gnupg-agent not working...

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Tue Jun 6 06:59:47 CEST 2006


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Zach Himsel wrote:
> I am using Thunderbird with the Enigmail extension. It gets annoying
> to me to have to enter in my password every time I want to send a
> signed (every email) or encrypted (only some) email. Sure, it saves
> it for 5 minutes idle time, but it's not like someone is going to go
> on my computer and send emails signed by me as it is a private
> computer which only I have access to. In the past I have used the
> gnupg-agent to not have to enter my password and it worked, but now
> it doesn't. I do not know why. I have GnuPG 1.4.3 under Windows XP
> (I have it for SUSE 10.0 also, but I haven't tried it on that
> machine yet.).  Thunderbird is 1.5.0.4 and Enigmail is 0.94.0.

I got the impression from this thread a few months ago that getting
the agent working in windows was a bit difficult:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2006-January/022635.html

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