On Saturday 29 November 2008 20:19:35 Todd Zullinger wrote: > 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 annew@xxxxxxx --encrypt /tmp/gpgtest > gpg --decrypt /tmp/gpgtest.gpg > > (Replace annew@xxxxxxx if that's not the address on one of your keys.) Yes, all the commands work, although during the encrypt and decrypt I got can't connect to `/tmp/gpg-h6iHaR/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory That may or may not indicate a problem, but considering gpg-agent's purpose I doubt if it is the cause of my trouble. Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
