Re: [Evolution] Evolution does not decrypt PGP emails

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

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


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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA