Am 27.02.2016 um 10:32 schrieb Patrick Brunschwig:
> 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
>
Added that line and rebooted - and now passphrase caching works! Thanks
a lot.
 -Mike

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