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[Coolcat]

For some reason Enigmail does not cache my passphrase. When sending an signed mail I have to enter the passphrase twice. When browsing my mails I have to enter my passphrase each time I click an encrypted mail.

I'm not sure when the problem occurred. Possibly since I updated to TB 2.0.0.14, possibly when I upgraded from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9 Linux.

I had this problem with Enigmail 0.96a. I tried now a downgrade to Enigmail 0.95.6, but that didn't help.

thanks in advance,
Coolcat

[Coolcat]

Tried nightly build 0.96a.0+(2008-06-02), does not help either.

[patrick]

Could you please copy&paste the output in the OpenPGP console?

[Coolcat]

This is the complete output when starting TB, receiving new mails, and send one signed mail to one of my other email addresses. I'm not sure where this "--use-agent" comes from...."use gpg-agent for passphrases" is disabled in my options.

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Initializing Enigmail service ...
EnigmailAgentPath=/usr/bin/gpg

enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --version --version --batch --no-tty --charset utf8
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Unterstützte Verfahren:
Öff.Schlüssel: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Verschlü.: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Komprimierung: nicht komprimiert, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2


enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -t --clears
ign -u 0xA81E15E0 --use-agent


enigmail> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --digest-al
go sha1 -s -b -a -t -u 0xA81E15E0 --use-agent

[Jon]

I had the same problem, but i found out how to solve it!

System:
Ubuntu 8.04
Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14
Enigmail version 0.95.0

The problem was in my Password and Encryption settings, where the PGP passphrases was set to 'never remember passphrases' which i changed to 'remember passphrases for 20mins'. It seems to have overridden the setting specified in enigmail/thunderbird.

this is where the setting can be found here:
system>preferences>encryption and keyrings> the 'PGP passphrases' tab

I hope this solves your problem as well comrade!

[Coolcat]

Thanks, but this has no effect for me, even if I enable "use gpg-agent for passphrases" in Enigmail settings.

[Coolcat]

Ok, it works now...I'm not sure why.

After enabling "use gpg-agent for passphrases" first there was no effect. After a system reboot, I could not send signed mails anymore, because I got a "bad passpharse" error. Therefore I disabled "use gpg-agent for passphrases" again. Now, a reboot later it's working.

BUT: Enigmail does use the system keymanager (Gnome) to remember the key, thats ok, but since "use gpg-agent for passphrases" is disabled, this is really strange...

[Coolcat]

Ok, "Seahorse" was the problem. "Seahorse" seems to a be single gigantic bug....

I removed Seahorse and Enigmail does work like charm again.

[checkers]

I had the same problem, using thunderbird & enigmail on Ubuntu 8.04. I solved it by doing this:
System -> Preferences -> Encryption & Keyrings -> PGP Passphrases
I set the radio button there to 'Always remember the passphrases whenever logged in', and also enabled 'show icon in status area when passphrases are in memory'

[azrael]

There's a bug filed about it in Ubuntu and Gnome:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ ... bug/246364
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552086