[kmail2] [Bug 316381] Misleading error message when signing

[Denis Kurz]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316381

Denis Kurz <kdenis at posteo.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|4.10.0                      |5.4.0
                 CC|                            |kdenis at posteo.de
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |CONFIRMED
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #4 from Denis Kurz <kdenis at posteo.de> ---
KMail now handles the two cases differently. However, the "error" message is
still confusing. When clicking "Abort" in the password prompt, it says:

"Fehler beim Erstellen der Nachricht: Verarbeitung wurde abgebrochen"

which roughly translates to

"Error during message creation: Process was cancelled"

Sorry, I don't know the original english text.

Anyway, while a click on an "Abort" button might be an error from a
programmer's point of view, it isn't an error from a user's point of view.
Maybe it should say something like:

"Message signing was aborted. Your message has not been sent. If you want to
send an unsigned message, please deselect the \"Sign\" option in the message
composer."

In the other case (if the secring is not where it should be), it asks three
times for my password, which of course even fails when I type the correct
password. However, it then says "... Wrong passphrase." It shouldn't even ask
three times, but give the correct message "I was unable to find your private
key for signing. Please do this and that to fix the problem", I guess.

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