Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@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 14:53:58
Message-Id: 200509201647.48220.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] kmail, gpg, can't display encrypted mail (bad passphrase) by Christian Parpart
1 On Tuesday 20 September 2005 07:14, Christian Parpart wrote:
2 > On Monday 19 September 2005 14:57, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > On Monday 19 September 2005 14:16, Christian Parpart wrote:
4 > > > The question is: why does kmail not ask me for a passphrase when no
5 > > > gpg-agent is available anyway?
6 > >
7 > > Mine does, with a big fat warning (this morning something went wrong)
8 > > to the manual to get it working better. I've got 3.4.2-r1.
9 >
10 > Well, I didn't get it working natively, but when using gpg-agent (and
11 > installing pinentry additionally) it seems to work just as expected.
12 >
13 > However, the non gpg-agent variant seems to be buggy since AGES, I
14 > found bug reports on this from november 2004 in bugs.kde.org with not
15 > just a single person being complaining - however.
16
17 Yeah, pinentry is kindof required. Perhaps it should be included as a
18 dependency somewhere.
19
20 Paul
21
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23 Paul de Vrieze
24 Gentoo Developer
25 Mail: pauldv@g.o
26 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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