
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How do I prevent Enigmail from encrypting my email, even when encryption is turned off?
Enigmail add-on to Thunderbird is encrypting all emails, even when encryption is turned off.
I save the email as a draft, and when I view it in Drafts folder (or if it was sent), then it shows as ...
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Send email via Thunderbird (Enigmail) as HTML
I'm having a problem that I want to use Thunderbird in combination with the Enigmail addodn to send and recieve emails that are enrypted by PGP. I can already view emails that are sent to me as HTML, ...
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Enigmail: Adding the User ID failed
I wanted to add a User ID to my private GPG key such that I can use it for two email addresses. I went to Enigmail -> Key Management, selected my key and chose Manage User IDs. After entering the new ...
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Can Enigmail automatically not encrypt email for multiple recipients?
I have Enigmail/Thunderbird set up to automatically encrypt email when I send it to a particular recipient. I have it choosing my keys "By Per-Recipient Rules" and "By Email Addresses according to the ...
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Using Enigmail encryption on mutiple devices
So I'm relatively new to email encryption and thought I would start out using thunderbird + enigmail to get me started. I've managed to set it up and work with it properly but I'm not sure what to do ...
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GnuPG in Thunderbird w/ Enigmail on dual OS machine
I am running a computer with two OS, namely Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows. I'd like to write encypted Mails from both OS, which runs well (i.e., every program needed is installed).
The only problem I have ...
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Reading HTML mail with PGP/Mime encryption in Thunderbird with Enigmail
Yesterday I asked how to configure Thunderbird with Enigmail to use PGP/Mime encryption for signing emails. This works, but I noticed one problem. I don't know if this is common to Thunderbird, or ...
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Use PGP/Mime with Thunderbird and Enigmail
I would like to sign all my mail with my PGP key, and no matter if the recipient uses PGP or not, it should not confuse them. Last week I read a discussion that inline PGP is not good pratice, and I ...
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Enigmail stopped working: KEYEXPIRED/SIGEXPIRED
Since a recent update I cant send encrypted mail with thunderbird and the enigmail plugin anymore. Whenever I try to send the mail, and enter the passphrase for my key, I get the following error ...
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Trying to verify file signature in GPG4win: Not enough information to check signature validity
I've downloaded enigmail for Thunderbird and I'm trying to verify the PGP signature with GPG4win.
I imported the public certificate, certified it with my own, downloaded the Open PGP signature, and ...
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PGP: encrypt all parts as one or each separate
When I receive emails in my K9-Mail on Android with APG installed some mails I can press "decrypt" right away inside the email, to read it, and some others, I only get the encrypted message as an ...
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Is it possible to setup Enigmail for Thunderbird, so that signatures are sent as attachments?
In a PGP sign only email, I find that when I use Enigmail, the signature is part of the body of the email and is pretty painful to read on say a browser. I have seen others send signed email where the ...
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Unable to sign message with Enigmail - No passphrase prompt
I have Thunderbird 24.4.0 and Enigmail 1.5.2 installed.
My OS is Kubuntu 13.10 x64.
gpg-agent version 2.0.20-1ubuntu3
gnupg version 1.4.14-1ubuntu2.1
pinentry-qt4 version 0.8.1-1ubuntu2
kgpg version ...
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Email encryption and passphrase caching using thunderbird, enigmail, linux arch and kde
I fiddled a bit around to get this passphrase caching working. So post my way to go here, to be able to look up later.
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Enigmail: don't decrypt automatically
I am using Icedove 17.0.10 (Thunderbird) with Enigmail 1.5.1.
It used to be, that when the option Automatically decrypt messages was disabled, any encrypted email was displayed in the encrypted form. ...
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gpg-agent fails with "command get_passphrase failed: End of file" on pinentry
I'm trying to use Enigmail with Thunderbird on Linux. GPG itself is set up, keys imported and I already can use the key management functions (including signing of keys) from kgpg.
But Mail encryption ...
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force gpg-agent to forget password
I am using gpg-agent 2.0.17 with gpg 1.4.11 on ubuntu 12.04 and the Enigmail Addon for Thunderbird. When opening an encrypted email, Enigmail invokes gpg-agent with the associated pinentry program and ...
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Enigmail 1.5 / Thunderbird 17 line wrap signing order
I experience serious trouble with line-wraps in thunderbird when using enigmail.
It seems that there is something wrong with the order of the follwing steps:
I write a text (without caring about ...
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Fetch GPG public keys for thunderbird address book contacts
I just started using GPG in Thunderbird 17 (via enigmail). Now I want to fill my private key database with all the keys of other people that use mail encryption as well. One way, other than asking ...
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Sign PGP key to which I added identity once again (i.e. also sign new identities)
I am using the Key Management dialog of Enigmail (in Thunderbird) to manage my keys, as it's more convenient than command line, but also more stable than the GnuPG alternative (Kleopatra).
So now I ...
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Public/Private key locations with Enigmail and Thunderbird on Windows
Sorry if this is a simple answered question, I just cannot find what I'm looking for.
I'd like to find the location of my public/private key combinations on my Windows machine that I made through ...
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How can I start the integrated pgp-agent that comes shipped with the new KDE on openSUSE 12.1?
How can I start the integrated pgp-agent in OpenSUSE 12.1?
Running OpenSUSE 12.1 with the following software installed all via YAST:
tbird
enigmail
pinentry
gnupg
as root (as the superuser). Can ...
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Multiple Enigmail User IDs for multiple accounts in Thunderbird?
I have multiple email accounts set up in Thunderbird 3.1.10 in Mac OS X 10.6.7, and have just installed latest GnuPG and Enigmail.
The Enigmail setup wizard helped me set up a Key for signing emails, ...
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No HTML email after installing Enigmail in Thunderbird 3.1.10
I am running Thunderbird 3.1.10 on Mac OS X 10.6.7, and have just installed GnuPG and Enigmail extensions per the official website's instructions.
Unfortunately, all the emails I receive now are all ...
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HTML or rich e-mails do not work with Enigmal in Thunderbird
I would like to be able to receive HTML/rich e-mails, but since I installed Enigmail for Thunderbird, this has not been possible. All e-mails are shown as plain text or not shown at all. This has some ...
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how to import gmail contacts to enigmail?
$ rpm -qa | grep -i "^thunderbird"
thunderbird-enigmail-1.1.2-1.fc14.i686
thunderbird-3.1.7-2.fc14.i686
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
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