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Bug 586746 - Messages than cannot be decrypted should show a user friendly message
Messages than cannot be decrypted should show a user friendly message
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.26.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-23 12:36 UTC by Jonathan Ernst
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:08 UTC
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Description Jonathan Ernst 2009-06-23 12:36:24 UTC
Messages than cannot be decrypted should show a user friendly message instead of cryptic gpg output. The message should be shown in the information bar (similar to the bar that appears when the message could be decrypted)
Comment 1 André Klapper 2009-06-23 13:04:12 UTC
Enhancement bug -> Enhancement severity.
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2009-10-23 17:05:53 UTC
Can be, but what do you expect to see there? I believe the error message from GPG should still be there, as to see what is the real issue. So something like:
   From: xxx
   To: xxx
   Subject: xxx
   -----------------------
   *some user friendly message*
   GPG (or S/MIME) error message
   -----------------------

It's showing for me now:
   -----------------------
   Could not parse PGP/MIME message
   User canceled operation.
   -----------------------

I do not see anything wrong about that. Maybe, instead of better text you mean some visual distinction between the informative text and the error message itself? Even I've a feeling that both lines are from the GPG camel context.
Comment 3 Tobias Mueller 2010-04-08 12:16:15 UTC
Well. I'm all for including the original error message in the user friendly message as per comment #2.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:08:28 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
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