On Wed March 16 2005 22:09, Adeodato Sim� wrote: > Hello all, > > As you may know, KMail in Debian testing/unstable has had the severe > limitation of not being able to decrypt mail encrypted using the > PGP/MIME standard, without the help of an external program, namely > gnupg-agent. As this program was not available from Debian, indeed > only from external repositories, the situation was far from > satisfying, for users, maintainers, and upstream. This is Debian Bug > #280175 and KDE Bug #92619. > > Myself and the other members of the KDE team have repeatedly stated > that work was in progress, and asked for your patience. I'm happy to > announce that the 'gnupg-agent' package is available as of today in > Debian Sid, and hopefully soon from Debian Sarge as well. This will > make KMail fully functional in the upcoming Debian 3.1 release, which > is undoubtedly a good thing. For the sake of completeness, gpgsm has > also been uploaded, which will make the KDE certificate manager, > kleopatra, functional as well.
Am I missing something? I still can't get KMail to decrypt anything - maybe it has something to do with gpg-agent not being run in my session. I have no idea how to do this, though, as there doesn't seem to be any documentation (not even a manpage) :( > I want to thank you for your understanding during this delay, and also > to thank the people that have made this possible. I know Debian can be > slow at times, but we try not to forget the outstanding issues. > > Thanks for reading. Thanks for writing. Zack
