[Enigmail] Telling Enigmail to remember passwords?

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Thu Feb 12 03:12:41 PST 2009


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Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Ringo Kamens venit, vidit, dixit 11.02.2009 02:33:
>> Wow. I can't believe I never saw that before.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ringo
>>
>> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> Ringo Kamens wrote:
>>>> Is there any way to make enigmail remember passwords longer? Maybe like
>>>> until shutdown or until I close Thunderbird? I'm on the most recent
>>>> version of Ubuntu. If I have to install another program that's fine by me.
>>> OpenPGP menu -> Preferences -> Basic tab
>>> Passphrase settings:
>>> Remember password for [ ] minutes
> 
> Also, you might want to look into using gpg-agent.

I disagree; unless One requires the 'features' of GPG2 then GPG Agent is
totally unnecessary!  Enigmail can/will cache the passphrase for  the
necessary amount of time.

JOHN 8-)
Timestamp: Thursday 12 Feb 2009, 06:12  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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