[Enigmail] Enigmail fails with GnuPG2 + OpenPGP Card

[Charly Avital]

Patrick Brunschwig wrote the following on 7/27/09 10:10 AM:
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> With GnuPG 2, gpg-agent must be used (no way to avoid it). Therefore it
> is not possible to control the duration of how long the passphrase is
> remembered, since passphrase-remembering is handled by gpg-agent -- it
> cannot be fixed in Enigmail by any means.
> 
> If you want to change the passhprase timeout settings, you'll need to
> create a gpg-agent.conf file in the same directory as your gpg.conf file.
> 
> The next release will be ready when it's ready. Sorry, I can't be more
> precise than this.
> 
> -Patrick

Stefan Xenon.

For your information, this is how I set gpg-agent's passphrase timeout
settings in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf  file:


default-cache-ttl [value in seconds, as per your choice]

max-cache-ttl [value in seconds, as you set above]

Charly
MacOS 10.5.7 - MacBook Intel C2Duo 2GHz - MacGPG 2.0.12
TB 2.0.0.22+EM 0.96.0 - PGP Key: 0xA57A8EFA