On tor, 2011-06-02 at 18:44 +0200, Philippe Latu wrote: > Hello, > > Le jeudi 2 juin 2011, vous avez écrit : > > On tor, 2011-05-12 at 22:08 +0200, Philippe Latu wrote: > > > The following symlink should be added during package installation to fit > > > kmail needs. > > > Without it, the mail client sends a "bad passphrase" error message > > > without prompting anything. > > > > > > ln -s /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 /usr/bin/pinentry-qt > > > > > > Message signing works perfectly when this symlink exists. > > > > Why would kmail call pinentry directly, or hardcode the use of > > pinentry-qt? > > I browsed kmail configuration parameters and pinentry is not mentionned. > The only tool specified in the message signing parameters is OpenPGP/gpg. > > I don't know if another kde tool use pinentry. KDEWallet doesn't for instance. > > The only thing I am sure of is that this link is necessary when kmail has to > sign a message like this one ...
The way this normally works is that kmail calls gpg, gpg calls gpg-agent, gpg-agent calls pinentry, which is an alternative pointing to /usr/bin/pinentry-something. If that doesn't work, you either have something wrong configured for pinentry-program in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, which would be a user error, or the alternative points to something wrong, which could be a user or a packaging error. In any case, I think the original assertion that kmail needs pinentry-qt specifically is wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
