Using the ImportExportTools addon, I exported the contents of my “All Mail” folder in .eml format to a local folder. Most of these emails open up just fine using Thunderbird. But when I try to open an Enigmail-encrypted .eml file, I just get blank space where the message body should be, with no apparent indication that Enigmail is even trying to decrypt it. Clicking “Enigmail → Decrypt/Verify” does nothing. Meanwhile, the same email opens and decrypts perfectly fine within Enigmail itself; just not the exported .eml file.
Is this explained somewhere I missed? Please keep in mind I’m only a lay user, not at all a programmer/coder/etc.
Thanks to anyone who chips in.
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Is this something complex to implement, as to enigmail is called also for eml messages?
We heavily use enigmail within our organizations, and a lot of bookkeeping (and other) emails are saved on our server as eml messages for further reference. As we saveguard the private keys of our colleagues, this would make even sense in case a colleague's gpg key is revoked/or has left the organization.
My workaround is now to right-click the empty message and say "edit as new message". The email with all its attachments shows up correctly in Thunderbird as draft.
If the eml message would show up correctly immediately that would be more practical, and would need less explanations to my colleagues.
kind regards,
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The way Thunderbird works is that it calls Enigmail for certain Content-Types and asks Enigmail to decrypt the respective message part. It is not possible for an Add-On to change something in Thunderbird to make it work differently than it does. If Thunderbird does perform the call in Enigmail, then there is nothing at all that a plugin like Enigmail can do to fix this.
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Long-time Enigmail user, first-time poster.
Using the ImportExportTools addon, I exported the contents of my “All Mail” folder in .eml format to a local folder. Most of these emails open up just fine using Thunderbird. But when I try to open an Enigmail-encrypted .eml file, I just get blank space where the message body should be, with no apparent indication that Enigmail is even trying to decrypt it. Clicking “Enigmail → Decrypt/Verify” does nothing. Meanwhile, the same email opens and decrypts perfectly fine within Enigmail itself; just not the exported .eml file.
Is this explained somewhere I missed? Please keep in mind I’m only a lay user, not at all a programmer/coder/etc.
Thanks to anyone who chips in.
Thunderbird does not call Enigmail for .eml messages, if the messages are PGP/MIME encrypted.
The only way to decrypt such messages is by copying them back to a folder using Menu > Message > Copy To > (some folder).
Hi Patrick,
thanks for the explanation.
Is this something complex to implement, as to enigmail is called also for eml messages?
We heavily use enigmail within our organizations, and a lot of bookkeeping (and other) emails are saved on our server as eml messages for further reference. As we saveguard the private keys of our colleagues, this would make even sense in case a colleague's gpg key is revoked/or has left the organization.
My workaround is now to right-click the empty message and say "edit as new message". The email with all its attachments shows up correctly in Thunderbird as draft.
If the eml message would show up correctly immediately that would be more practical, and would need less explanations to my colleagues.
kind regards,
The way Thunderbird works is that it calls Enigmail for certain Content-Types and asks Enigmail to decrypt the respective message part. It is not possible for an Add-On to change something in Thunderbird to make it work differently than it does. If Thunderbird does perform the call in Enigmail, then there is nothing at all that a plugin like Enigmail can do to fix this.
Hi Patrick,
thanks I thought so.
I will post this problem in the respective forum in Thunderbird, to see whether this can be fixed easily.
So that explains it. Thanks for the reply and the solution. Cheers.