[Enigmail] secret key needed?

[Christopher M. Logan]

John Clizbe wrote:

> 
> For you to decrypt mail he sends, you must have your secret key - we'll get to
> that shortly. You say you had to "recreate your key" - /exactly/ what did you
> do? Because it sounds like you have no secret key which would cause both
> decryption and signing to fail.
>
I had to reformat my drive and i lost all data.  So when i got
everything setup again i "recreated" my keys. I used a different
approach the second time around.. i installed GPG from
http://www.gnupg.org/ instead of gpg4win.  Then i used the command line
to generate the keys.

>> I tried to sign this response but i get:
>>
>> enigmail> C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe --charset utf8  --batch
>> --no-tty --
>> status-fd 2 --comment 'Using GnuPG with Mozilla -
>> http://enigmail.mozdev.org' -t
>>  --clearsign -u <chrismikall at gmail.com> --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent
>> gpg: skipped "<chrismikall at gmail.com>": secret key not available
> 
> Very useful. There would appear not to be a secret key that matches your email
> address. What does 'gpg --list-secret-keys' display from a command line prompt?
>
C:/Documents and Settings/Christopher/Application Data/gnupg\secring.gpg
------------------------------------------------------------------------
sec   1024D/644FC3D3 2007-06-08
uid                  Christopher M. Logan (CML) <e-mail_removed>
ssb   2048g/5C9B3602 2007-06-08


> Are your keyring files: pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, & trustdb.gpg; located where
> gpg "thinks" they should be? 'gpg--version' will display what gpg thinks is your
> home directory for GnuPG.
> 
C:\>gpg  --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.7
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: C:/Documents and Settings/Christopher/Application Data/gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2


The listing of files in gnupg:

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Christopher\Application Data\gnupg

07/07/2007  01:01 AM    <DIR>          .
07/07/2007  01:01 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/07/2007  01:01 AM            24,174 pubring.bak
07/07/2007  01:01 AM            24,174 pubring.gpg
07/09/2007  08:53 PM               600 random_seed
06/08/2007  01:48 AM             1,331 secring.gpg
07/07/2007  01:01 AM             2,000 trustdb.gpg