Kmail and gpg freeze

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Wed, 9. May 2001 14:03, Ben Paul Wise wrote on the GnuPG-users ML:
> Brian,
>
> I've encountered the same. The problem is that KMail waits on gpg,
> until gpg returns from a search of your favorite server. So, to be
> literal, KMail is not 'freezing', just 'waiting'. Killing gpg is one
> way to end the wait; waiting a few minutes until gpg times out is
> another.

If you don't want gpg to search the server for a key you should turn 
this option of.
OTOH, we could use the --no-auto-key-retrieve option in KMail.

> Having KMail run gpg in the background would be a better solution -
> but that goes to the KMail mailing list!

So I forwarded it there.

Running gpg in the background makes IMHO no sense if KMail tries to 
verify the signature of a message or tries to decrypt a message because 
KMail simply can't procede before gpg has returned.

Hmm, now that I think about it, it might actually make sense for signed 
messages. As long as gpg hasn't verified the signature we could simply 
display the message as not yet verified. And if gpg finally returns we 
could change the displayed message according to the status of the 
signature. The only problem is that I currently have no idea how hard 
this would be to implement.
If you selected another message the verification of the last message 
would have to be canceled. Also it would make sense to cache the 
verification status so that signed messages don't have to be verified 
everytime you select them.

> On Tuesday 08 May 2001 21:22, Brian M. Carlson allegedly wrote:
> > Whenever I read my mail with Kmail, if there is an unknown key used
> > to sign a message, it will be fetched with gpg. Kmail freezes while
> > gpg executes and I must kill gpg in order to make kmail work again.
> > The command line used for gpg is "gpg --batch --set-filename stdin
> > --decrypt". Is there a flaw in this command line for gpg 1.0.5-1?
> > Is the "--set-filename stdin" even necessary, and is it breaking
> > it?

The "--set-filename stdin" has already been removed in the cvs version.

Regards,
Ingo
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