Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] kmail, gpg, can't display encrypted mail (bad passphrase)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:04:22
Message-Id: 200509200714.55825.trapni@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] kmail, gpg, can't display encrypted mail (bad passphrase) by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Monday 19 September 2005 14:57, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Monday 19 September 2005 14:16, Christian Parpart wrote:
3 > > The question is: why does kmail not ask me for a passphrase when no
4 > > gpg-agent is available anyway?
5 >
6 > Mine does, with a big fat warning (this morning something went wrong) to
7 > the manual to get it working better. I've got 3.4.2-r1.
8
9 Well, I didn't get it working natively, but when using gpg-agent (and
10 installing pinentry additionally) it seems to work just as expected.
11
12 However, the non gpg-agent variant seems to be buggy since AGES, I found bug
13 reports on this from november 2004 in bugs.kde.org with not just a single
14 person being complaining - however.
15
16 Regards,
17 Christian Parpart.

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