Re: [Evolution] Stop Evolution Automatically Asking to Decrypt Messages

[normsmail posteo net]

I have Evolution installed on Linuxmint, I cannot find
/org/gnome/evolution-data-server/camel-gpg-binary?

On Mon, 2022-10-03 at 04:26 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> On 2022-10-01 at 14:21 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Not that I can see. GPG is such a fundamental aspect of lots of
> > encryption on Linux that my system won't even let me remove it and
> > renaming the binary would break lots of things.
> >
> > One thing that comes to mind is that there is a dconf key
> >
> >  
> >
> > you could try setting that to something like /bin/false:
> >
> >   dconf write /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/camel-gpg-binary
> > "'/bin/false'"
> >
> > Hopefully then it will try to run the program to decrypt the
> > message
> > and fail. 
>
> This should do.
> The password prompt does not come from evolution, but from gpg.
>
> When confronted with a PGP block, evolution will give it to gpg
> (camel-
> gpg-binary) to handle it. As this is an encrypted message, gpg will
> ask
> gpg-agent to decrypt it. In this case, it has the private key but it
> does not have the passphrase (if the gpg key had no passphrase or it
> was already provided in this session, it would be automatically
> decrypted), so it launches your pinentry to prompt for the passphrase
> to unlock this key.
>
> By setting /bin/false as your camel-gpg-binary, you effectively
> disable
> all gpg in your evolution.
>
> However, since you have a PGP key, and you are receiving PGP-
> encrypted
> mails, I think you would actually benefit from evolution being able
> to
> show your decrypted emails sometimes. So we would need to know to
> what
> is the actual problem (you don't want to type the passphrase every
> time
> you boot your computer? gpg-agent forgets the passphrase too early?).
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
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