On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 20:28, Trevor Smith wrote: > When people sign messages with gpg (or presumably with PGP) KMail tries to > verify their sigs, can't find their public keys in my keyring (because I have > no one's key) and reports, in a yellow frame around the text: > > The validity of the signature cannot be verified. > Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. > > This is not actually correct, is it? The "problem" isn't that the OpenPGP > plug-in isn't specified; the problem is that I don't have the key in my > keyring. When I receive a message signed by someone with a public key in my > keyring (like myself, for example) the message *is* verified properly -- and > I *still* don't have any OpenPGP plug-in specified. I don't use KMail so I'm not familiar with its features. With Evolution, I specify the following in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve This option tells gpg to get the specified key from a public keyserver - which needs to be specified as well in gpg.conf. <snip> -- Clifford Snow
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