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KMail digital signing is not working

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cgriffin
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KMail digital signing is not working

Sun May 29, 2011 12:24 am
I don't know if anyone here has experience with Gpg encryption in KMail. It looks like I can successfully encrypt messages, but it will not allow me to digitally sign them. When I goes to sign the message before sending, I see an error that says: "Signing failed, Bad Passphrase". Yet it never asked me for my passphrase...?

I did some searching on this, but none of the suggestions have helped. Any pointers appreciated

This works out of the box in Thunderbird/Enigmail. I'm starting to think KMail just ain't worth the hassle, which is a shame because I like the direction things are going in with Akonadi desktop integration and syncing with Google tools.

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Yes, I know that problem. You need a pinentry package installed. Install pinentry* - you only need one of the pinentry applications, actually, but installing both the qt and gtk variants will save you problems, IMO.


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annew wrote:Yes, I know that problem. You need a pinentry package installed. Install pinentry* - you only need one of the pinentry applications, actually, but installing both the qt and gtk variants will save you problems, IMO.


Thanks, this combined with "use-agent" fixed my problem.
I do like KMail, although I wish there were more ways to customize look & feel...


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