[Enigmail] secret key needed?

Christopher M. Logan chrismikall at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 20:14:11 PDT 2007


i also want to mention that i only get this problem with this one
sender.  normally the ID's listed are ones that i see in my Key
Management window.  But in this case i don't.

Christopher M. Logan wrote:
> i received an e-mail from a friend, indicated by (from) and he sent this
> same e-mail to 3 others.  So the to: field has my name plus 3 others
> total 4 recipients.
> indicated by (to1, to2, to3, to4).  only to3 and to4 where explicitly
> mentioned in the log below:
> 
> I'm getting the error: decryption failed: secret key not available
> 
> Why is it stating that i need a secret key?  Who's secret key is not
> available?
> 
> 
> enigmail> C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe --charset utf8  --batch
> --no-tty --
> status-fd 2 -d --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID DFFF3B09, created 2007-05-09
>       "from <removed>"
> gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID FA8BBCCA
> gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 5EAE6877
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID E036B63B, created 2007-03-15
>       "to3 <removed>"
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID EB690C8B, created 2007-05-07
>       "to4 <removed>"
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> enigmail.js: Enigmail.decryptMessageEnd: Error in command execution
> 
> -Christopher


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