Re: new problem with Balsa (git head)

Albrecht Dreß <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:48:49 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
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Hi Jack:

Am 01.02.18 20:15 schrieb(en) Jack:
> I actually just had the problem again, this time while fetching mail, and even the POP3 fetch dialog stopped "spinning" until Balsa started responding again. Whatever the cause, it looks like it's interrupting/blocking the program at a fairly deep level. Also - every message that is selected when this happens does show the PGP lock. I also think the reason it is so sporadic is that only a few of my mailboxes (for IT related mailing lists) have any messages which are PGP signed.

In order to trace the timing of the GpgME operations, you can enable debugging as described here: <https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gpgme/Debugging.html>.

I also noticed that Crypto recently tends to be somewhat slow, in particular if the local key ring and/or the TOFU db is large. I don't know, though, if this is related to gpgme or gpg. The balsa code interfacing to gpgme hasn't been changed since ages. A quick comparision between using gpg2 from the command line and through gpgme seems to be somewhat slower for the latter, but I don't have real numbers yet.

Please check if the gpg option “auto-key-retrieve” is enabled, as it may also slow down the operation.

As a quick workaround, you might want to change the decrypt/signature check option for the critical mailbox to “never”. In this case, the crypto backend is called only if you explicitly request the operation.

I will look into this issue…

Cheers,
Albrecht.

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