#769 Force-enable p≡p mode not (always) possible

[Hernani Marques]

In at least two situations it appears that the p≡p mode cannot be force-enabled for classic Enigmail users: the option appears gray in Preferences -> Privacy.

See also user report from Twitter: https://twitter.com/dc7ia/status/978410369264873472

Could be reproduced for a Debian system which updated to Enigmail 2.0 with existing keys and Enigmail settings.

[Hernani Marques]

The p≡p mode is also not enforced (e.g., even no pepmda/ folder is unpacked) if in the configuration editor the junior mode is manually set to 2. Also a restart doesn't help.

[Hernani Marques]

This might be a lang env issue: https://twitter.com/dc7ia/status/978413978161475586

[Patrick Brunschwig]

If you can reproduce it, please attach a debug log file (from Enigmail)

[Patrick Brunschwig]

Am 27. März 2018 01:22:45 MESZ schrieb Hernani Marques vecirex@users.sourceforge.net:

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** [bugs:#769] Force p≡p mode not (always) possible**

Status: open
Created: Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:22 PM UTC by Hernani Marques
Last Updated: Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:22 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

In at least two situations it appears that the p≡p mode cannot be
force-enabled for classic Enigmail users: the option appears gray in
Preferences -> Privacy.

See also user report from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/dc7ia/status/978410369264873472

Could be reproduced for a Debian system which updated to Enigmail 2.0
with existing keys and Enigmail settings.

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I believe that this is a bug in pepmda. Force-enable is only possible if pepmda can be downloaded AND executed without error. And I think that the latter failed with the wrong locale.

[Patrick Brunschwig]

Another question: did Debian update to Enigmail 2.0 or was that via downloading Enigmail from addons.mozilla.org (automatically in Thunderbird)?

I'm asking because the Debian package will not download pEp. See https://bugs.debian.org/891882

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

I've updated enigmail in debian experimental to 2.0 (plus several of the bugfixes you've already committed on the 2.0 branch, thanks!). I haven't uploaded 2.0 to debian unstable yet because of https://bugs.debian.org/787774 which i still have not resolved :(

[Patrick Brunschwig]

I believe that we can close this. AFAICT, this only happens on systems that don't support pEp for whatever reason.