[SOLVED] Re: How to get a pinentry box to digitally sign all emails

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

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Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:27:40 +0100, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> said:
>     >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     >> ;; auto-sign all mail
>     >> ;;(add-hook 'gnus-message-setup-hook 'mml-secure-message-sign-pgp)
>     >> ;;(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'mml-secure-message-sign-pgp)
>     >> (setq mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender t
>     >> ;;    mml-secure-message-sign-pgp t
>     >> mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender t)
>     >> (setq epg-pinentry-mode 'ask)
>     >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>     >> 
>     >> And just to check, I have 'pinentry-gnome3' installed, but I have just
>     >> installed all 'pinentry-*' packages.
>     >> 
>     >> So lets see what happens now then!?
>     >> 
>   
>     Sharon> And after rebooting I'm still unable to get the pinentry box popping up,
>     Sharon> although this one will be signed because I've manually inserted
>     Sharon> '<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>' at the heading off the mail. but
>     Sharon> how can I get it appearing automatically without me having to manually
>     Sharon> click it in the menus?
>
> Remove the ';;' from your two add-hook commands above (and either
> evaluate .emacs or restart emacs).
>
> If youʼre not getting a pinentry box from emacs, but you are getting
> one from other programs, itʼs possible that gpg has decided to cache
> an earlier answer. You can control that with the 'default-cache-ttl'
> and 'max-cache-ttl' settings in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf (and I donʼt
> remember offhand if such changes are dynamic).
>
Thanks for replying Robert.

Bingo! Its now working as it did in emacs26, and for the benefit of the
archives, this is what is in my conf file.

  --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; auto-sign all mail
(add-hook 'gnus-message-setup-hook 'mml-secure-message-sign-pgp)
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'mml-secure-message-sign-pgp)
(setq mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender t
      mml-secure-message-sign-pgp t
      mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender t)
(setq epg-pinentry-mode 'ask)
  --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
  
Thanks for being so persistent Robert, and for the final solution.
Magic!!!

Thanks
  Sharon.  
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