Hi,

seems to be a GPG 2.0.x issue with large keyrings.
I opened https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2297 some time ago.

Try GPG 2.1.x as this helped.

Cheers,
Michael

On 23.11.2016 17:16, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> 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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