The man page of gpg2 says: "gpg2 always requires the agent." You cannot turn it off.
I had similar problems, but even worse, because enigmail rejected to sign/decrypt at all. In the logs it seemed that without asking at all enigmail though a wrong passphrase was entered. When I switched to gpg2, and the error message was: "gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry". So I installed Seahorse as an altervative to gnupg-agent and removed gnupg-agent. But gpg2 refused to work with it, although seahorse automatically edited the gpg.conf. So I switched back to gpg (version 1) and everything was fine. sandoz -- Enigmail does not cache passphrase anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156561 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
