Bug 190158

Summary:	misleading error message when pinentry-qt is missing
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	bauerfichtner
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description bauerfichtner 2009-04-20 12:20:23 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.10)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

I have "pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt" set in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf. Somehow the package providing pinentry-qt got deleted. KMail then complained that gpg-agent was not running whenever I had to enter the passphrase for my secret key. gpg-agent was running, the problem was resolved by installing pinentry-qt, nothing else was changed.
The error message is misleading. It should probably read that the required binary was not found.

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:04:02 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.