[Enigmail] Enigmail hanging when importing a public key?

[John Clizbe]

Olav Seyfarth wrote:
> Hi Dogssup,
> 
>> When someone sends me a message I click the pen icon which attempts to
>> find the public key by their ID. I tried connecting to
>> pool.sks-keyservers.net and the progress bar simply hangs. I've waited a
>> long time before hitting cancel.
> 
> pool.sks-keyservers.net is a DNS round robin, so you end up on some server
> you cannot tell where it is and how quick it responds. Depending on the query
> sting, answers may take a while, but sometimes servers don't answer as quick
> as they should. You may retry (yielding a DNS A record of another server) or
> explicitely select a server you trust hoping for constant search performance.
> The list of selectabel servers may be edited in OpenPGP preferences (Advanced
> Settings -> Keyserver).

Ditto that.

If any of these servers are down, keyserver requests can block for a
while until there is a timeout and GPG gives up.  You can change the
timeout value (it defaults to 2 minutes) with:

  keyserver-options timeout=xxxxx

Where xxxxx is the number of seconds to wait for the keyserver.

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