GPG and Evolution

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:17, Pupeno wrote:
> Disabling the agent (commenting out the line from gpg.conf) made it
> work.
> What am I missing by not having the agent ?

Is that ssh-agent? It allows you to enter a passphrase once at the 
beginning of a session and gpg remembers it so you don't have to keep 
entering it everytime you need gpg.

It's similar to sudo remembering that you entered a valid password for 
5 minutes


> Thank you.
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:59 +0200, Pupeno wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:34 +0200, Jenda Vancura wrote:
> > > Pupeno wrote:
> > > > Hello, When trying to sign a mail with Evolution I get the
> > > > following error:
> > > >
> > > > Could not create message.
> > > >
> > > > Because "gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
> > > > gpg: writing to `-' gpg: DSA/SHA1 signature from: "D3D61A45
> > > > Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com>" ", you may need to select
> > > > different mail options.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas about what am I missing ?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Maybe you are using HTML?
> >
> > No, I am not using HTML. I never do. I re-checked just in case.
> > And this mail is being sent by the same Evolution I am trying to
> > get to work.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > --
> > Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> http://pupeno.com

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