I've recently started to use encryption in my emails (my work account is a GSuite Gmail account), and wanted a seamless experience no matter what device I was using. I've installed Enigmail in Thunderbird, and it works perfectly for encrypting and signing.
Next, I installed K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain on my Android phone, and that's working fine too ... mail that I encrypt and send using TB can be read fine on K-9 Mail, and vice-versa. Encrypted mail sent to me decrypts quite nicely on both mail platorms, too.
So, onto the Gmail web interface. I've started using Mailvelope, which seems to work fine ... except when "something" screwy happens. If someone replies to an encrypted email using Mailvelope, the Mailvelope plugin seems to decrypt it quite happily, as does K-9 Mail on my phone. But Enigmail ... does nothing. The un-decrypted email just sits there. Is there something I'm missing? I know the message is "there" as I can read it in K-9 Mail, and can even use the Gmail Android app to copy the PGP message into Open Keychain and the message decrypts fine. What's not happening in Enigmail? Any hints would be gratefully received :)
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Hi Patrick—done :) Thanks for looking into this for me ... as I said in my original post, it does work most of the time, but it seems to fail when replying to encrypted emails in Gmail.
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Just for anyone else who stumbles across this thread, after emails between Patrick and myself we've discovered that Mailvelope, while it does encrypt successfully, sends the emails as HTML with inline PGP sections which does cause some issues with Enigmail. A different plugin for Chrome and Firefox which works quite nicely with Gmail is FlowCrypt, whichalso has an Android app. So I'm able to use encrypted mail with Thunderbird, Gmail web and Android :)
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Not “some issues”, but the fact that Patrick stubornly made Enigmail incompatible with all the other software that use the Inline PGP standard: https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/support/thread/c4f5a4eaad/
By deprecating it with no warning and obligating everyone to change their tools and by not even letting old emails readable, this move made PGP only a nerd whim.
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I've recently started to use encryption in my emails (my work account is a GSuite Gmail account), and wanted a seamless experience no matter what device I was using. I've installed Enigmail in Thunderbird, and it works perfectly for encrypting and signing.
Next, I installed K-9 Mail and OpenKeychain on my Android phone, and that's working fine too ... mail that I encrypt and send using TB can be read fine on K-9 Mail, and vice-versa. Encrypted mail sent to me decrypts quite nicely on both mail platorms, too.
So, onto the Gmail web interface. I've started using Mailvelope, which seems to work fine ... except when "something" screwy happens. If someone replies to an encrypted email using Mailvelope, the Mailvelope plugin seems to decrypt it quite happily, as does K-9 Mail on my phone. But Enigmail ... does nothing. The un-decrypted email just sits there. Is there something I'm missing? I know the message is "there" as I can read it in K-9 Mail, and can even use the Gmail Android app to copy the PGP message into Open Keychain and the message decrypts fine. What's not happening in Enigmail? Any hints would be gratefully received :)
AFAIK, Enigmail and Mailvelope are compatible to each other. Can you send me a message from Mailvelope (to patrick AT enigmail DOT net)?
Hi Patrick—done :) Thanks for looking into this for me ... as I said in my original post, it does work most of the time, but it seems to fail when replying to encrypted emails in Gmail.
Just for anyone else who stumbles across this thread, after emails between Patrick and myself we've discovered that Mailvelope, while it does encrypt successfully, sends the emails as HTML with inline PGP sections which does cause some issues with Enigmail. A different plugin for Chrome and Firefox which works quite nicely with Gmail is FlowCrypt, whichalso has an Android app. So I'm able to use encrypted mail with Thunderbird, Gmail web and Android :)
Not “some issues”, but the fact that Patrick stubornly made Enigmail incompatible with all the other software that use the Inline PGP standard: https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/forum/support/thread/c4f5a4eaad/
By deprecating it with no warning and obligating everyone to change their tools and by not even letting old emails readable, this move made PGP only a nerd whim.