On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:21:40 +0100
Mikael Bak <mik...@t-online.hu> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I know. This is not specific to OpenBSD at all. I just thought you guys use 
> gpg to sign and encrypt email a lot :-)
> 
> So having OpenBSD 4.6 on my old laptop and one of my favourite email clients 
> (Sylpheed - installed with pkg_add, the flavor supporting gpg), I am able to 
> sign and encrypt email nicely. Sylpheed automagically opens a dialog and I 
> can choose key and enter passphrase.
> 
> But when receiving encrypted email I am not able to decrypt.
> Sylpheed simply shows me the gpg encrypted data, and does not open dialog box 
> for entering passphrase.
> 
> I folowed this doc (I have no idea if I should have done differently):
> https://help.launchpad.net/ReadingOpenPgpMail#Sylpheed
> 
> It states that Sylpheed is unable to decode the message inline. OK. But after 
> following this guide I'm still not able to decrypt. I still do not have a 
> chance to enter my passphrase. The output from the action say "bad 
> passphrase".
> 
> So if anyone of you uses gpg together with Sylpheed and OpenBSD and got it 
> working, I'm all ears :-)
> 

Replying to myself on this one.

Seem it's been a while since I used Sylpheed. I found out that there is a new 
one called claws-mail. It has nice plugins that handles the functionality I 
need.

Thanks and sorry for the noise.
Mikael

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