We decided to

I believe this was fixed with Andre's commit above.

As this ticket is old, the original reporter never answered Andres questions and the second case seemed to be POP3 related, which we do not support any more, I'll close this.

We got new suggestions for this:

please check if this is still an issue

Meanwhile we notice this also with OpenPGP Mails. This needs to be further investigated.

We'll keep it as it is, for the improvement see T7814

Updated the task description after talking with @ikloecker

Tested with VS-Desktop-3.3.90.8-Beta and the test gpgol.dll from 2025-09-10 and the same test mail from the original report:
The spawning cycle does not occur any more. (Tested with Outlook setting "show as text only" and without.)

I think it is save to say that we will not implement pgp/inline encryption with attachments

tooltip suggestion for d, not trusted and expired:
Ask the sender for an updated certificate and when you receive it, follow the procedure to establish trust and certify it.
or:
Ask the sender for an updated certificate. When you receive it, you need to establish trust and certify it.

the issue is the same in Gpg4win-5.0.0-beta357:

We decided to remove one more item:

• Copy to card

Because it is only doe once, usually.

The reporter in the forum originally wrote:

We need a better error code from gpg to change this

We decided that gpg should emit a status message for success, too.
gpgme should then look for that status message instead of only absence of error.