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Re: Always prompts "Enter PGP passphrase:"



Dear nik,

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:22:17PM +0200, nik wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:40:07PM +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 05:27:16AM +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> > > Dear Folks,
> > > 
> > > I am using 1.4.2.1i and have been unable to get mutt to remember my
> > > gpg passphrase; it prompts me to enter it for every email I sign.  I
> > > would really like mutt to remember my passphrase for a while.
> > > 
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Am I the only one that this happens to?
> 
> Put the following line in your muttrc:
> 
> set pgp_timeout=some_number
> 
> where "some_number" is the number of seconds after which the
> cashed passphrase will expire if not used. If I remember correctly, the
> default is 300s.

Thank you very much, but if you grep through my previous email, you
will see:

grep pgp_timeout ~/previous-email
set pgp_timeout=7200

so perhaps that is not the problem.
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