Invalid passphrase

[Neil Williams]

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On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 11:07 pm, John Aldrich wrote:
> No, I can't, I don't think. Because for some strange reason, it refuses to
> recongize my passphrase that way. The other way, it says "no passphrase"

Do you get a command line prompt, a dialog box or just an error?
1. Command prompt (with use-agent commented out) - Good.
2. dialog box (with use-agent in) - ordinary box -> scope problem, special =
box=20
=2D> Good.
3. With passphrase caching OFF: error message with NO prompt or chance to p=
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in the passphrase: This is down to an error in the config, often of=20
gpg-agent.conf - check the KMail HOWTO.
http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html

4. With passphrase caching ON : error message with no prompt etc. -> that's=
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the expected behaviour if the variable is out of scope.

> even though I disabled caching the passphrase for signing.

Please confirm that you have checked out the scope problem fully.

Have you done the eval command and started kmail from the same terminal?

I keep talking about this (simple) step but no-one seems to confirm that th=
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have actually done it and still found errors. It truly is required if you a=
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going to understand what is actually going wrong. So, does it work when you=
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issue:
$ eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)"
$ kmail


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Neil Williams
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