Anne Wilson wrote: > If I call kgpg I can see all the keys on my keyring, but I'm having > problems with kmail. It can't set a key for either signing or > encryption - it says it is fetching the key - and it also says that > it is checking the key at the same time - but they go on until you > stop them. > > If that were all I'd think that I either had a gpg setup/install > issue or the daemon wasn't starting, but it's not that simple. > KMail can see and use the keys to notify the status of signed > emails, and can even decrypt encrypted mail. > > I'm left wondering how KMail can be seeing and using the keys in one > situation, but not the other. All ideas would be truly welcome. > Otherwise, when I get back from a few days' break I'm going to try > thunderbird. I'd hate to do that as a long-term solution, though, > particularly since KMail on my Mandriva laptop is still functioning > correctly.
Odd. It definitely sounds like something kmail or kgpg related. If
it was gnupg, I wouldn't think you'd be able to descypt things.
You could skip setting up Thunderbird and just test gpg from a
terminal. If you can list keys, sign, verify, encrypt, and decrypt
from the command line, that would seem to rule out gpg.
Some example commands to try:
gpg --list-keys
gpg --list-secret-keys
echo testing> /tmp/gpgtest
gpg --sign -a /tmp/gpgtest
gpg --verify /tmp/gpgtest.asc
gpg -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] --encrypt /tmp/gpgtest
gpg --decrypt /tmp/gpgtest.gpg
(Replace [EMAIL PROTECTED] if that's not the address on one of your keys.)
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