Kmail never prompts for key passphrase

[Guest]

Hi all,

I want to send/recieve signed and encryped email using kmail. I have installed openpgp and selected my keys under Cryptography in my default identity. I have pinentry(-qt/-qt4/-x11) installed. kgpg and gpg-agent are running.

The problem is, when I try to send a signed email message, all I get is an error saying "bad passphrase", but I never get to enter the passphrase in the first place. With all other password requests, kwallet pops up normally.

I googled around, and found that this problem has existed for some time, but I found no solutions. Does anyone here know what I should do?

Thanks for any help.

[Guest]

Re: Kmail never prompts for key passphrase

bump

[bobbysan]

Re: Kmail never prompts for key passphrase

I was having the same problem. I did a few things that seem to have worked at least for signing. But it didn't work until I rebooted (you may only have to logoff and logon).

created a file In ~/.gnupg called gpg-agent.conf and entered the line:

pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt


In ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf I uncommented the default key and entered my own key ID.
I also have uncommented "use-agent"

[bobbysan]

Re: Kmail never prompts for key passphrase

Let us know if that works.

[kosmonaut]

Re: Kmail never prompts for key passphrase

Hi!

@bobbysan:
Your suggestion did not work here.
What I did to get this pass-phrase working was, that I edited ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and put a

use-agent

in the end of that file.

BTW: There have been some files that were missing in the default kubuntu installation that I had to install too:

sudo apt-get install gnupg-agent gnupg2 pinentry-qt kgpg kleopatra

I am wondering why those files aren't installed by default :-|

Hope that I could help, with my feedback

K.