signing mails with MUA mutt fails

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, December 23, 2015 a las 08:40:24PM +0100, Werner Koch escribió:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:54, guru at unixarea.de said:
> 
> > To sign mails one configure in the MUA the command in the following
> > form:
> 
> You should put
> 
>   set crypt_use_gpgme
> 
> into your ~/.muttrc to use the modern (ie. from ~2003) version of Mutt's
> crypto layer. it works much better that the bunch of configured commands.
> 
> > gpg2 --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --sign --detach-sign --textmode -u %a %f
> 
> --passphrase-fd 0
> 
> does not work with gpg2 (since 2.1) because the gpg-agent is responsible
> for the private keys and the passphrase to protect them.  If you are
> using an xterm the GUI Pinentry pops up from the background (controlled
> by the existence of the DISPLAY envvar).  If you are using a plain tty,
> either the curses pinentry or the dump tty only pinentry can be used.
> The curses pinentry is used part of the GUI pinentry and used if DISPLAY
> is not set.  Take care to set the GPG_TTY envvar (man gpg-agent).
> ...

As I said, it works very well; only pinentry is not popping up as an X
application (which I do not want either); a ps shows:

$ ps ax | egrep 'gnu|pin|mutt'
2374  -  Ss    0:00,01 gpg-agent --homedir /home/guru/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon
2392  -  S     0:00,03 pinentry --display :0 (pinentry-tty)
2394  1  S+    0:00,00 egrep gnu|pin|mutt
2354  3  S+    0:00,23 mutt

and of course, I have DISPLAY=:0 in my env;

I only wanted to mention this for the records; for me it is fine;

	matthias

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