[Enigmail] can not query passphrase in batch mode

[Stefan X]

Than it would be better if
A) Enigmail does not enable this option automatically at all or
B) at least Enigmail should inform the user about the changed 
configuration by a popup window. Still this may cause problems for 
unskilled users who don't understand the message.

What do you think?

Do you recommend to use GnuPG 2 already or should I wait for a better 
support by Enigmail?

Patrick Brunschwig schrieb:
> Stefan X wrote:
>> That's it! The option "never ask for any passphrase" was enabled. But I 
>> am pretty sure I never enabled this option. So I created another key 
>> without a passphrase. I found out that in such case the option is 
>> automatically enabled by Enigmail no matter if another key with a 
>> passphrase exist or not. For my opinion this is a bug. Instead Enigmail 
>> should check at time of key creation if another key with passphrase 
>> protection exist. If this is the case this option should NOT 
>> automatically be enabled. Otherwise it could. It would even be better if 
>> Enigmail checks at runtime if a passphrase is required and does query or 
>> does not query appropriately. Than such option would be obsolete.
> 
> 
> Yes, that's what Enigmail does. Unfortunately Enigmail doesn't know
> anything about other keys and if they are password protected or not (and
> it's not quite easy to find this out at all). In the future (i.e. for
> gpg2), this task will be handled by gpg-agent.
> 
> 
> -Patrick
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