Hi Dan :) Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@posteo.net> writes: > Hi Justus, > > Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I just embarrassed myself a little by sending the same mail over and >> over again. The reason for that is that notmuch-emacs signaled failure, >> i.e. it displayed an error message in the status buffer and didn't close >> the compose buffer, yet it did in fact send the mail. >> >> I suspect that my configuration has to do with that and someone is >> trying to be helpful. So I use msmtp with the authentication password >> encrypted using OpenPGP. Then, I use 'gpg --no-tty -q -d ...' as >> msmtp's passwordeval function. Now, my OpenPGP key has expired, but >> that doesn't stop GnuPG from decrypting the secret, and in fact it >> returns the status code 0. It also prints >> >> gpg: Note: secret key 08CC70F8D8CC765A expired at Mon 25 Jul 2022 05:31:26 PM CEST >> >> to stderr, which is picked up by notmuch-emacs, it says >> >> sending...failed to gpg: Note: secret key 08CC70F8D8CC765A expired at Mon 25 Jul 2022 05:31:26 PM CEST >> >> in the status buffer while the compose buffer stays open. >> >> I suspect that this is not notmuch's fault, but I don't know where else >> to turn to with this bug report. > > I think this is msmtp's "fault". Afaik if msmtp receives something on > stderr for the passwordeval, then it considers that a failure, however > it will still take the password and send your mail. > > I have run into exactly the same problem when gpg started to print > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > gpg: all values passed to '--default-key' ignored > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > stderr and msmtp took that as failure. Good lead, but I looked at msmtp, and it uses popen(3), so it doesn't get to see what the invoked process writes to stderr. Therefore, I think emacs it at fault here. > I have "fixed" that issue by adding a > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > 2> /dev/null > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > at the end of each passwordeval in ~/.msmtprc. Indeed, that is also the workaround I arrived at! Best, Justus _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org