[Enigmail] can not query passphrase in batch mode

[Stefan X]

Also I experienced that the popup windows which asks for a passphrase 
does not name the particular key. Therefore I don't know which 
passphrase I should enter (I use several keys with different 
passphrases) and have to try and retry several times.

Should I file a bug entry for this problem or will it be fixed anyway?

Stefan X schrieb:
> 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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