Re: [Evolution] Evolution does not decrypt PGP emails

[huw <huw synapticsilence net>]

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 14:41 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 08:42 +0100, huw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 16:34 +0100, huw wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > > I've just started using Evolution.  I can send emails encrypted (and
> > > signed) just fine, but when my friend sends me emails encrypted with
> > > PGP they are not decrypted by Evolution.  I get the dialogue asking
> > > for my passphrase, which I duly enter, then the email displays in an
> > > encrypted format anyway.  Any ideas?
> > > I know it isn't a problem with my GPG setup, as it was working in
> > > Kmail2 (which I've just switched from) and I can copy the encrypted
> > > text to a text file and decrypt it in a console.  The problem surely
> > > lies within Evolution.
> > Some more info which may help.  Someone on the Sabayon forum is
> > helping me to troubleshoot this.  He's asked whether gpg-agent is
> > running.  If I run the command myself it insists it's running and
> > available, however I cannot find any instance of it using the ps
> > command, and I cannot find the gpg-agent.conf file referenced in its
> > man page.  Could this be the problem?
>
> Possibly, you do not see something like -
>
> /usr/bin/gpg-agent --sh --daemon
> --write-env-file /home/awilliam/.gnupg/agent.info /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>
> which i have in my task list, assuming it was created by
>
> /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session /usr/bin/gpg-agent
> --sh --daemon
> --write-env-file /home/awilliam/.gnupg/agent.info /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Hi Adam

I've gone to great lengths (long story) to install an entirely different
distro - OpenSuse in this instance - to start all over again, and
Evolution is still not decrypting my emails despite asking for my
passphrase.  I would be enormously grateful for any help you or anyone
else can provide.

In reply to your message, the output of...

ps -ef | grep agent

...finds nothing.  Where do I start?

Kind regards,
Huw