#3589: prompts for PGP / SMIME passphrase when searching
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Reporter: william | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 1.6
Component: mutt | Version:
Keywords: |
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Comment(by dgc):
Replying to [comment:5 vinc17]:
> Replying to [comment:4 dgc@…]:
> > But we don't need a separate setting for not searching encrypted
messages, because we can do that in the search itself. That's all I
intended to comment upon.
> But this would mean that the user would have to type "!~G" for each
search. Using a macro to add "!~G" automatically may be a solution.
However this is not very satisfactory. Indeed, "!~G" will filter out
encrypted messages, which is different from assuming that encrypted
messages never have a body match: if the user has a pattern against the
header only, he doesn't need (and may not want) "!~G".
My previous context quotes were eaten by the email gateway. I was saying
that not being able to interrupt the search is a problem, and poor caching
is a problem. We have to consider new feature adds under the assumption
that relevant problems/bugs are resolved. Assuming that, I don't think
it's self-evident that very many people would always want to skip
encrypted messages.
If it is true that people *always* wants to skip encrypted messages, and
it's true that we want to provide them a setting, then we need to make it
more general. Instead of a $always_skip_encrypted quad-option, it would
be better to have a base filter that is always applied to searches,
without being an explicit part of the search expression. That has a LOT
more applicability and solves the problem as proposed exactly -- *if* we
actually think that it's a problem. I still don't, but would suppose a
base filter. In fact I might still have that patch somewhere.
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