Bug#280175: pgp/mime encryption not working in kmail 1.7

[Alejandro Exojo <suy@badopi.org>]

package kmail
tags 280175 unreproducible
stop

El Domingo, 7 de Noviembre de 2004 20:27, wolfgang escribió:
> in kmail 3.3.0-3, pgp/mime encryption and decryption are not working
> properly.

Here is working perfectly. Have you followed the steps that says this page? 
How you have configured kmail?

http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html

> pgp/mime encrypted messages are displayed as
>
> Encrypted message (decryption not possible)
> Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data.
> Error: Falsche Passphrase

OpenPGP seems the old inline way, and in my kmail, is marked as obsolete.

> when selecting OpenPGP/MIME as encryption method for a new message, the

Well, OpenPGP/MIME is not the same than just Openpgp :-)

> message will be encrypted, but - with "always encrypt to self", i do not
> get prompted for a password. again, the message can only be encrypted on
> the command line, same for the remote recipient.
>
> signing messages / verifying signatures with pgp/mime works.

Only signing and decrypting messages requires your private key, so is the only 
moment you will be asked for a passphrase, IIRC.

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