Am Montag, 7. Februar 2005 23:30 schrieb Steve Turnbull: > Hi > > I'm running Debian SID, KDE 3.3 and Kmail 1.7.2 > > I am having problems getting KMail / Kontact to decrypt encrypted messages. I > have my keys setup successfully (if I try opening the email in Evolution it > asks for a passphrase and opens the message) > > I can get KMail to work if I run eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)" from the command > line, and then run kmail from the same command line. When Kmail starts, it > asks for a passphrase when I click on an encrypted email. > > If I just run KMail as normal from the KDE menu, it doesn't decrypt the > message properly and I get this message; > > Encrypted message (decryption not possible) > Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data. > Error: Bad passphrase > > These are the steps I've taken; > > added "deb http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ experimental smurf" to my apt > sources list and installed nupg2, gnupg-agent, dirmngr, kleopatra gpgsm. > > Followed instructions at http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-15-16-howto.html > > So, how do I get the gpg-agent to run when I startup KMail from the menu? > > Thanks > Steve Try this howto, it seems to be for KMail >= 1.7: http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html Especially the following is important: "Starting with KDE-3.3 you can add the gpg-agent command in ~/.kde/env/gpgagent.sh (the filename doesn't matter). The contents of ~/.kde/env/ is sourced by startkde. As you have noticed, the gpg-agent command must have been executed in the environment kmail is started from. The above makes sure it is, and only once per KDE session. Cheers, Christian.
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