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

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Fri May 23 04:07:05 UTC 2014


Quoting Edward Burr <egburr at burr.cc>:

> 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.

Check your Horde logs (and make sure you are logging at a verbose  
level - like DEBUG).  Otherwise you can do something like put a  
breakpoint in the javascript debugger before the code to automatically  
close the window so that you can view the notifications.

michael

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