[Enigmail] Telling Enigmail to remember passwords?

[Charly Avital]

Michael J Gruber wrote the following on 2/17/09 4:35 AM:
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> John,
> 
> gpg-agent isn't really about making gpg2 features available, although it
> is part of gpg2 now.
> 
> The main point is that gpg-agent is small and well-audited. OTOH, having
> Enigmail cache the passphrase means having Thunderbird cache the
> passphrase. So, from a security perspective gpg-agent is the much better
> approach, rather than being "totally unnecessary". May I suggest you
> recheck whether your strong wording is really an appropriate match to my
> "Also, you might want to..."?
> 
> Besides, gpg-agent keeps the passphrase across restarts of TB and
> provides it to other clients as well, although this might not matter to
> the OP.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

Thank you Michael, you have taken the words out of my keyboard. I use
currently gpg-agent with gpg 2.0.10.

Best regards,
Charly
MacOS 10.5.6 - MacBook Intel C2Duo "Aluminum Late 2008"- GnuPG 1.4.9 -
GPG2 2.0.10 - Testing Shredder 3.0b2pre+Enigmail version 0.96a
(20090215-1226)- Apple's Mail+GPGMail 1.2.0 (v56), PGP key: 0xA57A8EFA