On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 16:36 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2009 15:35:29 JohnS wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 19:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I'm asking here because it is the best resource I know for knowledgeable > > > people. The problem in question occurs on my Fedora 9 box and Fedora 10 > > > netbook, while another person, Chris, has the problem on a Mandriva 2009 > > > box. Whatever is causing it, that leads me to think that it's not > > > distro-specific. Both of us are using kmail. > > > > > > Kgpg sees and lists all the keys on my keyring. Setting up cryptography > > > for kmail on the boxes in question is where the problem lies. KMail does > > > not appear to be seeing the keyrings. When you try to select your key, > > > the list is empty. If you type in the key ID and ask it to fetch the > > > keys you get an endless back and forward progress bar. > > > > > > As an experiment, on my F10 netbook I renamed the ~/.gnupg folder and > > > recreated it by logging in. I did not copy my keyrings across. I then > > > asked for my key to be imported, and that completed correctly. I then > > > turned to KMail, but still my key could not be seen or used. > > > > I dont use KDE but I would really think your Key ID has to be in the > > Mail Client itself. There should be a place for it. Use gpg on the > > commandline. See man gpg. > > > I need gpg to work with kmail - and it does on most of the boxes I've set up. > > For some reason, though, on my two Fedora boxes and Chris's Mandriva box > kmail > will not associate with the gpg keys. There's no way that I can see that > this > can be set up manually - unless it is written into an rc file. I'll > investigate that possibility.
http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/gnupg-kmail.php For BSD but should be similiar in steps. Check it out or search kde.org > > > > I think that that experiment rules out any possibility that I had > > > introduced the problem by copying in config files and keyrings from > > > previous versions. > > > > > > Can anyone suggest further lines of enquiry? Thanks > > > > Anne > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos