Freron MailMate

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  benny November 2nd, 2014 @ 02:32 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

  I think it's possible already (I forgot the details, but it's a feature which currently does not work well, because it has no GUI), but it's not really important since currently you have to use the MacGPG2 version. MailMate relies on the GUI provided via their version of gpg2. Otherwise MailMate cannot ask for any passwords needed to access keys.

  I can track this as a request for allowing alternative gpg2 installs.

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  Johan Bergström February 19th, 2015 @ 10:52 PM

  If people are using the cli tools (for instance from homebrew), wouldn't assuming gpg-agent also be a pretty good standpoint?

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  benny February 24th, 2015 @ 12:09 PM

  @Johan: MailMate still has no GUI itself to ask for passwords. I'm pretty sure it'll only work with MacGPG2. I don't think the “homebrew” variant can handle that. It's not their fault though. Ideally, MailMate really should not rely on MacGPG2.

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  Johan Bergström March 23rd, 2015 @ 03:55 AM

  @benny: I recall most gpg2-tools using pinentry? Could mailmate spawn that as an alternate input method if using homebrew/similar binaries?

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  Christian December 18th, 2017 @ 10:21 AM

  I can confirm that pinentry (i.e. the password prompt in GPGtools) works with gpg2 installed through homebrew. GPG Tools itself also works without installing MacGPG but with GPG2 installed through homebrew: https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/19119-gpgtools-....

  It would indeed be nice if Mailmate could correctly handle interaction with gpg2 installed directly through homebrew. Assuming it's just a matter of trying /usr/local/bin/gpg instead of only /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2.

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  Christian January 3rd, 2018 @ 12:24 PM

  In addition to "/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2", this might be a good starting point for detecting another GPG library:
  "gpg2", "/bin/gpg2", "/usr/bin/gpg2", "/usr/local/bin/gpg2", "gpg", "/bin/gpg", "/usr/bin/gpg", "/usr/local/bin/gpg".

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  benny January 8th, 2018 @ 02:24 PM

  @Christian: Thanks for the details. I'll note, again, to make alternative installs more easily accessible. (I would probably be hesitant with respect to automatically looking through a lot of locations though.)

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  benny February 7th, 2019 @ 12:09 PM

  • State changed from “accepted” to “fixcommitted”

  I realized GPGTools (now named GPG Suite), gpg-suite-no-mail (brew package) and gpg (brew package) place a symlink at /usr/local/bin/gpg. I've changed this to be default in MailMate since this should make it work for most MailMate users and maybe even other alternatives.

  This is in the next update of MailMate. The documentation is also going to be updated.

  (At the same time I've improved the debug output a bit to make it easier to debug issues when signing emails.)

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  benny May 27th, 2019 @ 01:05 PM

  • State changed from “fixcommitted” to “fixreleased”

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