On Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:55:47 -0500 "Robert B. Carleton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to setup S/MIME on claws-mail under Xfce on the OpenBSD 7.9 > release. Though Xfce is starting gpg-agent when I login via xenodm, > the "Use gpg-agent to manage passwords" is grayed out in the > "Passphrase" portion of the GPG plugin preferences. The "Store > passphrase in memory" is not checked. The GnuPG executable path set to > /usr/local/bin/gpg. The PGP/Core, and S/MIME plugins are loaded. > > The side effect of this is that I can not use pinentry-qt5 to provide > a GUI for entering passphrases. It doesn't totally break things. I can > still run claws-mail from the command line to use the curses pinentry > dialogs. That works. > > Does anyone have suggestions for my configuration, or perhaps a way to > get more descriptive errors? > > TIA, > > --Bruce > I have this partially figured out. The GPG_AGENT_INFO variable isn't being set in the environment invoking claws-mail. I'm trying to figure out a good place to introduce it.
