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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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kmail and gpg-agent

as we have now gpg-agent in the repos, i just wondered why kmail do not work with it

i did everything from http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html

but still kmail is opening the dialogue to type the passphrase and kgpg is complaining now this:

i'm starting gpg-agent from ~/.xinitrc with this line:

gpg-agent --daemon

and

[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ ps -e | grep gpg-agent
 6628 ?        00:00:00 gpg-agent

thanx in advance for any help

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,323

Re: kmail and gpg-agent

strange you also did that pinentry stuff?
i didn't test the funcionality of gpg
can someone do some reasearch on that
kde 3.3.2 is round the corner would be great if it works till then

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: kmail and gpg-agent

strange you also did that pinentry stuff?

i have

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt

in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, if you mean that ... maybe there is some other things to do?

i didn't test the funcionality of gpg
can someone do some reasearch on that
kde 3.3.2 is round the corner would be great if it works till then

yea, that would be nice ...

well, without the gpg-agent (the classical way), gpg works fine, but it is not really cool having to type a long passphrase each time you send a signed email (especially, if you write lots of emails to lots of different peoples /day)

here the dialogue i get always when i want to send an email (in kde 3.3.x the gpg-agent lines are new, but the dialogue itself is old (since 3.1.4 working fine the classical way))

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allanon

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From: Enschede, The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-02-10

Posts: 52

Re: kmail and gpg-agent

I'm also hoping someone will fix this : Tried for a while, tried compiling packages myself too, but same problem.

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: kmail and gpg-agent

i tried to look at things ... it seems, as if gpg-agent is exporting some variables, but as i start it in startx, these variables are not seen by kgpg --- kgpg/kmail is not checking, if a gpg-agent process runs, but if a variable is exported (if i understood the code right), and now we must only find a way to start gpg-agent the right way, so that kgpg/kmail recognizes it running --- aaaa, it drives me krazy

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allanon

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From: Enschede, The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-02-10

Posts: 52

Re: kmail and gpg-agent

Time for a bump.

It seems to be working in the kde(-pim) pre-release packages from tpowa now, hooray   Thanks, tpowa.

I know how sucky it is to FINALLY get GPG up & running, and no-one to test with, so feel free to e-mail me.

Public key is on http://allanon.nvg.org - the e-mail address is almost the same as the domain name, just replace the first dot with "@" (uhm, and remove http://)