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How do encrypt and decrypt file using gpg in emacs using passphrase?

Hope all is well. I am setting up mu4e on emacs and I got but when I try to send an email I cant because my .authinfo.gpg is not being decrypted. it says that it cant find the key. But I remember ...
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How to use authinfo gpg when configuring a package with use-package

I want to use ejira in conjuntion with use-package as suggested in the readme: (use-package ejira :init (setq jiralib2-url "https://jira.mycorp.com" jiralib2-auth ...
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How to use Emacs Pinentry with Org-mode Bash source Blocks?

Main Problem I wanted to be more secure and convenient with my passwords and encryption so I have been trying to make GPG with Emacs work for my password store and SSH agent. I have Emacs-Pinentry ...
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Storing Database Authentication Details Securely

(Note: I would normally use gpg versions of these files but for debugging I've scrapped gpg until I can get it working without encrypting!) I'd like to store my username/password credentials securely ...
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How to avoid using auth-sources when editing with sudo?

When I invoke crux-sudo-edit, Emacs hangs forever with the following message: Decrypting /home/$USER/.authinfo.gpg...0% until I press C-g, then it asks: Passphrase for symmetric encryption for /home/$...
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`auth-source-search` cannot deal with multiple consecutive searches

I am a heavy user of https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack, and I noticed a weird behavior of auth-source-search: If I call this function multiple times, querying the second info always returns nil. ...
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How to use authinfo credentials with Magit to push/pull to Overleaf

Overleaf allows git for some users. I have been using emacs and magit with overleaf since some time by providing username-password at each git push or git pull. What I want Now I want to configure ...
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Unable to authenticate sending mail using smtpmail-send-it to gmail, "Username and Password not Accepted"

I would like mu4e to use smtpmail-send-it to send emails from emacs. I would like smtpmail-send-it to authenticate using pass. I have 2factor auth on my gmail account, so I have to use an App Password....
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remembering auth details for excorporate with .netrc

I've set up excorporate mode so that I can use emacs to read my outlook calendar. However I am annoyed by having to input a username/password every time I open emacs. I tried a .netrc: machine ...
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authinfo.gpg but still promted for smtpmail credentials

I have the following in my init.el: (require 'smtpmail) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-stream-type 'starttls smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" ...
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Using an advice to set default parameters in a interactive function

I'm not sure if this is possible or if there's a workaround for it, but I want M-x erc to set the password after I try to call it, but before I input the actual parameters. What I originally had in ...
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Using auth-source with magit and bitbucket

The code base I'm working on has recently moved from ssh key controlled git to https bitbucket. I use Magit to handle my version control in Emacs. In the old ssh world I was never challenged for my ...
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How can I create secrets for use with the Secrets API auth-source?

Trying to create new secrets in the GNOME keyring via auth-source results in The Secrets API auth-source backend doesn’t support creation yet How can I manually create this secret?
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Org-mode header properties from .authinfo.gpg?

I was just looking at This literate SQL / org-mode example and see that org-mode supports username and password fields in a SQL source code block. As illustrated there: ** MySQL Analysis :...
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`auth-source-search` returns nil for valid queries

In trying to debug auth failures from something that should be getting its auth info from auth-sources, I noticed an extremely weird thing: auth-source-search frequently returns nil for valid queries -...
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How to prevent gnus from unlocking my GnuPG key

I'm using Gnus to read newsgroups via nntp. I am using mu4e to read and send e-mails. My e-mail server credentials are stored in ~/.authinfo.gpg so that mu4e can access them. My problem is that ...
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