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

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:09:43 -0500, Celejar wrote:

> > Thanks for your bug report!
> Thanks for the reply; Gmail decided that it was spam (:/) so I didn't
> see until today.

Hm, it seems Gmail has some problems :-)
 
> > 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

> > 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

> $ for i in `seq 1 100`; do gpg --encrypt --recipient d at e.f test >> output 2>&1; done
> $ wc -l output
> I get '200 output'

> $ for i in `seq 1 100`; do perl/test.pl >> output 2>&1; done
> $ wc -l output
> I got (on 4 separate runs) 272, 292, 272, and 268 (4 lines of output
> per 'successful' run). [Of course, I did 'rm output' between runs.]
> My gpg configuration is stock; I don't recall tweaking anything. I have
> an empty $HOME/.gnupg/gpg.conf .

Thanks for your tests!

Unfortunately I have to admit that I'm running out of ideas now.

Does someone else from the Debian Perl Group have any clue what's
going on here?

Cheers,
gregor

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