[gentoo-user] KMail and GnuPG plugin

[gentoo-user] KMail and GnuPG plugin

[Rafael Bugajewski]

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Hi all,

I have a problem with KMail regarding the GnuPG plugin. I think i just do not 
know how to use it and where to find documentation, so a little help would be 
useful.

The plugin itself works fine, I can send encrypted and signed messages, I get 
always a prompt in which I can enter my passphrase etc.

My only problem is if I receive signed messages from unknown identities. KMail 
puts the whole message into a yellow box and says that there is a unknown 
key. There is no possibility to search for the key and insert it, or is it 
and I do not know about it? It would be nice to add new keys directly from 
the KMail interface. If it is not possible, what is the fastest _and_ most 
user friendly way?

Greets,

Rafael Bugajewski

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Re: [gentoo-user] KMail and GnuPG plugin

[Christopher Cowart]

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Add the following lines to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:

keyserver  x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-disabled include-revoked \
  honor-keyserver-url 

(Except don't break the line in your conf)

The keyserver-option "auto-key-retrieve" tells gpg to try to get a key
from a keyserver whenever it's verifying a message but lacks the public
key on your keyring.

You can check 'man gpg' for more information about tweaking gpg's
behavior, but the options above will probably be just fine for your use.

-Chris


On 17:33 Sat 18 Feb     , Rafael Bugajewski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem with KMail regarding the GnuPG plugin. I think i just do not 
> know how to use it and where to find documentation, so a little help would be 
> useful.
> 
> The plugin itself works fine, I can send encrypted and signed messages, I get 
> always a prompt in which I can enter my passphrase etc.
> 
> My only problem is if I receive signed messages from unknown identities. KMail 
> puts the whole message into a yellow box and says that there is a unknown 
> key. There is no possibility to search for the key and insert it, or is it 
> and I do not know about it? It would be nice to add new keys directly from 
> the KMail interface. If it is not possible, what is the fastest _and_ most 
> user friendly way?
> 
> Greets,
> 
> Rafael Bugajewski



-- 
Christopher Cowart
Unix Systems Administrator
Residential Computing, UC Berkeley
"May all your pushes be popped"

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Re: [gentoo-user] KMail and GnuPG plugin

[Rafael Bugajewski]

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Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 22:44 schrieb Christopher Cowart:

> Add the following lines to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:
>
> keyserver  x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
> keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-disabled include-revoked \
>   honor-keyserver-url
>
> (Except don't break the line in your conf)

O.K., thanks, it works now like I want it to work.

> The keyserver-option "auto-key-retrieve" tells gpg to try to get a key
> from a keyserver whenever it's verifying a message but lacks the public
> key on your keyring.
>
> You can check 'man gpg' for more information about tweaking gpg's
> behavior, but the options above will probably be just fine for your use.

Thanks for the hint. I didn't think it was the gpg configuration, I thought I 
can solve my problem by configuring the gpg plugin somehow. I will check the 
man page for more details.


Greets,

Rafael Bugajewski

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