On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:02 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Evo will report the signature as invalid if you don't have the signer's > public key in your keyring. > > Try clicking on the icon at the left end of the "signature" bar where > it's saying the signature is invalid. A "Security Information" box will > appear, and one of the lines will read "gpg: Signature made ... > using ... key ID xyz" You need to add that key to your keyring to be > able to check the signature. > > $ gpg --recv-key xyz > > Next time you see a signature from that poster, it should say "Valid > signature" for their mail, though it will probably also say "cannot > verify sender". That's another discussion though ;-) I wish people wouldn't sign letters to lists. I'm on dialup, but reading mail delivered (with some trickery not involving fetchmail) to my LAN. Here I am cruising down the list then it stops to check a signature and then off I go.
