For the past few hours I've been pounding my head against a MailMate
hang which I'm likely not alone with.
The latest batch of Apple Product Security emails caused MailMate to
hang for me very reproducibly. I don't know the full explanation for
why, but it has something to do with the GPG signatures on them. They
recently rotated keys, so while I had many keys in my keychain for them,
they were all expired. This shouldn't cause a hang in itself. The
messages are structured as single plain text MIME objects including the
signature, encoded by quoted-printable. This shouldn't cause a hang in
itself.
I don't fully understand the hang. However, the fix was relatively
simple: remove all the old APS keys from my GPG keychain, quit GPG
Keychain, kill all of the orphaned gpg and gpg-agent processes you may
have from failed attempts to open the problem messageand the process
running /usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/shutdown-gpg-agent (which starts at
login.) Go to https://support.apple.com/en-us/102148 and copy the
current key. Launch GPG Keychain, which will notice the key in the
clipboard (if you copied it right) and prompt you to import it. Once the
right key is in the keychain, MailMate has no problem with the messages.
--
Bill Cole
[email protected] or [email protected]
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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