[Enigmail] enigmail and pgp-agent

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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arno wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a pgp-agent running on my computer. But I'd like not use 
> pgp-agent in thunderbird.
> 
> So I left preference extensions.enigmail.useGpgAgent to false.
> But I cannot send signed mails anymore (Enigmail does not prompt me for 
> my passphrase, but I still get the error "bad passphrase")
> 
> In Enigmail.prototype.useGpgAgent, there is:
> try {
>     useAgent= (this.gpgAgentInfo.envStr.length>0 || this.prefBranch.getBoolPref("useGpgAgent"));
> }
> 
> 
> So it looks like enigmail tries to use gpg-agent if there is an agent 
> running *or* if useGpgAgent is true. I think it's a bug (it should be 
> *and*, but I'm not totally sure (may be there is something I 
> misunderstood in Enigmail).
> 
> Anyway, I changed those lines to:
> 
> try { 
>     useAgent= (this.gpgAgentInfo.envStr.length>0 && this.prefBranch.getBoolPref("useGpgAgent"));
> }   
> 
> and it suits my needs.

That's actually a feature, not a bug (i.e. it is intended like this).
Latest if you want to use gpg2, gpg-agent will be mandatory (required by
gpg2). If you don't want gpg-agent to be used, then I'd suggest you
unset GPG_AGENT_INFO before starting thunderbird.

- -Patrick
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