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I can't paste my private key passphrase into the dialog box

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I'm using Thunderbird on Ubuntu 14.10 with Enigmail for GPG encryption. When Thunderbird needs my passphrase, a dialog box pops up asking for it, but it won't let me paste the passphrase into the dialog box. I use a 64 character totally random passphrase including special characters, and I can't sit and type the thing every time. I need to be able to paste it from my password manager. I'm not even sure if this is a Thunderbird problem, or if it's with Enigmail or Ubuntu. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you!

--chriscrutch

I'm using Thunderbird on Ubuntu 14.10 with Enigmail for GPG encryption. When Thunderbird needs my passphrase, a dialog box pops up asking for it, but it won't let me paste the passphrase into the dialog box. I use a 64 character totally random passphrase including special characters, and I can't sit and type the thing every time. I need to be able to paste it from my password manager. I'm not even sure if this is a Thunderbird problem, or if it's with Enigmail or Ubuntu. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you! --chriscrutch

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Although I do not use Engimail and therefore lack the real knowledge you require, I have located some information which may help.

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Vahaolana Nofidina

Although I do not use Engimail and therefore lack the real knowledge you require, I have located some information which may help.

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Thanks so much for the links. None of them directly solved the issue, but they led to places that did. The solution involved updating a particular package that was unavailable in the 14.10 repos and thus had to be manually downloaded, compiled from source, and installed. Marked as solved.