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Is there a way to disable Thunderbird from decrypting PGP messages automatically?

I had asked on reddit and a user suggested to use the config editor and change temp.openpgp.autoDecrypt to false. After setting to False, nothing changed. It stays as False after restarting Thunderbird though.

What I'm wanting to do is to be able to see the PGP encrypted message and then click a button to decrypt it.

I'm using Thunderbird 115.7.0 (64-bit) on windows 10.

Hi Mozilla community!

Just upgrading from TB 102.13 (on Manjaro) to 115.0.1 (on Arch Linux), nearly everything works and the GUI experience is much better! Great job :-)

But after importing my PGP-Keys and trying to send mails encrypted, I received an error with no further explanation. On the command line I got some hints and assume, that this might be the origin of the problem:

punycode.js, line 440: ReferenceError: module is not defined

the packages libidn and libidn2, which provide punycode.js, are already installed.

Is there something wrong with my installation or, on the other hand, the bug already known?

Thank you very much & kind regards, Peer

Output [..] console.debug: "Found 14 public keys and 10 secret keys (10 protected, 0 unprotected)" console.debug: "Successfully loaded optional OpenPGP library libgpgme.so from system's standard library locations" console.debug: "gpgme version: 1.21.0" __JavaScript error: moz-extension://04f07a36-b26f-478b-b410-7c40254a26cc/punycode/punycode.js, line 440: ReferenceError: module is not defined__ console.debug: "Trying to load /usr/lib/thunderbird/libotr.so" console.debug: "Trying to load libotr.so from system's standard library locations" console.debug: "Successfully loaded OTR library libotr.so from system's standard library locations" console.debug: (new TypeError("manUrl.value is undefined", "chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeDecrypt.jsm", 428)) console.debug: (new TypeError("manUrl.value is undefined", "chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeDecrypt.jsm", 428)) console.debug: "OpenPGP error status: M\xF6glicherweise PGP/MIME-verschl\xFCsselte oder signierte Nachricht; verwenden Sie die Funktion \u201EEntschl\xFCsseln/Verifizieren\u201C zum Verifizieren." console.debug: (new TypeError("manUrl.value is undefined", "chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeDecrypt.jsm", 428)) console.debug: (new TypeError("manUrl.value is undefined", "chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeDecrypt.jsm", 428)) console.log: "CryptoAPI.sync() failed result: %o" (new TypeError("argument of size undefined ArrayType constructor must be an array object or integer", "chrome://openpgp/content/modules/RNP.jsm", 3384)) console.debug: (new Error("failure in finishCryptoEncapsulation, exitCode: -1", "chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeEncrypt.jsm", 537)) JavaScript error: chrome://openpgp/content/modules/mimeEncrypt.jsm, line 537: Error: failure in finishCryptoEncapsulation, exitCode: -1 console.error: mailnews.send: ({}) console.error: mailnews.send: "Sending failed; , exitCode=2153185313, originalMsgURI=mailbox-message://xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [..]

pacman -Ss punycode core/libidn2 2.3.4-3 [Installiert]

• Free software implementation of IDNA2008, Punycode and TR46

extra/libidn 1.41-1 [Installiert] [..]

I noticed that using OpenPGP encryption in Thunderbird results in the encrypted email content to be ASCII armored. How do I configure Thunderbird to produce binary PGP instead of ASCII armored PGP? An OpenPGP encrypted file in binary format is smaller than one in armored format (i.e. text format).