On Tue, 04 Apr 2017, 19:31:24 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
El 2017-04-04 a las 18:07 +0200, Manfred Hollstein escribió: ...
I don't actually have a problem with mutt+gpg; the first trouble for non-experienced users arises when they get asked for the GPG passphrase (they didn't get asked before when gnome-keyring still worked). Worse is that the standard configuration doesn't seem to actually work (at least not for me):
gpg2-2.0.24-5.5.x86_64 enigmail-1.9.5-1.4.x86_64 MozillaThunderbird-45.8.0-39.1.x86_64
(if I'm not mistaken, these are the current versions on openSUSE Leap 42.2). Whenever a Thunderbird user clicks on a GPG encrypted or signed message, it results in message popup from Enigmail describing an error in the communication between GnuPG and gpg-agent. IIRC, long ago I had a similar problem on TW, but there we switched to gpg2-2.1 at some time, which is when the problem went away.
Yes, it happens on Gnome and XFCE, because there is no agent (mentioned on the release notes).
yeah, initially the release notes didn't even mention it; instead of fixing the issue itself, it got added to the releases notes afterwars.
I had to install it and make sure it starts.
Which "agent" are you talking about? If you mean "gpg-agent" it is installed by default and it's even started by default according to /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession (which is still used by "lightdm" afaik). At least, I have "gpg-agent" running according to "ps -fHu manfred" and the relevant environment variable ("GPG_AGENT_INFO") is also defined.
Or disable the agent in the gnu gpg config file.
It works OK with both Pine and Thunderbird, on leap 42.2
If the "agent" is disabled, you have to type your passphrase every once in a while (in Thunderbird+enigmail), right? Dunno about Pine, but I assume it works similar to Mutt which I use here - but it only works with my own private versions. With the default setup/versions, pinentry pops up every time the passphrase is needed.
Cheers Carlos E. R.
Cheers. l8er manfred