Hello Noctambule!

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20200414165052.oyklv%[email protected]>:
 |Noctambule wrote in
 |<VoDeZrZpg0_t9tDNC1tLAY4K_KTfHPwu7YQHxi9O0d587pGBHzKDb8e-EBRaymOd19nWETn\
 |[email protected]>:
 ...
 ||At work, I extensively use S/MIME and due to the recent event, I
 ||had to use s-nail to read my emails. S/MIME decryption works quite
 ||nicely but I still have a problem. When I attempt to read an
 ||encrypted mail, the PAGER is launched before I see the "PEM pass phrase:"
 ||prompt. So we can't see that prompt If I blindly type my password,
 ||the mail is finally decrypted but the PAGER get messed up.
 ...
 |Since i had the same problem i added a "credential helper" which
 |could possibly solve your problem, too.  It is documented under
 |smime-sign-cert-USER@HOST, including bad english at [1]:
 |
 |  For signing and decryption purposes it is possible to use encrypted
 |  keys, and the pseudo-host(s) ‘[email protected]’ for the
 |  private key (and ‘[email protected]’ for the certificate
 |  stored in the same file) will be used for performing any necessary
 |  password lookup, therefore the lookup can be automated via the
 ...

Actually i could not let this stand but write the test today,
which revealed problems with this automated password lookup.

I will look to fix that one for real tomorrow, and make a bugfix
release as soon as possible!

Thanks for reporting this issue!

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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