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On 10.11.14 21:52, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> When creating a signed message (whether encrypted or not), if
> gpg-agent fails to sign the message, gpg 2.1.0 emits the first part
> of the message, but then terminates with a non-zero error code.
>
> gpg 1.4.x (and i think 2.0.x, but haven't tested today) both
> terminate with a non-zero error code but produce no output on
> stdout.
>
> This change in behavior causes problems with enigmail in
> particular, which appears to send the truncated results when
> producing a PGP/MIME encrypted+signed message if the agent fails to
> sign.
>
> I believe this is two distinct issues, and maybe we want to address
> them both:
>
> * gnupg 2.1.x might want to buffer data before the signature is
> made, and decline to emit anything if the signature fails
Ack.
> * enigmail probably should detect that its invocation of gpg
> returns a non-zero error code and raise an error in the message
> creation step. I note that it appears to do so properly for when
> generating non-encrypted PGP/MIME-signed messages, it's just
> failing at PGP/MIME encrypted+signed messages.
How exactly does this misbehaviour express to the user? I'm not
getting a falsely sent mail or a misleading error message.
First Alert:
Error - encryption command failed
Second Alert:
Sending of message failed.
Please verify that your Mail & Newsgroups account settings are
correct and try again.
Ludwig
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