[neomutt-users] How to encrypt emails in neomutt (in terminal only mode)?

[Chris Coutinho]

You may need to also set the `pinentry-program` in your
~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf. If you want to use pinentry curses, you're
going to want the following line in that fle:

pinentry-program /path/to/pinentry-curses

Cheers,
Chris

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:53 PM <moonmaillist at firemail.cc> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I am trying to encrypt emails with neomutt, but I want to force gpg not
> to use a graphical prompt to enter passwords. The reason is 1. The
> window blocks my interaction with Keepassx (I cannot enter a password
> there) and 2. I want to use neomutt on another system, which has no GUI.
>
> If I install pinentry-curses (for Debian based systems: sudo apt install
> pinentry-curses) and put `pinentry-mode loopback` into
> ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, gpg uses a password prompt in the terminal. It can be
> tested by creating a new key with the command: gpg --gen-key
>
> If I try to send an encrypted email with neomutt, it says: error
> encrypting data: General error
> After deleting the line in the gpg.conf the window pops up and it works.
>
> I copied the example file from /etc/neomuttrc.d/gpg.rc and added some
> lines from https://hispagatos.org/post/neomutt-gpg-howto/ (gpg.conf is
> attached).
>
> And I couldn't find any better tutorials than the one from
> hispagatos.org. I would really appreciate it, if someone could post a
> better tutorial with detailed instructions on how to use encryption in
> neomutt.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
>