On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I'm having a problem in Evolution (3.18.5.2) but suspect that it's > really something in my GPG setup. When I try to sign and encrypt a > message, I get: > > Could not create message. > > Because "gpg: skipped "XXXXXXXX": No secret key > gpg: signing failed: No secret key > ", you may need to select different mail options. > > I have used GPG in the past with the same key (also from Evolution) > without any problem. Both my own and the destination address are in > my > keyring. > > When I try to use Seahorse to sign a key, it tells me I have no > secret > key to do this with, which looks like the same error. > > So what does "no secret key" mean? All keys in the keyring were > generated by GPG as public/private pairs, so I don't understand > what's > going on.
After endless faffing around with no progress, I decided to try sending the email with Thunderbird, and discovered what the root problem was. I hadn't mentioned before (didn't seem relevant) that this was a message to two recipients. It turns out that I only have the public key of one of them in my keyring. IOW the error message from Evolution was completely misleading. When I restricted the message to the person whose key I do have, I was asked for the passphrase and everything worked. I'll report this as a bug. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
