thunderbird+enigmail issue on fedora 21

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Thu Jul 16 11:21:42 UTC 2015


On 07/16/15 18:20, François Patte wrote:
> Le 15/07/2015 16:16, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>> On 07/15/15 21:40, François Patte wrote:
>>> Le 15/07/2015 15:32, Paul Cartwright a écrit :
>>>> On 07/15/2015 09:24 AM, François Patte wrote:
>>>>> I have an issue with thunderbird+enigmail on fedora 21: TB is
>>>>> unable to send a signed message and enigmail complains that it
>>>>> cannot find the gpg key.
>>>>>
>>>>> Every time pinentry-curses is stuck and uses 100% of CPU.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using Enigmail>Manage keys shows that the key is there and
>>>>> valid...
>>>>>
>>>>> What's wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>> is the key assigned to the right user that is sending the
>>>> email??
>>> Of course! And I have absolutely no problem to use enigmail (and
>>> TB) on a debian install (with same /home, and thus same account for
>>> me...)
>>>
>> Are you saying you're dual booting and using the same home directory
>> in both?
> Yes! That's what I am saying.
>
>> Has this worked before, or a new problem?
> This is a new problem! I used to transfert the same /home directory
> since ages when I install a new distro (or update one).
>
> *BUT* I cannot make any test on fresh account *because it is now
> impossible to configure my mail account on thunderbird*:
>
> 1st it ask me if I want a mail account at Gandhi's NO
>
> 2nd I enter my own mail address (that I have been using for 20 years,
> the one which I use to send this mail...) And it checks something then
> conclude that it does not exist in its databases and I can go to hell!!!
>
>
> When do people will stop to "help" with such fu... tools??
>
> I am wasting my time because some people somewhere have a small brain
> and cannot imagine that other people know what they are doing!!!
>
>
Focusing on the Thunderbird problem to begin with.....

As I understand it, Debian doesn't enable/use selinux by default.  You have to do some enabling when you install or maybe it can be done later.

So, when you use T-Bird and enigmail under Fedora you may be running into a selinux issue.

I would check to see if the .gnupg is labeled correctly it should look like this....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ ls -Zd .gnupg
unconfined_u:object_r:gpg_secret_t:s0 .gnupg

And the files within the same.

I would also check /var/log/audit/audit.log for any AVC records being generated when T-Bird + enigmail is used.

As for you other issue with setting up a mail profile....you should still be able to manually configure your old email service.  There is a button for that, I just don't recall when/where it is at the moment.



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