mu / mu4e fails to decrypt PGP/MIME encrypted message

[Charl Botha]

Using an up-to-date version from github master, my mu4e is perfectly able to verify PGP/MIME signed emails, but fails to decrypt PGP/MIME encrypted emails. It simply shows that there are two attachments (this is to be expected for PGP/MIME), but it doesn't make any further attempt at decryption.

It looks like there are others with the same issue: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/186 (I've added my information there)

Is there anyone else on the list that perhaps knows of a work-around or a fix for this? At the moment, I do "M-x epa-mail-decrypt" in the raw email view to be able to read the decrypted version, but this has a number of limitations.

[Jonas Kalderstam]

I have experienced this as well but have been using a workaround as follows:

1. Open an *unread* encrypted email - it will be empty except for two attachments

2. Go back to Inbox

3. Immediately re-open the now *read* encrypted email - decrypted attachment will be displayed

It appears this is only an issue with unread mail. I only discovered this workaround by accident.

Added this information to the GitHub issue as well.

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Jonas

[nils.s...@gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

can it be that this bug is back?
Especially if an email is sent with AppleMail I receive a message with 2 attachments which i have to decrypt manually.
For mails sent with thunderbird I can use the workaround Jonas proposed.

Does anyone experience the same problem with the latest mu4e verison?

Greets and thanks,
Nils