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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    Re: Kmail plugin progress
From:       "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder () fortytwo ! ch>
Date:       2003-07-21 8:36:23
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On Sunday 20 July 2003 02:14, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 12:40 am, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 July 2003 04:04 pm, Robin Lynn Frank  wrote:
> > This is a follow-up.  The third email I sent required a poassphrase.  I
> > wonder what this one will do? :-(
>
> Kmail doesn't cache the passphrase forever, or even until you close the
> app. It waits for a certain amount of idle time and then drops the cached
> passphrase. Even if you send a lot of different emails as a series, it will
> eventually ask to confirm the passphrase again.

kmail doesn't do anything with the passphrase, if you use the GPG plugin. 
everything is handled by the gpg-agent. 

kmail spawns cryptplugin calls gpg-agent spawns pinentry-{curses|qt|gtk}. The 
passphrase is cached by gpg-agent, and gpg-agent can be configured in 
~/.gnupg/agent.conf IIRC.

HTH
-- vbi

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