Re: [Evolution] Misleading GPG error message from Evolution

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 10:57 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> In the case when I got the error message, Evolution never asked for
> my passphrase. It only did so when I removed the offending
> destination. That reinforced the idea that there was a problem with
> my secret key.

        Hi,
I do not know why that your version of gpg/gpg2 gives different error
message and behaves differently from that mine. The version as such is
not that different, as far as I can tell, except of the distribution
version, where I use a newer (by one).

> I note from the gpg manpage that the option --status-fd can be used
> to get encoded status information, including whether signatures are
> good and encryption has been successful. This might be a better way
> to generate more user-friendly error messages.

Right, and it is used by the camel-gpg-context.c. Use:
   $ CAMEL_DEBUG=gpg evolution
to see what information is exchanged between the evolution and the gpg
binary, including the status notices.

I agree that a more user-friendly error message would be useful.
        Bye,
        Milan