On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:02:46 +0100, Marc Schiffbauer said: > Is it currently the case that you have to enter the passphrase for > every mail you want do de-/encrypt or sign every time? You need to start the gpg-agent before kmail, so that it can stay in the background and cache the passphrase. The the manual for details. Shalom-Salam, Werner