[Enigmail] Enigmail errors on Vista Ultimate

[John Clizbe]

Subba Rao wrote:
> Hello Olav,
> 
> My GPG.conf has only the key servers list.  It is a short list too.
> 
> ===================
> keyserver  x-hkp://horowitz.surfnet.nl
> keyserver  x-hkp://certserver.pgp.com
> keyserver  x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://europe.keys.pgp.com
> keyserver  x-hkp://www.dk.pgp.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://www.keyserver.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://wwwkeys.cz.pgp.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://wwwkeys.dk.pgp.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://wwwkeys.es.pgp.net
> keyserver  x-hkp://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net
> 
> keyserver  x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
> #honor-http-proxy
> default-key 5D5F91F8
> comment ""

While probably not related to the problem at hand, there are a couple things
wrong in this gpg.conf.

1) GnuPG _does_not_ support iterating over a list of keyservers. It will use the
last one specified. In this case, pgp.mit.edu - not a good choice - old
out-of-date unmaintained software known to break certain features of modern keys.

Consider replacing/commenting-out all those  with a single

	keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net

'--keyserver foo' specified on the command line will override whatever is in
gpg.conf. So if one is set in the lower text box of Enigmail's keyserver tab
(under Advanced), that one will be used instead.

2) If you don't want any comment lines, want you want instead of 'comment ""' is
'no-comments'.

The default behavior is not to emit comments, so unless on is specified in
Enigmail's preferences, nothing is needed at all if you wish no comment lines.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
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