[Enigmail] Please help me

[John Clizbe]

Endgame wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> I'm so glad to hear from you!!!!   Thank You!
> 
> I was not able to salvage my key ring.  When I reloaded enigmail I
> generated new keys.  Yet when I tested it by sending an email from one
> account Phillip59 at comcast.net to another Endgame59 at comcast .net it would
> not decrypt.  To make matters worse someone took my revocation disk for
> my old keys.  I've been in a panic and now fear that I've tinkered with
> my settings and may have more problems. When I try to decrypt I get the
> fallowing message:

All whoever took your disk of revocation certs for your old keys can do is
revoke them. Something that should be done, but you obviously cannot.

Anything encrypted to your old keys is *LOST*. Sorry, end of game, Thanks for
playing.

I am almost certain that if John Moore worked with you before, he instructed you
to backup a copy of of your keyring files, but *at minimum* secring.gpg, and
store it someplace safe. Ditto for any revocation certificates.

> 
> gpg command line and output:
> C:\\Program Files\\GNU\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe --charset utf8  --batch --no-tty
> --status-fd 2 --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve 

> --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net, subkeys.pgp.net, pgp.mit.edu,
> ldap://certserver.pgp.com 

There's one of your problems. OpenPGP Preferences --> Advanced --> Keyserver.

In the second text box, "Automatically download keys for signature verification
from the following _keyserver_:". Note it DOES NOT say "keyservers". Remove all
but one name and try again. I'd suggest keeping pool.sks-keyservers.net

> -d --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent usage: gpg [options] [filename]

Please do not top post.
-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

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