Notmuch, Emacs and pinentry -- oh my

[David Bremner]

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Ralph Seichter <abbot at monksofcool.net> writes:
>
>> Alas, in these cases I can tell that Emacs expects input of me, but it
>> only uses the bottom most two lines to do so, meaning that I cannot
>> quite read what is expected of me. Assuming that pinentry is involved, I
>> tried switching between pinentry-curses and pinentry-tty in my shell
>> profile, but the result is unreadable in both cases. If I use commands
>> like "pgp -d ..." in the shell, both pinentry variants work fine (in the
>> case of curse, the prompt is smack in the middle of my terminal window,
>> as expected).
>
> My only (not always popular advice) w.r.t. pinentry is to use a
> graphical pinentry if at all possible.
>

I guess I should mention the "nuclear" option of decrypting your
messages on indexing. Again, up to you to evaluate the risks, but see
notmuch-config(1) for details.

d