[imp] Entering S/MIME passphrase fails when sending email

Edward Burr egburr at burr.cc
Thu May 22 19:54:38 UTC 2014


Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Edward Burr <egburr at burr.cc>:
>
>> Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 5.1.4
>> Horde 5.1.6
>> Imp 6.1.7
>>
>> If I am writing a new email and have not yet entered my S/MIME  
>> passphrase this session, when I click send, Horde promps me to  
>> enter it. But, when I do, a pink error message pops up and  
>> disappears too quickly to read, and the email vanishes and does not  
>> get sent.
>>
>> The passphrase does apparently take effect, though, because I can  
>> then write the email anew and send it successfully.
>>
>> My work-around for now is when I get that prompt, I cancel it, go  
>> to my mail preferences for S/MIME, and enter my passphrase there,  
>> then go click Send again, and the email sends successfully the  
>> first time.
>
> If the message sends, the passphrase was successful entered.  A  
> 'horde.success' notification (green) is displayed.
>
> If the passphrase was NOT successfully entered, A 'horde.error'  
> notification (red) is displayed.
>
> There's no way in the current code for a successful result to be  
> returned while issuing a horde.error notification.  So either the  
> horde.error notification is being triggered by something in the code  
> other than the passphrase verification code (in which case you  
> should be seeing both a green and a red message) or I have no idea  
> what is happening, and can't reproduce.

Actually, there is also a green message in addition to the red one.  
The problem is they both disappear so quickly, I don't get a chance to  
see them.
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