Nicki

Why is that? I sign ALL messages for YEARS now using PGP/MIME. The times that MUAs like Outlook Express just displayed a blank page are long gone. Hmm... my quick test (iPhone Mail, Horde Webmail, Gmail) supports your statement. When someone replies to a pgp/mime signed mail all the information about the "signedness" (is this a word?) of the original part gets lost, while it is still preserved in the pgp/inline method. I'm trying to switch to pgp/mime an I will see how my customers react to it (some...

@Nicki: Can you give an example email that is broken by the fix? I could imagine some (partially encrypted) emails generated by KMail in a certain config that could be affected. That is quite easy. Any mail that contains signed and unsigned parts causes erratic behaviour. If I send an signed mail to my customer and then I get an answer back (text above full quote) my inline pgp singed part is untouched and is verified by enigmail. When I reply to this mail I only get my send mail in the reply window...

I'm thinking about displaying a message in the header bar, which is not part of the message and disabling auto-decryption for partially encrypted (or signed) messages. That's probably less confusing for users, even though I'm sure I'll get complaints about that solution too ... The old behaviour was to display a warning bar that informed me that only parts of the message could be verified and that was o.k. with me. If I could enabled the old behaviour I would be happy... :)

I'm thinking about displaying a message in the header bar, which is not part of the message and disabling auto-decryption for partially encrypted (or signed) messages. That's probably less confusing for users, even though I'm sure I'll get complaints about that solution too ... The old behaviour was to display a warning bar that informed me that only parts of the message could be verified and that was o.k. with me. If I could enabled the old behaviour I would be happy... :)

That is quite easy. Any mail that contains signed and unsigned parts causes erratic behaviour. If I send an signed mail to my customer and then I get an answer back (text above full quote) my inline pgp singed part is untouched and is verified by enigmail. When I reply to this mail I only get my send mail in the reply window and the text of my customer is silently dropped. And I consider that a broken behaviour.

Switching to PGP/MIME means that I cannot sign all my mails anymore. Because my customers without pgp cannot read my mails. And PGP/Mime support in Microsoft Outlook is also not the best. PGP/Mime solves one problem and creates a lot more in a heterogeneous environment... :(

I think the "more radical solution" breaks enigmail for everyone who has to communicate with people that don't use encryption/signing. It may fix the problem stated in this bug report, but it creates a whole lot of usability issues in the real world.

I still goes further... When replying to a mail with mixed (signed / unsigned) content I can only reply to the signed content. This is super annoying and as I can't disable this behaviour I think this is a bug. I already disabled automatic decryption of mails. But I cannot disable it for the content of the new windows in which I'm going to reply... Is there any other pgp/gpg plugin that I can use? This really brings me to the brink of just ditching this whole thing. At least I cannot recommend it...