p≡p: problems (or observations) with multiple mail-accounts
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Hi,
2 weeks ago I found p≡p (pretty easy privacy), installed it and liked it. Later I convinced a friend to install it too on his machine. Yesterday we had some discussions about possibilites and problems of this addon, so we made a test. Here are my observations:
Environment:
Ubuntu 18.04 (up to date), Thunderbird plus Enigmail with p≡p
My friend has 4 mail-accounts on his machine (2 for him, 2 of his wife). Lets name them:
* XX@gmx.net
* YY@web.de
* ZZ@t-online.de
* AA@gmx.de
We made our inital tests with the address XX@gmx.net, so I could send him encrypted mails to his address and also back from this address to me.
Now we made a test using the mail-account YY@web.de to my mail-account. The mail arrived on my side, was decrypted so I could read the text. By importing the key for this account Thunderbird offered me the key of the account ZZ@t-online.de.
This mail-account was not used for sending/encrypting this mail. So why this?
Can someone please explain this. Thanks.
AugustQ
another observation:
the mail I received was sent encrypted. By presenting it it is is decrypted, aka I can read the contents. By klicking on the yellow triangle I recive a message-box saying that this mail cannot be encrypted because the key is missing. See the attached picture (text is in german).
Looks like it is confused this enigmail-add-on (plus pep).