Working around thunderbird+enigmail's agent problems (very obsolete)

Owned by Christoph Lechleitner
2012-05-26

In my environments, thunderbird's GPG/PGP addon enigmail usually cannot access the GPG agent, it just insists on "problem with the agent - disabling agent use".

Unfortunately disabling the agent usage is ignored in recent versions, because "agent is obligatory".

There is a workaround however: Hide the GPG agent from thunderbird by starting it this way:
GPG_AGENT_INFO="" thunderbird &

amn, there goes half an afternoon.

 

From: IBCL BLog.
Originally posted: 2010-07-22