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From:
"Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net>
Subject:
S/MIME Setup for claws-mail on Xfce
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:55:47 -0500

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  • Robert B. Carleton:

    S/MIME Setup for claws-mail on Xfce

I'm trying to setup S/MIME on claws-mail under Xfce on the OpenBSD 7.9
release. Though Xfce is starting gpg-agent when I login via xenodm, the
"Use gpg-agent to manage passwords" is grayed out in the "Passphrase"
portion of the GPG plugin preferences. The "Store passphrase in
memory" is not checked. The GnuPG executable path set to
/usr/local/bin/gpg. The PGP/Core, and S/MIME plugins are loaded.

The side effect of this is that I can not use pinentry-qt5 to provide a
GUI for entering passphrases. It doesn't totally break things. I can
still run claws-mail from the command line to use the curses pinentry
dialogs. That works.

Does anyone have suggestions for my configuration, or perhaps a way to
get more descriptive errors?

TIA,

			--Bruce