#946200 neomutt: decrypting email with gpg+pinentry-tty is broken

Package:
neomutt
Source:
neomutt
Description:
command line mail reader based on Mutt, with added features
Submitter:
Mike Hommey
Date:
2021-09-10 18:57:02 UTC
Severity:
important
#946200#5
Date:
2019-12-05 09:55:02 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I'm reporting this against the first version I found shows the problem.
Downgrading the the previous version (20180716+dfsg.1-1.2) works. The
version in unstable as of writing (20191111+dfsg.1-1) doesn't work.

Opening an encrypted email used to show the following message on one
line:
Enter PGP passphrase

then ask the passphrase.

Since version 20191102+dfsg.1-1, what happens is that the following
message is displayed, garbling mutt's output:

Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key:
                                                                               "Mike Hommey <glandium@debian.org>"
               4096-bit RSA key, ID 8C9FD97B062C7945,
                                                     created 2009-06-18 (main key ID E42AA04FA6AA8C72).

    Passphrase:

(yes, with all that spacing)

and typing doesn't do anything. All I can do to come back to neomutt is
to kill the pinentry process. If I Ctrl+C, I can quit neomutt, but
pinentry still runs, and the shell doesn't receive all the keystrokes
anymore until pinentry is killed.

This does work fine when using pinentry-gnome3. It kind of works with
pinentry-curses, but neomutt's UI get garbled after the prompt returns.
It fails with pinentry-tty.

20180716+dfsg.1-1.2 didn't seem to be using pinentry at all.
#946200#10
Date:
2021-09-10 18:25:17 UTC
From:
To:
I'm running NeoMutt 20201127 (bullseye). I'm using a Nitrokey and
switched via

        update-alternatives --config pinentry

to pinentry-tty.

I have the same issues, when I try to decrypt a message. But, signing
a message is working. When it's working, the screen shows the shell.
When it's not working, I can see a part of neomutt.