[sylpheed:36876] Re: sylpheed hangs when a message has encryption
richard lucassen
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Mon Jan 6 06:19:58 JST 2020
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 13:09:29 +0100
Ingo Strauch <ingo.strauch at gmx.net> wrote:
> > When someone sends a message with some form of encryption, Sylpheed
> > hangs. I need to "killall sylpheed" to get it back in the air. I
> > use a Dovecot IMAP server. It is the second time I see such
> > behaviour.
>
> Not sure if it's the same issue, but I've seen similar behaviour for
> mails that were encrypted with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME
> instead of PGP: Sylpheed was completely blocked for a very long time.
When I start sylpheed from a terminal I see what happens: it asks for
the private key passphrase. This should normally pop-up in sylpheed I'd
say. Is that correct?
When I enter the passphrase it works like a charm.
R.
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