[Enigmail] Enigmail fails with GnuPG2 + OpenPGP Card

Stefan Xenon stefanxe at gmx.net
Mon Jul 27 06:51:12 PDT 2009


Also I experience that the Enigmail option, how long to store the
passphrase, does not work with GnuPG. Is it possible to fix it for the
next version please?

Also I would be interested to know when you schedule to release the next
version (roughly)?

Patrick Brunschwig schrieb:
> Stefan Xenon wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I use GnuPG2 and tried to generate a key on the OpenPGP Card.
>> Unfortunately it failed with the error message "unbekannter Fehler bei
>> Schlüsselgenerierung" (unknown error). The Enigmail console tells me the
>> following command is executed:
> 
>> C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG2\gpg2.exe --charset utf8 --no-tty --status-
>> fd 1 --logger-fd 1 --command-fd 0 --with-colons --card-edit
> 
>> It works on the same system when configuring Enigmail to use GnuPG v1.
>> So maybe an compatibility issue with GnuPG v2?
> 
> Yes, an incompatibility with GnuPG v2. I have fixed this a few days ago.
> 
> In order to use gpg2, you will need a trunk version of Enigmail. Please
> also note that generating keys and administration of GnuPG cards is
> broken in Enigmail v0.96.0; it will be fixed in the next version of
> Enigmail.
> 
> -Patrick
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