Saved passphrase not accessible

[Allen Gunn]

Hello,

When entering the GPG passphrase to the Enigmail passphrase prompt in Thunderbird, I accidentally clicked and selected "Save in password manager" before clicking OK.

Now I'm not prompted for the passphrase any more, but also unable to decrypt emails, I get the message "Possibly PGP/MIME encrypted or signed message; use 'Decrypt/Verify' function to verify", but I'm not able to do anything further. I have attached the screenshot of the error message.

I'm running Linux Mint 19.0 with Cinnamon desktop and Thunderbird 60.6.1 with Enigmail 2.0.10.

Couple of questions:

• Where is the passphrase now stored, is it in Enigmail settings or the system password manager?

• Is it possible to "forget" that stored passphrase through any Enigmail (or other) mechanism?

• Would changing the passphrase on the key itself have the desired affect?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.
gunner

[Olav Seyfarth]

Hi Alan,

that sounds like a Seahorse dialog, please run "Passwords and Encryption" (or "seahorse") from the Start menu and you'll find your saved enties there - you may delete them there etc. It's a functionality of your Desktop environment, a Gnome component used by Cinnamon in that case.

Olav