Package: enigmail Version: 1.9.8.1-1~deb9u1 I wanted to send a signed message but Enigmail wouldn't let me. A popup was appearing:
"encryption command failed" After investigating at the command line, I found my subkey had expired. This is fine for a knowledgable user but not sufficient for somebody who relies on the GUI. This error appears for many other problems too, so even using a search engine doesn't help a user work out what is wrong. I used "gpg --edit-key ...." to see my keys and this made it obvious the key had expired. On the machine with my master private key, I ran the following commands to update the expiry on the subkeys: gpg --edit-key key 2 key 3 expire 365 save and then I sent my key out to the keyservers, exported the whole key to a file and imported it on the laptop where subkeys are used. It would be really useful to have some of this automated through Enigmail too: it could: a) show a message telling you when the subkey expired b) remind you to update it on the machine with the master key c) offer to try and fetch the updated key from a keyserver or import it from a file As a bonus, maybe it can even warn the user 30 days before it expires? Regards, Daniel
