Kmail plugin progress

Mon Jul 21 17:59:38 2003

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On Sunday 20 July 2003 02:14, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 20 Jul 2003 12:40 am, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 July 2003 04:04 pm, Robin Lynn Frank  wrote:
> > This is a follow-up.  The third email I sent required a poassphrase.  I
> > wonder what this one will do? :-(
>
> Kmail doesn't cache the passphrase forever, or even until you close the
> app. It waits for a certain amount of idle time and then drops the cached
> passphrase. Even if you send a lot of different emails as a series, it wi=
ll
> eventually ask to confirm the passphrase again.

kmail doesn't do anything with the passphrase, if you use the GPG plugin.=20
everything is handled by the gpg-agent.=20

kmail spawns cryptplugin calls gpg-agent spawns pinentry-{curses|qt|gtk}. T=
he=20
passphrase is cached by gpg-agent, and gpg-agent can be configured in=20
~/.gnupg/agent.conf IIRC.

HTH
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