[Enigmail] Mac plug-in problem

[John Clizbe]

James Rome wrote:
> John Moore said:
> Why do You have to Navigate _to_ Your Public Keyring in order to Import
> into it?  All You need to navigate to is the Key You wish to Import.
> Once it is Imported it will be added to the Public Keyring. [hence the
> term: import]. 
> 
> Because I am importing the keyring into Enigmail that I put there on the
> command line gnupg. That is also where I store other people/s public keys.
> That seems like the logical place for this. Granted, I could move these
> elsewhere, but I don't think users should have to do things like this. It
> could be fixed if the file dialog let you type in the path.

No. You. Are. Not. Importing. Anything. /Into/. Enigmail.

Enigmail is nothing more than an interface to and from GnuPG. There is no crypto
support built into it at all. You ask Enigmail to do X, it builds a command and
passes it off to GnuPG for processing, then Enigmail filters the output and
displays the results for you.

I'm at the same loss as John Moorre trying to understand why you are insisting
on making things more difficult than they need be. You do not need one location
for your public keys and another for everyone else's. ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg is
all you need and GnuPG finds it without you needing to give it any assistance.

If you are passing GnuPG the location of a keyring file, you are doing something
you don't need to, and those times are when you are most likely making a mistake.

If you did things at the command line, or are passing additional command line
parameters to Enigmail, please be kind enough to tell us what you did; ie, the
exact commands or additional options.

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