Robert J. Hansen wrote on 02.01.2020 16:26: >> Using Enigmail for some time now - thanks for your work! > > Patrick deserves all the credit; the rest of us just try to help him > with the load of questions. :) Which is hard, given that he usually > beats us to answering them! > >> As I understand, the GPG key for a specific email address is saved >> inside the keyring, in my case the GNOME keyring. To decrypt an >> encrypted email Enigmail needs to have access to that keyring. Which >> means, the GNOME keyring needs to be unlocked so that Enigmail can >> access it and read the according GPG key. > > Nope. :) > > GnuPG is the one popping up those passphrase dialogs, not Enigmail. > We've got nothing to do with it. We never touch your keyring. Although > I think your feature request is pretty reasonable, it's also beyond > Enigmail's scope. Perhaps ask on GnuPG-Users, or on a GNOME mailing list?
The above said, I assume that what happens is this: if GNOME keyring is already running when gpg requires a password, it will connect to the running instance of GNOME keyring and get the password from there. If GNOME keyring is not already running, then gpg will need to start a "keyring" tool on its own. And the only tool known to gpg is gpg-agent. -Patrick
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