[gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

[gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hello,

I've been using Mutt with GnuPG for years on various distributions. I recently
set up Gentoo, and I'm having some problems with the integration. 

Initially I couldn't get any of my encrypted files open, as gpg said it
couldn't find my secret key. I noticed the new gpg-agent material in the
documentation, and once I set that up, my basic gpg commands started working
again. I'm not sure why gpg-agent is required, maybe it fixes some other
configuration issue. 

Now I run gpg-agent in my .xsession, with the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable being
inherited by Mutt, but signing email doesn't work, as gpg says there's no
secret key available. 

Obviously something has changed in the latest version, and my configuration
just hasn't caught up yet. Does anyone else have this set up and working?

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Michael,
on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:39:59AM -0500, you wrote:
> Now I run gpg-agent in my .xsession, with the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable being
> inherited by Mutt, but signing email doesn't work, as gpg says there's no
> secret key available. 

Do you have "set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes" in your muttrc? Works fine here,
though I don't remember what I changed in the last year when gpg started
to need the agent, if anything. If that's not it, I can just mail you my
config as well...

cheers,
	Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

[Michael P. Soulier]

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On 12/11/08 Matthias Bethke said:

> Do you have "set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes" in your muttrc? Works fine here,
> though I don't remember what I changed in the last year when gpg started
> to need the agent, if anything. If that's not it, I can just mail you my
> config as well...

Hmm. If I use that option, it doesn't prompt me for my passphrase, presumably
expecting the agent to have it already. 

Ah, found it. I cut and pasted a big section of pgp variables and I missed the
pgpsignas option. It works now, without the pgpusegpgagent option, which
prompts me for my passphrase...

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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