On 27.02.16 10:24, Mike Grunweg wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> after disabling the gpg-agent part of the Gnome keyring, I can send
> encrypted emails again. (Thanks again for the tips, btw.)
> However, passphrase caching seems to not work at all. According to the
> Enigmail wiki [1], since GnuPG version 2 passphrase handling is done by
> an external programme, like gpg-agent, which I have installed. Some
> googling yields e.g. [2], suggesting that I add "use-agent" to the GnuPG
> configuration file, but according to the gpg2 man page, this option has
> no effect any more. And I cannot find any direct Enigmail option
> controlling the use of gpg-agent either, in accordance with [1].
> I am using GNOME and thus have both gnome-keyring and seahorse
> installed. I do get alerted that this is why GnuPG is ignoring any
> changes of the set expiration time for key passphrases. However, I did
> disable the gpg-agent part of gnome-keyring (to fix the first problem),
> and uninstalling seahorse doesn't fix this problem.
> Any ideas on how to make passphrase caching work again? The debugging
> logs don't seem to contain anything useful this time.

Please add the following line to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

  use-standard-socket

Let me know if this works - if yes, I'll add an FAQ entry for it.


-Patrick


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