Hello Noctambule,

sorry for the late reply.
I am out as often and long as i can these days.

Noctambule wrote in
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 |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
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 |>|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.

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Noctambule wrote in
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 |On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 00:28, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> \
 |wrote:
 |> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
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 |>|Noctambule wrote in
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 |> 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,

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--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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