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ThatGeoGuy on June 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Securing Email Communications from Facebook

You may be failing to start gpg-agent properly. Are you exporting GPG_AGENT_INFO? What does it say?

I noticed this was somewhat of a sore spot for people when Enigmail started forcing gpg2 instead of letting the user choose. I don't disagree with forcing gpg2, but there were definitely some configuration changes that needed to be made on my system to cope with / reflect that choice.

facepalm on June 1, 2015 [–]

Thanks, I'll look into that. I don't think I ever explicitly configured gpg-agent, so there might be a lingering issue.

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