[MlMt] S/MIME and OpenPGP issues

[Thomas Kahle]

On 5 Jan 2021, at 12:23, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> Possible, but IMO that’s not really a solution. Every other mail application I have used had a method for requesting and/or storing the passphrase. It’s also stored in my keychain. Can somebody confirm if that is expected behaviour with a protected key?

I use encrypted pgp keys whose passphrases are stored in keychain and it works completely transparently.

When I switched from Thunderbird to Mailmate it just worked out of the box.  Have you configured gig-agent?  Is it running?

What’s the output of `ps -ef | grep gpg-agent` ?

Cheers,
Thomas



>
> On 5 Jan 2021, at 12:11, Alexandre Takacs wrote:
>
>> It would seems that your key I password protected and PGP is working in a batch mode not allowing it to request said pass.
>>
>> Can you try with a non protected key (as a test to validate the above) ?
>>
>> On 5 Jan 2021, at 10:56, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
>>
>>> gpg: Sorry, we are in batchmode - can't get input
>>>
>>> I have a suspicion that is caused by something in my gpg settings, but I don’t see anything obvious.
>>> Ideas?
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