[Bug]: When the contact has no published OMEMO keys, Monal sends a known unusable message about monal HOT 4 CLOSED

Is it an option to remove the "Ignore" button from the first popup, and disable OMEMO entirely until the keys are properly configured?

No. Instead the error message could be improved. Something like

• Monal was unable to lookup the encryption keys of
• Please check if you and added each other into your contact lists
• Note, the contact may not support encrypted chats using OMEMO. If that is the case you can only contact using unencrypted messages

But that would be a wall of text...

I had a look at Conversations, Gajim and Siskin and they all (in various ways) prevent you entirely from sending OMEMO-encrypted messages in this scenario.

When rewriting the chat UI this could/should be improved.

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I'm not associated with Monal, just interested in this issue. I was able to replicate this.

• Monal Stable 6.2.0 (895) on jabber.fr
• Profanity (no OMEMO keys configured) on another Prosody server

Every time I opened the chat with the profantiy user, it showed this alert:

• If I chose "Ignore" I got the same as you.
• If I chose "Disable Encryption" I could send unencrypted messages fine.
• If I tried to re-enable encryption, it wouldn't let me:

Is it an option to remove the "Ignore" button from the first popup, and disable OMEMO entirely until the keys are properly configured?

I had a look at Conversations, Gajim and Siskin and they all (in various ways) prevent you entirely from sending OMEMO-encrypted messages in this scenario.

I'm open to working on this too if that helps, though I'd need approval from my job first.

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I am unable to add new contacts via Monal. Same error about the keys. None of my contacts use xmmp. I am using JMP.chat

I add contacts via Dino. Sent messages from Dino appear in Monal but with an error

Stable 6.2.0

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@lowviz You are unable to add contacts?
This issue is about a warning message related to encryption that can be ignored (and prevents you from sending messages if you ignore it).

--> If the warning message pops up, just don't select ignore.

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