On 11/23/2016 10:05 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> On 23.11.16 16:52, Anthony Papillion wrote:
>> When I tell Enigmail to refresh all of my public keys, I /always/ get
>> the message at the end of the operation that says "keyserver refresh
>> failed: bad public key".
>>
>> I'm assuming that I receive this message because a few of the keys in my
>> keyring are not on the public keyservers but I don't know for sure. When
>> I go through the other details, I see no errors of key fetching so I
>> don't know which key(s) isn't working.
>>
>> Is there any way for me to figure this out? I don't mind /getting/ the
>> message, I just want to know what's causing it.
> 
> This sounds like a GnuPG error message. GnuPG would not complain about
> nonexistent keys on keyservers, but really only when a key cannot be
> imported or updated at all.
> 
> Try to run the following command from the command line and see what
> GnuPG tells you:

Looks like you're right. When I run the command from the terminal, I get
the exact same error from GnuPG. It looks like Enigmail is just spitting
out what it's getting from GnuPG. I'll hit up their mailing list.

Thanks,
Anthony

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