Hello Noctambule, sorry for the late reply. I am out as often and long as i can these days.
Noctambule wrote in <z8w0J-Qep-bNBF_ZnlFrf_KZqO0KzbGKAgN7CndKTQfYf--g9gGMLnOVn51uGHWtws6S_OB\ [email protected]>: |First of all, huge kudos for your detailled answer. I really appreciate it, |especially because it's not so common. Oh, but this really depends on where you listen. I got extensive answers myself in the past for sure. |‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ |On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 18:50, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> \ |wrote: |> 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]: ... |> fetched automatically. You could use all other password sources |> too, as documented in [2]. |> |> [2] https://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html#12 | |Yep, I saw your lines in the man pages and I will apply them ASAP. I gave you credit for the bugfix in v14.9.17, it will be in .18 that i will release tomorrow (you are mentioned in THANKS including your email address). (The lookup in .17 goes for $LOGNAME@[NO HOST].smime-cert-key, which is wrong, it should use *from*...) ... |>|The keys assigned to commands are not applied. For example, if a type |>|"Up", "Down" and "Backspace", it shows the following results : |>| |>|:^[OA^[OB^? |> |> When does that happen? When you are asked for the password?? |> |>|The only way to go down is to type on "Return", but the output will |>|be also messed up. Every line will have glitches like this : |>| |>|: |>|All servers will be using Debian buster |>|: |> |> This looks like less(1), actually. Hmmm... This makes me wonder. |> Which version of s-nail do you actually use? There has been |> a complete rewrite of the child process and termios handling in |> v14.9.14 (released 2019-07-27), and such a problem should not |> happen. You must be using an elder version? | |It happens after I bindly typed my password. Indeed, my pager is |less(1). You are right, I was still using v14.8.16. I assumed the Oh! That is very different indeed. |package was correctly updated on Void Linux, but it is orphaned. Void, yes, unfortunately. Ypnose was the maintainer, he went away from Void long ago. Then there was a Void bot looking for updates, but it did not mean a thing. I also sent xtraeme quite some mails, but never got a response. |I finally built v14.9.17 and the results are indeed very much |different. I can see now "smime-cert-key requires a password:" |prompt before less(1) is called. And it works perfectly. Nice ! The interactive prompt, yes. It should also be more informative with .18, then. ... |The package was orphaned, I'll now build it by myself, it'll prevent |bugreports on obsolete versions. Sorry for the inconvenience, building was hopefully no problem. ... --End of <z8w0J-Qep-bNBF_ZnlFrf_KZqO0KzbGKAgN7CndKTQfYf--g9gGMLnOVn51uGH\ [email protected]> Noctambule wrote in <qFJ06SPsvfnAF0wPwx9G1ojWDfgwezi8xrxkhDlwJNEPcPRLLbk-yPqibvfiv1IhfDceP7v\ [email protected]>: |On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 00:28, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> \ |wrote: |> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in |> 20200414165052.oyklv%[email protected]: |>|Noctambule wrote in |>|<VoDeZrZpg0_t9tDNC1tLAY4K_KTfHPwu7YQHxi9O0d587pGBHzKDb8e-EBRaymOd19nWETn\ |>|[email protected]>: ... |> Actually i could not let this stand but write the test today, |> which revealed problems with this automated password lookup. | |Wow, that was fast. Good work ! | |> I will look to fix that one for real tomorrow, and make a bugfix |> release as soon as possible! |> |> Thanks for reporting this issue! | |Thanks to you for your help and your time. And a nice weekend here. Ciao from Germany, --End of <qFJ06SPsvfnAF0wPwx9G1ojWDfgwezi8xrxkhDlwJNEPcPRLLbk-yPqibvfiv1\ [email protected]> --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)
