[kde-freebsd] KMail - GPG Integration How-To

[Thomas Abthorpe]

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On Tuesday 13 October 2009 16:35:54 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm not sure how to submit updates for the website. Is there a guide on how
>  to  format things? Because I think I've found a better way to start up
>  gpg-agent with KDE.
> 
> I started researching the problem because at home I have to use kdm so my
>  wife  can have her own account. KDM doesn't read .xinitrc. So I did some
>  research and found the following method.
> 
> Creating an executable file in ~/.kde4/env with the following lines will
>  do  the gpg-agent startup and environment variable propagation perfectly,
>  and will work both with startx and KDM:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> killall gpg-agent #Get rid of old processes.
> rm -Rf /tmp/gpg* >/dev/null 2>&1 #Remove stale socket files
> eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --sh)" 
> 
> You can even put it in /usr/local/kde4/env so that it will start up a
>  process  for any user that logs in. It's multi-user safe... killall only
>  works on processes that match your own user-id (unless you're the
>  super-user) and the rm command will dump any messages into /dev/null.
> 
> Any thoughts? And if there's a guide out there for creating a website
>  update,  let me know where it is and I'll do a better writeup.
> 

Hi Dwayne

Check out this, http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/PGP_MIME, as it is a wiki, you 
should be able to sign up for an account and contribute there.


Thomas


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