Thunderbird hangs at: Status: Creating mail message...
OpenPGP addon for Mozilla Thunderbird
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Menu
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You can then cancel - but the send button is no longer active
You can then save it as a draft
Select Edit
Then press send again.
Most of the time, it sends.
if not
wash, rinse, repeat ~ until it does
running Enigmail 2.0a1pre
Thunderbird 52.5.0
this problem has been around quite some time
it's getting downright annoying.
Fix or workaround appreciated
TIA
The folks at this link see the same issue - obviously Enigmail...
[https://askubuntu.com/questions/918117/thunderbird-stuck-with-status-creating-mail-message]
First of all, how old is your 2.0a1pre version and which version of GnuPG do you use?
In general, there are quite a number of possible reasons for this.
- Did you ever try the workaround suggested in Answer 5 (from askubuntu)?
- When it happens, do you see an exception in the Thunderbird Error console?
Last edit: Patrick Brunschwig 2017-12-30
First of all, how old is your 2.0a1pre version and which version of GnuPG do you use?
On the Win7 machine:
enigmail-nightly-2.0a1pre-all.xpi downloaded on 2016-09-24
have no idea how old that would be.
installed to solve (it did) an issue Enigmail had with keys in Thunderbird
gnupg-w32-2.1.15_20160818
possibly "Many other bug fixes" in later versions fixed this issue?
nothing otherwise specifically noted in the change log.
ability to send a draft seems to indicate it's not a GnuPG issue?
nor is the issue consistently repeatable.
In general, there are quite a number of possible reasons for this.
- Did you ever try the workaround suggested in Answer 5 (from askubuntu)?
No. I use Win7 and Win10. I was pointing out that Ubuntu users had the same issue.
Also, that seems to be a work around for a possible gpg problem. Nor am discounting TB as the source of the issue as based on my Enigmail and GnuPG installation, the issue may correlate with TB updates - both for Win and Ubuntu. For me, the issue began this year - just not sure when.
have no clue how to get to such. This an addon?
Find no 'Error console' in TB Troubleshooting
a final observation fwiw ~
We use PasswordSafe to store passwords. There may be a correlation with the safe automatically closing after a specified time-out. The private key is then no longer in memory - has to be re-accessed.
The send hang seems to appear more often after the timeout expires (the password is no longer available to Enigmail) - however, the draft-send workaround still works.
Your Enigmail version is very old, and the problem you described has most likely been fixed since then. I definitely recommend that you install a newer version of Enigmail, and I'd stronly suggest that you use version 1.9.9 (i.e. an official release, and not a snapshot of the current development).
I would also highly recommend to use a newer version of GnuPG; version 2.1.x were beta versions that have known issues. I'd go for gpg4win.org.
The Error Console can be found in menu Tools > Developer Tools > Error Console.
Now running Enigmail version 1.9.9 (20171210-1358)
and
gnupg-w32-2.2.4_20171220
Four rows in error console
all related to BirdieSync.
I will post if this resolves the issues I am having.
Appreciate the assistance.
Can confirm the issue is resolved.