On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Claus Assmann <mutt+us...@esmtp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016, Xu Wang wrote: > >> that in order to decrypt a message I need to put my passphrase in. But >> for signing, I do not need to. Is this normal? It is the same > > Are you replying to an encrypted mail? Then the pass phrase is > most likely still cached. See the fine manual, look for pgp_timeout > or something like that.
Dear mutt-users, I found what causes this behavior. It is because of the GNOME keyring. Somehow I have configured it to remember when encrypting but not when signing. Thank you to people for their kind responses. Kind regards, Xu