[Enigmail] and gpg-agent (was: enigmail and pgp-agent)

[Charly Avital]

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Patrick Brunschwig wrote the following on 8/9/07 2:41 PM:
> arno wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a pgp-agent running on my computer. But I'd like not use 
>> pgp-agent in thunderbird.
> 
>> So I left preference extensions.enigmail.useGpgAgent to false.
>> But I cannot send signed mails anymore (Enigmail does not prompt me for 
>> my passphrase, but I still get the error "bad passphrase")
> 
>> In Enigmail.prototype.useGpgAgent, there is:
>> try {
>>     useAgent= (this.gpgAgentInfo.envStr.length>0 || this.prefBranch.getBoolPref("useGpgAgent"));
>> }
> 
> 
>> So it looks like enigmail tries to use gpg-agent if there is an agent 
>> running *or* if useGpgAgent is true. I think it's a bug (it should be 
>> *and*, but I'm not totally sure (may be there is something I 
>> misunderstood in Enigmail).
> 
>> Anyway, I changed those lines to:
> 
>> try { 
>>     useAgent= (this.gpgAgentInfo.envStr.length>0 && this.prefBranch.getBoolPref("useGpgAgent"));
>> }   
> 
>> and it suits my needs.
> 
> That's actually a feature, not a bug (i.e. it is intended like this).
> Latest if you want to use gpg2, gpg-agent will be mandatory (required by
> gpg2). If you don't want gpg-agent to be used, then I'd suggest you
> unset GPG_AGENT_INFO before starting thunderbird.
> 
> -Patrick


What is the difference of the above settings, and unmarking 'Use
gpg-agent for passphrases' in OpenPGP 'Preferences>Advanced'?

Charly
running gpg2 2.0.4 and gpg-agent
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