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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: problem with GPG
From:       "Carsten Burghardt" <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-09-14 7:25:14
Message-ID: 1350.149.235.163.129.1126682714.squirrel () h1979 ! serverkompetenz ! net
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Marc Saintenoy sagte:
> On 2005-09-13 16:12, you wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 September 2005 21:23, Marc wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have a problem with GPG.
>> >
>> > When I receive an email encrypted in my inbox and that I want to see
>> it I
>> > have the message:
>> > Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
>> > Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data.
>> > Error: Bad passphrase
>> >
>> > The problem it's that it does not ask me the password for decrypt the
>> > mail. Can you how configure Kmail for this problem?
>>
>> do you have a pinentry program specified in your gpg.conf file? and if
>> so
>> do you have that pinentry program actually installed on your system?
>>
>> rgds
>>
>> Matt
>
> I didn't have the program pinentry on my system.
> Thus I installed pinentry, but that doesn't change.
> Here lines in gpg.conf:
>
> # Passphrase agent
> #
> # We support the old experimental passphrase agent protocol as well as
> # the new Assuan based one (currently available in the "newpg" package
> # at ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/aegypten/).  To make use of the agent,
> # you have to run an agent as daemon and use the option
> #
> # use-agent
> #
> # which tries to use the agent but will fallback to the regular mode
> # if there is a problem connecting to the agent.  The normal way to
> # locate the agent is by looking at the environment variable
> # GPG_AGENT_INFO which should have been set during gpg-agent startup.
> # In certain situations the use of this variable is not possible, thus
> # the option
> #
> # --gpg-agent-info=<path>:<pid>:1
> #
> # may be used to override it.
>
> Do I have to change something?
> And what?

Did you read http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html ?
That should help.


Carsten

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