Unable to get pine-pgp-filters and pinentry-curses to work together

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Doug Barton wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>> I installed mail/pine and security/gnupg from ports. While trying to use 
>> gnupg, whenever it needed to ask me for the passphrase, I ran into errors 
>> such as the below:
>> 
>> gpg-agent[86284]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec 
>> `/usr/local/bin/pinentry': No such file or directory'
>
> The pkg-message for gnupg clearly says that you need to have a pinentry 
> program. Glad you figured that bit out.

Now that you mention, yeah, it does! Funny I missed it out. Since it 
mentions pinentry there, that's fine, no need to pull it in as a 
dependency. My bad. :)

>> Later, I installed pine-pgp-filters.
>
> Always glad to have a new user, but you might have thought to cc this message 
> to the author/maintainer of that port. :)

I know you subscribe to this list. Have seen a lot of your postings here, 
that's why I didn't copy you specifically. By posting to the list 
there'd be some info on this by way of archives and I'd get a reply 
from you anyways. :)

BTW, I ask coz I don't know: as a matter of etiquette, is it a good idea 
to cc the author/ maintainer of the port even if he/ she is subscribed to 
the list?

>> Now, whenever I send a mail and want to sign/ encrypt it and gnupg has to 
>> ask me for the passphrase, it messes my screen up! I get error messages 
>> like these:
>
> Based on what Pine gives me to work with, I don't see any way that I could 
> pass control of the terminal to a third application. I use gnupg2 with the 
> gtk pinentry program with pine and the filters just fine, but if you can't do 
> X, then ...

Ok, so it is something like what I thought.

>> For now the only workaround I've come up with is to install 
>> security/gnupg1. That does not require pinentry and so it works well with 
>> pine-pgp-filters.
>
> I think that's your only option.

Hmm, ok.

Thank you,
Rakhesh