Kpgp problem (here's the patch)

[Michael Häckel]

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On Friday 30 August 2002 12:34, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:55:07PM +1000, Don Sanders wrote:
> > OTOH I haven't been able to get the aegypten plugin to work,
>
> Can you report more detailed what the problems are?
> The gpa-dev list http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gpa-dev
> might be a good place if you had problems building and configuring
> the crypto backend.
>
> Hint on how to test S/MIME in KMail can be found on the following page:
> http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/development.en.html

I consider the way to get PGP/MIME or S/MIME working still far too
complicated. Currently not even the developers manage to get it working
without help, so how shall the users manage that after KDE 3.1?

For example can't find it documented anywhere that it is required to start
gpg-agent before KMail and export that environment variable and the error 
message that appears is absolutely useless. This is for example one of the 
things that should work automatically. Maybe it should be simply started if 
it's not already running.

I also consider it unacceptable that it is required to enter the patch to the
plugin manually in KMail's config dialog. Yes, I know it is required for the
Aegypten project, but for all other KMail users that should work
automatically.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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