I could read his email, but this appeared at his signature
Robert Mark Wallace
60 Delaware Road
Newburgh, NY 12550-3802
Telephone: (845) 566-0586
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Chris Knadle wrote:
On Friday 09 January 2009, Mark Wallace wrote:
The post Joe just made shows "needs public key" rather than being
displayed in Evolution. I just put evolution in. It did the same
thing for someone else. Is that a setting that I change in
Evolution?
I'm a little confused -- you mean that the text of Joe's email would
not show because it was key-signed, but yet you were able to reply
back to the list which contianed the text of Joe's email that wasn't
shown? That is strange. I don't use nor am I familiar with
Evolution, so I don't know how to answer your question except to
agree with you that that seems wrong. It makes a lot more sense to
show the text, with a colorized warning that the signing key is
unknown or untrusted.
I ran into a vaguely similar GnuPG issue just this evening. When
replying to an encrypted email I was unable to send back an encrypted
email using a key that I had both signed and marked as trusted
becuase I had not specifically marked the specific UID (i.e. email
address) as being trusted. This leads to some very interesting
confusion, because most of the GUI programs view GnuPG keys as being
either signed and/or trusted in an all-or-nothing manner. This left
me in a confusing GUI dialog loop where I was repeatedly asked to
choose a valid signed/trusted key, and the key for the individual in
question showed as being both signed and trusted, yet was not
accepted.
I was able to figure out and fix the issue at the command line pretty
quickly with 'gpg --edit-key', but that's the only place that made it
clear what the problem was.
-- Chris
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