[Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Gary Curtin
Newbie with Evolution and GPG, so please be patient. :-) When receiving GPG signed messages I keep getting the yellow error bar saying "Valid signature, but cannot verify sender (Name < em...@address.com>) I have the public key in Seahorse, so why is this error showing? signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 12:29 +0200, Gary Curtin wrote: > Newbie with Evolution and GPG, so please be patient. :-) > > When receiving GPG signed messages I keep getting the yellow error bar > saying "Valid signature, but cannot verify sender (Name < > em...@address.com>) > > I have the public key i

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Gary Curtin
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 12:18 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > Evolution just calls gpg in the background to do this sort of thing. I > suggest you do something like > >gpg --list-keys > > to verify the key is there and, most importantly, that there is a chain > of trust for the key. After all, the

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Pete Biggs
> Is there some kind of delay between signing the key in Seahorse, and > Evolution recognising that it is trusted/verified? Evolution itself doesn't do anything. As I said Evolution uses gpg in the background to deal with the keys. > > Using "gpg --list-keys" verifies that it is there, and in

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:18:24 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: >On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 12:29 +0200, Gary Curtin wrote: >> Newbie with Evolution and GPG, so please be patient. :-) >> >> When receiving GPG signed messages I keep getting the yellow error >> bar saying "Valid signature, but cannot verify sender

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: If you trusted (or revoked the trust) you need to select another mail by Evolution and after that select the mail with this particular key again, to change the colour from yellow to green (or green to yellow). ___ evolution-list mailing list evoluti

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Gary Curtin
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 14:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If you trusted (or revoked the trust) you need to select another mail > by Evolution and after that select the mail with this particular > key again, to change the colour from yellow to green (or green to > yellow). Thanks Ralf. Your detaile

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Japhering via evolution-list
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 12:29 +0200, Gary Curtin wrote: > Newbie with Evolution and GPG, so please be patient. :-) > > When receiving GPG signed messages I keep getting the yellow error bar > saying "Valid signature, but cannot verify sender (Name < > em...@address.com>) > > I have the public key i

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:34:19 -0500, Japhering via evolution-list wrote: >On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 12:29 +0200, Gary Curtin wrote: >> Newbie with Evolution and GPG, so please be patient. :-) >> >> When receiving GPG signed messages I keep getting the yellow error >> bar saying "Valid signature, but ca

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Zan Lynx
On 08/15/2018 02:34 PM, Japhering via evolution-list wrote: > > if I'm correct, then the following should resolve the yellow > > > gpg --keyserver --recv-keys No, that's not enough. Anyone can upload a key to the keyservers. They have no way to ensure that it actually belongs to a particular

Re: [Evolution] GPG - cannot verify sender

2018-08-15 Thread Gary Curtin
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 15:34 -0500, Japhering wrote: > Gang, correct me if I'm wrong... > > I read this as the sender's public key is not on Gary's keyring in > Seahorse and/or > not available from a public key server. > No, the sender's key was added but just receiving the key does not verify i