[RFE] Call `gpg --recv-keys` asynchronously

Subject: [RFE] Call `gpg --recv-keys` asynchronously

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:35:05 -0800

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From: Steven Allen

Currently, notmuch fetches keys synchronously. This can be *very* slow
(I fetch keys over tor) and locks up emacs for the duration. Therefore,
this fetch really should be asynchronous.

Unfortunately, getting this to work well (i.e. not interleave output in
the `*notmuch-crypto-gpg-out*` buffer) requires a non-trivial amount of
work.

- Steven

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