Comment 3 for bug 293146

Hi, thanks for your response.

I have just checked the steps you mentioned. For me, it is a gpg-agent related problem. Although everything (gpg + gpg-agent) is installed fine, the gpg-agent has not been started for my session. That is why kopete could not find the agent and fails silently.

Everything works like expected if I manually startup the agent, set the environment correctly and then start kopete.

So, beside the silent failure, it looks like a problem with gpg-agent here, that is not started within KDE after the user logs in. How should the agent been started in KDE normally? Has a new user to setup gpg-agent manually like stated at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KMailGPGAgent#Configuring%20KDE%20to%20start%20gpg-agent%20on%20login?