kmail doesn t sign/encrypt e-mails, broken pipe

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:24:58PM +0100, Erik Wasser wrote:
> I read "Using OpenPGP and PGP/MIME with KMail >= 1.7"[1] and installed a 
> few libraries on my Gentoo System:
> 
> dev-libs/pth-1.4.0
> dev-libs/libksba-0.9.8
> dev-libs/libassuan-0.6.6
> app-crypt/gnupg-1.9.10
> app-crypt/gpgme-0.9.0-r1
> dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.1.94
> 
> The installation is so great that I can do the 
> 
> > echo "test" | gpg -ase -r 0xDEADBEEF | gpg

Whoch version of Kmail are you trying CVS from this week?

> 'trick' and the 'eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)"' is working fine. I can 
> read decrypted mails but I can't encrypting mails in kmail and that is 
> bad. When I try to send a decrypted mail I enter the pass phrase and 
> everything seems okay but when kmail really sends the mail I got an 
> error box with 
> 
> "Encyption failed: Brocken pipe"
> 
> What is the error here? What can I test so solve this problem? Any 
> ideas? Is this a plugin error or an kmail error?

A) Start the log watcher from extras and enable debugging.
B) Try to decrypt the email on the command line.
(More difficult, you need to save the encrypted part in the right
format.)


> I read also the bug reports[2][3] in kmail but I unsure what is the 
> problem here.
> 
> [1] http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html
> [2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85009
> [3] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83086
> 
> -- 
> So long... Fuzz
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