On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:35:17 +0100 Richard Riley <[email protected]> wrote:
RR> I just wonder how many of you were using pgp and something like RR> gupg-agent? RR> I was having terrible connection problems for ages with a set up like RR> this: RR> ,---- RR> | (require 'auth-source) RR> | (require 'epa-file) RR> | (setq epa-file-cache-passphrase-for-symmetric-encryption t) ;;VERY Important RR> | (if (file-exists-p "~/.authinfo") RR> | (setq auth-sources '((:source "~/.authinfo" :host t :protocol t))) RR> | (setq auth-sources '((:source "~/.authinfo.gpg" :host t :protocol t)))) RR> | (setq RR> | mml2015-encrypt-to-self t RR> | mml2015-cache-passphrase t RR> | mml2015-passphrase-cache-expiry 60000 RR> | mml2015-verbose t) RR> `---- RR> When using the .gpg, hard to pinpoint but constant refusals to connect RR> to a server (nntp) when doing a refresh or even starting Gnus for the first RR> time. Often quitting gnus and then restarting fixed it. I know the RR> default above is .authinfo as that is my set up now (I just recreated RR> the .authinfo from the .gpg file) and all connection issues vanished. RR> Is anyone else here using the epa stuff with more success? Can you share RR> your setup? I would love to use the (chmodded) .authinfo and replace RR> with a .gpg but it doesn't seem very stable with my set up above. RR> I know the agent was running fine. I don't use the GnuPG agent, I just cache the passphrase locally. It works perfectly for me with heavy daily usage. Can you try that (set GPG_AGENT_INFO=none) and see if it works for you? Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
