Update on GnuPG for Mail.app in Leopard

Published 28th January 2009

Quite a few things happened since I wrote the GnuPG for Mail.app in Leopard how to, so I thought it would be time for a little update:

GPGMail 1.2.0 was released in late December and is now stable for Mac OS X Leopard.
MacGPG2 includes GnuPG 2 as opposed to MacGPG which includes version 1.
Pinentry-mac, the native pinentry program for Mac OS X, is now available as a separate download.

Pinentry-mac dialog

If you want to install GPGMail but don't have GnuPG installed, just pick up MacGPG2 and everything should work fine.
If you already have GnuPG installed and don't want to have a second version on your system, just install Pinentry-mac and specify the path to the application in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

pinentry-program /usr/local/libexec/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac

If the password dialog is annoying you, check out this guide on how to install gpg-agent with MacPorts on OS X.