[Enigmail] Any plans for a new release soon?

Jeff Walden jwalden at MIT.EDU
Tue Dec 2 23:50:55 PST 2008


I installed the latest release version of enigmail a couple weeks ago in anticipation of Mozilla's Bugzilla switching to require a PGP key to read (encrypted) bugmail for hidden bugs (particularly security-sensitive bugs).  The current plan is that without such a key, the email is supposed to be a link pointing to the bug (plus an explanatory message saying how to enable full-text email again).

Mozilla hasn't enabled that yet, but I've been fiddling and experimenting.  So far the tasks I've attempted work fine -- with the notable exception of importing keys from a keyserver.  This problem was reported to this mailing list in September:

http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/enigmail/2008-September/010295.html

The suggestion there was to try a nightly, which did indeed work -- and it's worked for me, too.  However, it would be much better if I hadn't had to blunder around and only eventually trawl a few months of email archives to figure that out.  Any chance of a new release soon?  It'd be good if Mozilla's instructions on being able to get full bugmail for hidden bugs didn't have to recommend downloading a nightly enigmail build recommended by enigmail "AT YOUR OWN RISK" to avoid this bug.

Jeff


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