Bug 250709

Summary: KMail: please use KWallet for GPG encryption/signing
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Jeffrey <eljefedelito>
Component: encryptionAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: eljefedelito, exabyte, fischer, luigi.toscano
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.13.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jeffrey 2010-09-09 22:42:36 UTC 
Version:           1.13.5 (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

This is a re-submittal of this bug, which was for KDE 3.x series
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106185

Basically, please don't use Qt pinentry for signing or encrypting emails, but instead please use KWallet which is much more configurable for how long it holds your passphrase, when it is available and is not, etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Set up a GPG key within KMail
Compose an email and opt to sign it
Send the email and pinentry opens when KWallet could be doing this

Actual Results:  
pinentry opens

Expected Results:  
KWallet provides the passphrase or the user is prompted to open KWallet

This may be fixed when KMail2 comes out in Q4 2010 but if not then this will still be valid.

Thanks for KDE and the KDE-PIM suite of softwares!
Comment 1 Milko Krachounov 2010-12-04 05:12:35 UTC 
There's https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136205
Comment 2 Thomas Fischer 2011-05-09 10:40:27 UTC 
> Expected Results:  
> KWallet provides the passphrase or the user is prompted to open KWallet

I would like to suggest an alternative path here. Instead of making KMail take care of all the password handling and GnuPG communication without pinentry, write a new pinentry application called pinentry-kwallet, which works just like pinentry-qt or pinentry-gtk, but instead of asking the user for a password, it would look into the wallet first.

This approach would have two advantages: First, it does not require any changes in KMail. Second, it would work for all application using gpg+pinentry, such as Thunderbird.

Programming the pinentry-kwallet application should not be too difficult if one starts from pinentry-qt, as Qt already supports dbus which can be used to query the password from KWallet's storage.

Volunteers? ;-)
Maybe make it a junior job ...
Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:50:15 UTC 
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 4 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-18 23:51:01 UTC 
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2
Comment 5 Jeffrey 2012-08-20 11:29:04 UTC 
> Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2

Sorry, I am unsure; Debian Sid doesn't yet have KMail2.  Can anyone else test this?