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Bug 825

Summary:	Kmail/Kontact issue with encrypted email
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Kris <krisgamrat>
Component:	tdepim	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugwatch, darrella, kb9vqf, krisgamrat, lisi.reisz, slavek.banko
Priority:	P5
Version:	3.5.13 [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	Debian Squeeze
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Kris 2012-01-28 16:59:06 CST

I decided to send an encrypted email to myself just to test if it works. When I try to open it, it starts an endless loop of opening the dialog to ask for my passphrase -- it opens them so quickly that I can't interrupt it with click close or ALT+F4, nor will anything else respond (ALT+Tab, Kicker's taskbar, etc. don't work, only the arrow will move).

The only way to stop it and regain control of the GUI is to hit CTRL+ALT+F1, logging in as root, then killing kdm/Xorg and restarting kdm, at which point I can log back in to TDE as my normal user and resume whatever I was doing.

I was able to confirm this issue by trying it two more times (for a total of three, including the first try).

When I log in to my email via web browser, I see my encrypted message. I can't un-encrypt it since Gmail doesn't have built in support for GPG/OpenPGP, so all I can see is a long RSA-key looking string. The message was probably sent correctly, but short of configuring another mail client, I can't confirm it.

Comment 1 Kris 2012-02-07 21:23:58 CST

After further testing, I managed to get it working, but not with Kmail's passphrase box. I opened my gpg.conf file and added the "use-agent" line, then edited gpg-agent.conf to use pinentry-qt (Debians Qt3 version of pinentry). After logging out and back in,  I tried to open the encrypted email, and I get pinentry's passphrase dialog instead of Kmail's, which worked fine. I also tried it with pinentry-x11, which also works fine. I haven't tried it with pinentry-qt4 or pinentry-gtk.

I able to dual boot with another distro to test it (I hate flash drives!), so if someone using another (non-Debian) distro and post their results, that would probably help spot the problem.

Comment 2 Darrell 2013-04-13 14:51:12 CDT

Is this problem still valid?

Comment 3 Kris 2013-04-13 22:58:30 CDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this problem still valid?

Definitely yes. I am still spammed by passphrase dialogs every time I attempt to open an encrypted email.

Comment 4 Slávek Banko 2013-04-14 13:27:48 CDT

*** Bug 1193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Timothy Pearson 2013-04-28 16:46:45 CDT

This should be fixed in GIT hash 7bd54f5.

Thanks for reporting!