[MlMt] GPG and Yubikey neo (smartcard)

[Philip Paeps]

On 2015-08-31 15:38:19 (+0200), Benny Kjær Nielsen 
<mailinglist at freron.com> wrote:

> On 29 Aug 2015, at 4:33, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote:
>
>> I've flipped over to using a yubico neo usb 'smartcard' as my GPG 
>> keychain.  It works fine, but there's a problem with MailMate's GPG 
>> support.  Everytime the neo gets asked to sign/encrypt a message, I 
>> get prompted for a PIN (that's just the way it works).  The problem 
>> is that it seems as if MailMate asks for a signature/encrypt multiple 
>> times during composition (maybe up to 4-5 times in my experience - 
>> maybe when the draft gets saved?).  That gets disruptive to keep 
>> getting pin pops.  Any way to get that sign/encrypt function to only 
>> fire on send?
>
> Not currently. If it was possible, would you be ok entering the pin 
> for every email you send? Still seems a bit annoying even though it is 
> much better than the current situation. (MailMate would have to call 
> `gpg2` at least once per email.)

Would it be possible for MailMate to rely on gpg-agent if it's running?  
The GPGTools package for MacOS X enables the agent at startup and the 
GPGMail bundle for Mail.app appears to use it nicely.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information