gpg-agent not working

[John W. Moore III]

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Zach Himsel wrote:
> > - gpg control packet
> > Hello,
> > 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. Thanks.

I cannot speak to the gpg-agent issue; But, Enigmail *does* allow you to
set the time it will store the passphrase.  5 minutes is the Default,
but you may change it to any number of minutes you prefer.  Look under
OpenPGP > Preferences.

One reminder; whenever you Close/Exit Thunderbird the passphrase will be
cleared.

JOHN  8-)
Timestamp: Monday 05 Jun 2006, 19:22  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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