On Friday 09 January 2009, Mark Wallace wrote:
> The post Joe just made shows "needs public key" rather than being
> displayed in Evolution.  I just put evolution in.  It did the same
> thing for someone else.  Is that a setting that I change in
> Evolution?

I'm a little confused -- you mean that the text of Joe's email would 
not show because it was key-signed, but yet you were able to reply 
back to the list which contianed the text of Joe's email that wasn't 
shown?  That is strange.  I don't use nor am I familiar with 
Evolution, so I don't know how to answer your question except to 
agree with you that that seems wrong.  It makes a lot more sense to 
show the text, with a colorized warning that the signing key is 
unknown or untrusted.

I ran into a vaguely similar GnuPG issue just this evening.  When 
replying to an encrypted email I was unable to send back an encrypted 
email using a key that I had both signed and marked as trusted 
becuase I had not specifically marked the specific UID (i.e. email 
address) as being trusted.  This leads to some very interesting 
confusion, because most of the GUI programs view GnuPG keys as being 
either signed and/or trusted in an all-or-nothing manner.  This left 
me in a confusing GUI dialog loop where I was repeatedly asked to 
choose a valid signed/trusted key, and the key for the individual in 
question showed as being both signed and trusted, yet was not 
accepted.

I was able to figure out and fix the issue at the command line pretty 
quickly with 'gpg --edit-key', but that's the only place that made it 
clear what the problem was.

   -- Chris

-- 

Chris Knadle
[email protected]


>
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:31 -0500, Joseph T Apuzzo wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Came across this site by accident:
> >
> > http://linuxtracker.org/
> >
> > Now an easy way to get that that CD or DVD you've been looking
> > for quick!
> >
> > Joe
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
> > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
> >
> > iEYEARECAAYFAkln3koACgkQsACJ4LtccWR/zgCdH6WYiiWLQ0hp1yG8wF/FbqbQ
> > f7sAnjdOX3LpB7B2dq1yjj66FqDDMZRn
> > =dGiq
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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