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add a blog post about pinentry vs enigmail
author Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de>
date Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:19:59 +0100
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1 Title: enigmail vs. pinentry
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2 Date: 2014-12-09
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3 Lang: en
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5 I recently got a new Laptop and installed it with [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org) 64 bit. Along the process I had a hard time getting [Thunderbird](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/), the [enigmail](https://enigmail.net/home/index.php) plugin and [gnupg](https://www.gnupg.org/) to play together nicely.
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7 I had everything set up correctly (or so I thought) and the proper keys in place. But kept getting strange error messages from enigmail about missing passwords.
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9 After hours of pointless poking around I found the culprit: gpg is trying to request passphrases via `/usr/bin/pinentry` but I did not even have a pinentry package installed.
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11 So as a hint for anyone who may stuble over the same problem as I did:
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13 emerge app-crypt/pinentry
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15 and dont' forget to enable one of the GUI keywords e.g. `gtk` or `qt`. To make sure that the pinentry link points to the correct binary run
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17 eselect pinentry list
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19 and select the correct variant.
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21 Enjoy sending gpg secured mails!