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Kmail and PGP/MIMEKmail and PGP/MIMEPosted Jul 20, 2004 20:42 UTC (Tue) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459)In reply to: Kmail and PGP/MIME by rfunk Parent article: The Grumpy Editor, graphical mail clients, and GPG You are right, the installation of the gnupg 2 line of code (gnupg-1.9 will eventually end up as gnupg 2) is not as easy as the standard gpg. One problem seems to be that I have been pretty conservative and flagged the gnupg 1.9 branch as "experimental". This is not really the truth but more a consession for the 1.2 branch (tagged "stable") and the 1.3 branch (tagged "development"). A suggestion for a better tag is welcome. gnupg 1.9 is really usable and part of the EPROSS release done by the German BSI (they need the S/MIME part of it). One thing which is not yet really stable is the gpg part (i.e. the classic OpenPGP) of gnupg-1.9 - however it gets installed as gpg2 and will peacefully coexists with any other gpg. Even old gpgs (1.2.4 or 1.3.6) can make use of the gpg-agent. Given the problems people have with it, today I added a new configure option to allow building just the agent. I hope this will make it easier for distributions to package just gpg-agent so that all gpg aware tools can make use of the passphrase caching and don't need to care about the passphrase dialog at all. I am convinced that the recent work done at the CVS Kmail will result in an outstanding support for PGP/MIME, that old inline PGP and S/MIME.
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