Getting KMail to decrypt gnupg messages

[stig]

When I try to open an encrypted message in KMail, the content of the mail is displayed in a blue frame, whit this text:

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Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data.
Error: Decryption failed
  Encrypted data not shown.
  End of encrypted message

I'm never asked to type in my passphrase.
KMail let's me send encrypted and signed messages, and they decrypt fine in mutt for instance.

[edit]I'm running 64-bit, if that has something to do with it.. [/edit]

[jdgill0]

When I try to open an encrypted message in KMail, the content of the mail is displayed in a blue frame, whit this text:

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Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data.
Error: Decryption failed
  Encrypted data not shown.
  End of encrypted message

I'm never asked to type in my passphrase.
KMail let's me send encrypted and signed messages, and they decrypt fine in mutt for instance.

[edit]I'm running 64-bit, if that has something to do with it.. [/edit]

I don't know if 64-bit is specific to your problem, but this typically happens when kmail tries to decrypt an email with an encrypted attachment. kmail can only do this if you have gpg-agent and pinentry setup, without these you can send/receive encrypted email for the body of the email only, i.e. no attachments.

[puggy]

This is really annoying. I can only think that there is something failing between the gpg-agent and KDE.

douglas 13740 0.0 0.0 2152 424 ? Ss 12:05 0:00 gpg-agent --daemon

So it's running, cool, although I've not been asked for my password.

KGpg when started claims that,

"The use of GnuPG Agent is enabled in GnuPG's configuration file (/home/douglas/.gnupg/gpg.conf).
However, the agent does not seem to be running. This could result in problems with signing/decryption.
Please disable GnuPG Agent from KGpg settings, or fix the agent.

And kmail has the annoying habit of claiming:

Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data.
Error: Bad passphrase

Encrypted data not shown.

and I never ever get asked for a passphrase.

I've got:
[ebuild R ] app-crypt/gpg-agent-1.9.19
[ebuild R ] app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.2-r2
[ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3
and the relevant parts of KDE 3.5

God knows what's wrong with it. This is on a 32bit platform, ppc and x86, both exhibit the same problem.

[jdgill0]

puggy,

When is the gpg-agent being started? If it's not started prior to starting KDE then KDE will not see or use it.

[puggy]

Thanks, that fixed it. I had thought executing the eval line once KDE was running would be enough, I'm not used to having to restart things.