Ralph Seichter wrote: > I asked about the following on the Notmuch mailing list first, and > Daniel Kahn Gillmor offered some advice, but the issue is not yet > resolved. I'm hoping for additional input from the GnuPG community. > > I use Dovecot with a Maildir-based message store, allowing me to access > my mail using various IMAP based clients. I also use Notmuch[1] with > Emacs as a MUA, and for that, I login using SSH and a terminal, which of > course means no graphics beyond Ncurses. > > [1] https://notmuchmail.org/ > > This works fine until I encounter signed or encrypted mail (GPG and/or > S/MIME). Emacs attempts to prompt me for my password, or to ask me > whether I trust signator XYZ, but crams that prompt into the last two > lines of the Emacs window, so I cannot really see what is expected of > me. > > I use gpg-agent and have tried both pinentry-tty and pinentry-curses. I > tried with and without 'allow-emacs-pinentry' in gpg-agent.conf. I tried > 'epa-pinentry-mode' with values 'nil' and 'loopback'. All this did not > resolve the issue. > > Daniel suggested "running gpg-agent in a dedicated terminal window, and > handling the gpg-agent prompts from that window". I tried to achieve > that by setting GPG_TTY to a fixed value like /dev/pts/1, and running > Emacs in /dev/pts/2. This works for a single time only. When prompting > me the next time, parts of my input are echoed on the screen, and when I > press return, the shell in pts/1 attempts to execute my pass phrase. It > looks like pinentry died halfway, so my input ends up in the shell. > > I you have suggestions about how to solve this, I'd be grateful. > > -Ralph
Does "--pinentry-mode loopback" make any difference? Is it any different to epa-pinentry-mode? cheers, raf _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
