[Enigmail] Enigmail on Ubuntu 9.04

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Andy Ruddock wrote:
>> Irritating isn't it!
> 
> Thank you, Andy.  This definitely should be entered in Launchpad as a
> bug against Enigmail.  If Ubuntu is going to have their Enigmail package
> use their own passphrase manager, Ubuntu should also remove from
> Enigmail all passphrase caching options -- otherwise users will just get
> mighty confused.
> 
> Would you like to enter this one, or shall I?


No, it's not a bug of any system. It's simply the "problem" that Ubunutu
starts gpg-agent (or actually seahorse-agent) at login, which is
obviously before Thunderbird/Enigmail. If Enigmail detects a gpg-agent,
then it uses the agent and the idle times are irrelevant (because
Enigmail has no control over gpg-agent).

See also bug 20873 <https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20873>

The only solution I have (implemented in trunk) is to warn that
gpg-agent might use different idle time settings.

- -Patrick
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