Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a simple pinentry-emacs script, that uses emacsclient to ask inside emacs for the password.
Probably not secure, but I'm the only one accessing this host. https://github.com/ecraven/pinentry-emacs Finally things seem to work reliably :) Greetings, Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 274 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20130710/74dbbfd7/attachment.pgp>