Bug#412041: libmail-gnupg-perl: encryption methods behave weirdly if bad recipients are passed

[gregor herrmann]

tags 412041 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:56:02 -0500, Celejar wrote:

Thanks for your bug report!

> But sometimes, the program just dies without any explanation, dropping
> unceremoniously to a command prompt. This occurs even when running under
> rhe debugger; the debugger itself just terminates with no explanation.
> 
> The following simple program exhibits the aforementioned behavior:
> 
> ---Begin Program---
> 
[..]
> 
> ---End Program---
> 
> When I run this repeatedly in succession, sometimes I get the above
> 'gpg: ...' error lines, and sometimes the program just terminates with
> no output. The 'print' line is never reached.

I just ran your test program a hundred times in a loop, and each
invocation returned the expected result:
gpg: d at e.f: skipped: public key not found
 gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: public key not found

I'm not sure what the conclusion is; maybe a problem in your gpg
setup (keyserver timeout or something)? What happens if you try the
following:
$ touch test
$ gpg --encrypt --recipient d at e.f test
(or in a loop like:
for i in `seq 1 100`; do echo $i; gpg --encrypt --recipient d at e.f test; done 
)

In my tests the output is the same as in your test script: 100
identical error messages:
gpg: d at e.f: skipped: public key not found
gpg: test: encryption failed: public key not found


Cheers,
gregor
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