Hi list,

Merry Christmas to all of you :-)

Hi Jean-David,

> When I try to set up enigmail to sign my e-mails to myself, it does not do it.

"sign TO myself" doesn't suit: you may "sign" (with one of your keys) and you
may "encrypt to" someone else's key(s) (including your own key(s)). Is your
issue with signing or with encrypting?

http://www.enigmail.net/documentation/advanced.php#sending

You have "Add my own key to receipients list" enabled, do you? That way you
make sure that all messages you send encryptedly stay readable for yourself.

> (I have not tried sending to others yet.)

You may send an encrypted test message to me.

> I can check the box manually to sign and to encrypt, and then it works just
> fine. But it will not remember my pass-phrase.

Different story. For ENcryption, no passphrase is required. For signing, the
passphrase of the (hopefully protected) private key is required. For DEcrypting
the passphrase of the private key that the message is decrypted to is required.

GnuPG 2.0 / gpg-agent caches passphrases for signing separately from those for
decryption (which IS a good idea). So If you start afresh, sign and encrypt a
message (sign with and encrypt just to your own key "A"), upon opening that same
message, you get prompted for the passphrase for DEcryption for "A". That is as
it is designed to be. Whether and how long these passphrases shall be cached by
gpg-agend is set in gpg-agent.conf in your GnuPG profile directory, see

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Agent-Options.html
(search for "cache" within)

Olav
-- 
The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications

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