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Hi Norbert,

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 07:27:35PM +0100, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Package: claws-mail-pgpmime
> Version: 3.11.1-3+deb8u1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Encrypting email fails with the error message "Couldn't encrypt the email:
> Encryption failed, General error" if one of the recipient keys specifies
> the MD5 digest algorithm.

Just tried "gpg --version" and "gpg2 --version" and both have MD5
available as digest algorithms (Debian 8.3).

> I have found that putting "allow-weak-digest-algos" in my ~/.gnupg/options
> is an effective work-around as far as encryption from claws-mail is concerned.
> 
> However, adding that option causes encryption and decryption with gpg from
> the command line to break (error: "invalid option"), so that is not an
> acceptable work-around overall.

Which one does break gpg or gpg2?

By default ~/.gnupg/options is ignored, should be ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf¹,
so don't really understand what's the problem. 

Can you run claws-mail with --debug option in a terminal and try to
encrypt a mail to one of those recipients? It may show more info on
what's happening.

thanks in advance,

¹ https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Configuration.html
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
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