[mew-int 2703] Re: Mew can't decrypt .mew-passwd.gpg

[Chan Wilson]

Thanks to Gernot, a fix for this problem (which appears to be a
gpg-agent pinentry program fault)
under MacOSX (and presumably all affected platforms) is to put

    pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/mew-pinentry

into your ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file.

Change the path as needed.

--Chan


Chan Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Mew can't decode .mew-passwd.gpg.  No debug output regarding pgp/gpg
> operations, when (setq mew-debug t) either. :(
>
> Mew 6.2.51,
> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of
> 2009-01-03 on seijiz.local
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.10
>
> Relevant .mew.el settings:
>
> (setq mew-use-cached-passwd t)
> (setq mew-use-master-passwd t)
>
> (setq mew-pgp-ver 3)
> (setq mew-prog-gpg "gpg")
>
> (setf mew-use-cached-passwd t
>       mew-passwd-timer-unit 60
>       mew-passwd-lifetime 24)
>
> I've deleted and recreated (via mew) the .mew-passwd.gpg to no effect. 
> Putting a 'shim' around gpg to see how its running shows that Mew is
> invoking GPG correctly, and using that exact command does indeed decrypt
> the .mew-passwd.gpg file, so it seems that Mew isn't properly parsing
> the return from gpg??
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> --Chan  
>