[kdepim-users] Relationship between kmail and kgpg

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 01 March 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 01 March 2009 03:18:53 Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > KMail appears to be pulling in new signatures.   However, the
> > > only ones that
> > > show up in kgpg are those that I imported manually.  This
> > > implies, to me, that
> > > kmail is using a different keyring from gpg.  Comments?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > you should check about gpg-agent
> >
> > ps -fu `id -un` | grep gpg
> > emanoil   6862  6806  0 Feb26 ?
> > 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --sh
> > --write-env-file=/home/emanoil/.gnupg/gpg-agent-info-maistor
> > /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/keytouchd-launch
> > /usr/bin/startkde emanoil   6863  6806  0 Feb26 ?
> > 00:00:07 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --sh
> > --write-env-file=/home/emanoil/.gnupg/gpg-agent-info-maistor
> > /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/keytouchd-launch
> > /usr/bin/startkde emanoil   6984     1  0 Feb26 ?        00:00:00
> > kgpg -session
> > 10e1d0db73000122637470600000069520026_1235636586_910379
> > emanoil  25512 24303  0 04:14 pts/8    00:00:00 grep gpg
>
> I have a much shorter list:
>
> ps -fu `id -un` | grep gpg
> anne      2871     1  0 11:05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent -s
> --daemon anne      2989     1  0 11:06 ?        00:00:01 kgpg
> -session 104141310000123427948300000056040013_1234811693_685431
> anne      3345  3257  0 11:13 pts/1    00:00:00 grep gpg
>
> > man gpg-agent
> >
> > check also
> >
> > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
> >
> > perhaps it helps you
>
> All checked.  The config files are exactly the same as on other boxes
> where I don't see the problem.
>
> > for me kmail uses exatcly the keys from the .gnupg keyring file
> >
> > it's working just fine
>
> Yes, kmail seems to be working fine.  Kgpg also does whatever I ask
> it to.  It also adds to its management page any keys that I import
> either through kgpg or the CLI.  What it doesn't do is display the
> keys that kmail has automatically imported.  This is a problem I'm
> only seeing on this one, Fedora10, installation.
>
> Hmm - just realised that many recent message have the following:
>
> Message was signed on 02/02/2009 01:43 with unknown key 0xsomething.
> The validity of the signature cannot be verified.
> Status: No public key to verify the signature
>
> I guess that kmail is not respecting the setting to import the
> signatures, if all recent 'new' sigs are like this.  Maybe that's a
> packaging bug that needs to be reported.

"keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve" is an option of gpg. I'm not aware 
of this setting being available in KMail's configuration dialog, but I 
only checked KMail 1.9.x. Maybe in KDE 4.2 it is also made available in 
KMail's configuration dialog.


Regards,
Ingo
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