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

Erik Wasser erik.wasser at iquer.net
Mon Nov 8 12:26:42 CET 2004


On Friday 05 November 2004 17:23, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > > echo "test" | gpg -ase -r 0xDEADBEEF | gpg
>
> Whoch version of Kmail are you trying CVS from this week?

Ich don't use KMail from CVS. I'm using the version KMail 1.7 from KDE 
3.3.0. Is this version too old? I'm not very up-to-date with this 
things.

> > 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.

I set the 'debug-level' to 'guru'. I hope this is the option you mean. 
B-)

Here is the log:

gpg-agent[14631]: NOTE: this is a development version!
gpg-agent[14631]: listening on socket `/tmp/gpg-Njqs17/S.gpg-agent'
gpg-agent[14632]: handler for fd 0 started
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> OK Pleased to meet you
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- OPTION display=:0
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> OK
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- OPTION ttyname=/dev/tty
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> OK
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- OPTION ttytype=xterm
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> OK
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- OPTION lc-ctype=de_DE at euro
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> OK
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- OPTION lc-messages=de_DE at euro
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> OK
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- GET_PASSPHRASE 
59B1C97855BA33FDB0540D6E63DDC9B6247DB795 X X 
You+need+a+passphrase+to+unlock+the+secret+key+for+user:
%0A"Erik+Wasser+<erik.wasser at iquer.de>"%0A1024-bit+DSA+key,
+ID+247DB795,+created+2001-01-05%0A
gpg-agent[14632]: DBG: agent_get_cache 
`59B1C97855BA33FDB0540D6E63DDC9B6247DB795'...
gpg-agent[14632]: DBG: ... miss
gpg-agent[14632]: starting a new PIN Entry
gpg-agent[14632]: DBG: connection to PIN entry established
gpg-agent[14632]: DBG: agent_put_cache 
`59B1C97855BA33FDB0540D6E63DDC9B6247DB795'
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: -> [Confidential data not shown]
gpg-agent[14632.0x8075db0] DBG: <- [EOF]
gpg-agent[14632]: handler for fd 0 terminated

I don't see any error here. B-)

> B) Try to decrypt the email on the command line.
> (More difficult, you need to save the encrypted part in the right
> format.)

Ups... Sorry! My mistake. Decryption is fine and working. Sending an  
encrypted is a problem. The logfile was created during the send process 
of kmail.

I'm very clueless. B-(((

Thanks for the help.

-- 
So long... Fuzz



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