I have Evolution installed on Linuxmint, I cannot find /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/camel-gpg-binary?
On Mon, 2022-10-03 at 04:26 +0200, Ángel wrote: > On 2022-10-01 at 14:21 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Not that I can see. GPG is such a fundamental aspect of lots of > > encryption on Linux that my system won't even let me remove it and > > renaming the binary would break lots of things. > > > > One thing that comes to mind is that there is a dconf key > > > > > > > > you could try setting that to something like /bin/false: > > > > dconf write /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/camel-gpg-binary > > "'/bin/false'" > > > > Hopefully then it will try to run the program to decrypt the > > message > > and fail. > > This should do. > The password prompt does not come from evolution, but from gpg. > > When confronted with a PGP block, evolution will give it to gpg > (camel- > gpg-binary) to handle it. As this is an encrypted message, gpg will > ask > gpg-agent to decrypt it. In this case, it has the private key but it > does not have the passphrase (if the gpg key had no passphrase or it > was already provided in this session, it would be automatically > decrypted), so it launches your pinentry to prompt for the passphrase > to unlock this key. > > By setting /bin/false as your camel-gpg-binary, you effectively > disable > all gpg in your evolution. > > However, since you have a PGP key, and you are receiving PGP- > encrypted > mails, I think you would actually benefit from evolution being able > to > show your decrypted emails sometimes. So we would need to know to > what > is the actual problem (you don't want to type the passphrase every > time > you boot your computer? gpg-agent forgets the passphrase too early?). > > > Kind regards > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
