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I have Thunderbird 24.4.0 and Enigmail 1.5.2 installed. My OS is Kubuntu 13.10 x64. gpg-agent version 2.0.20-1ubuntu3 gnupg version 1.4.14-1ubuntu2.1 pinentry-qt4 version 0.8.1-1ubuntu2 kgpg version 4.4.11.5-0ubuntu0.1

I have only one profile in Thunderbird. One email account. I created a new key pair using kgpg. When trying to sign and send an email, I get an error: Send operation aborted. Error - bad passphrase.

I never get prompted to enter a passphrase. gpg.conf is configured to "use-agent" but commenting that out doesn't do anything. I have no idea what I have to do to get a passphrase prompt.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks

Edit: Since it appears I am using gpg 1.4, do I have to use pinentry? What are the pros/cons of using it/not using it? Should I upgrade to gpg 2.0?

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  • It looks like you gave a password for your private key, or still have another (older) key around. What output is gpg --list-secret giving?
    – Jens Erat
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 8:28
  • It shows the sec/uid/ssb of the key I am trying to use. No other keys.
    – Fersty
    Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 13:01

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In my case I solved this replacing /bin/gpg by /bin/gpg2 path on Enigmail configuration.

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  • You mean renaming?
    – FiveO
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 9:06
  • No. In Enigmail configuration I replaced the path /bin/gpg by /bin/gpg2 I saw this solution in a forum that I don't remember now, but I spent hours trying a solution.
    – Felipe
    Commented Sep 9, 2014 at 17:05

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