On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:30:00PM -0500, Jack Dodds wrote: > the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable. In that situation, Enigmail requests the > passphrase directly. i.e. Enigmail falls back to a direct passphrase > request if it can't find GPG_AGENT_INFO, but it does not fall back if it > gets a name for the gpg-agent socket and fails to connect using that name= > =2E >
I think i have a patch now. It takes care that this agent feature is not used before gpg 2. attached. please test and provide feedback. - Alexander
#!/bin/sh -e ## by Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. ## DP: No description. if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo >&2 "`basename $0`: script expects -patch|-unpatch as argument" exit 1 fi [ -f debian/patches/00patch-opts ] && . debian/patches/00patch-opts patch_opts="${patch_opts:--f --no-backup-if-mismatch}" case "$1" in -patch) patch $patch_opts < $0;; -unpatch) patch $patch_opts -R < $0;; *) echo >&2 "`basename $0`: script expects -patch|-unpatch as argument" exit 1;; esac exit 0 @DPATCH@ --- mozilla/extensions/enigmail/package/enigmail.js.bak 2008-12-01 03:19:41.000000000 +0100 +++ mozilla/extensions/enigmail/package/enigmail.js 2008-12-01 03:20:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -1347,16 +1347,19 @@ this.stillActive(); this.initialized = true; DEBUG_LOG("enigmail.js: Enigmail.initialize: END\n"); } Enigmail.prototype.useGpgAgent = function() { + if(this.agentVersion < "2.0") + return false; + var useAgent = false; try { useAgent= (this.gpgAgentInfo.envStr.length>0 || this.prefBranch.getBoolPref("useGpgAgent")); } catch (ex) {} return useAgent; }