On Monday 07 February 2005 22:50, Christian Mueller wrote:
> 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.
Thanks *very* much for this - all seems to be working now :-)
Steve
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