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Having done a fresh install I need to set this up again. We could do with an up to date guide. This might encourage more people to use encryption and signing.

I already have a keyring, but others need to know how to do that. That should probably be a separate question. I use KGPG to manage my keys.

In Kmail I know you need to set the default signing and encryption keys on your Identity.

When I try to sign an email it complains that signing failed without asking for my pass-phrase. What am I missing? How should I configure cryptography in Kmail?

qbi
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You need to put 

use-agent

in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

I know because Seahorse used to put a blank file there and break things for people using GNOME & KDE together. I wrote the patch that made it properly copy the skeleton file, but that wasn't until 2009.

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