[Bug 179997] can't sign mails with gpg

[Anne Wilson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179997





--- Comment #7 from Anne Wilson <cannewilson googlemail com>  2009-05-13 13:22:11 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Now i can read encrypted messages, but still i can't sign. I guess this means
> that the pinentry stuff is correctly installed and you will finally admit it is
> a bug... The message i get now when i try to sign is that the recipient doesn't
> have encryption preferences. Am i supposed to set those preferences for each
> item in my address book? I'll be old when i finish...

Calm down :-) I had exactly the same problem as this for some time.  After long
investigation it turned out that something on my keyring was corrupt.  It's
simple enough to test for this.  Back up your keyring, then remove gpg from
your system, and start afresh so that it creates an empty keyring.  Import your
own public key, and replace your private keyring from the backup file.  If
signing now works there is a corruption in the old keyring.

As for the message about contacts, I don't know whether it is connected with
the other problem, or whether it is a distro-specific problem.  I've never seen
it.  Try the new-keyring solution first.

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