[Enigmail] Key selection

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 04:45:34 PST 2008


On 23.11.2008 05:47, Faramir wrote:
>    Maybe I am wrong, but I think you misunderstood how OpenPGP works...
> (or maybe I misunderstood what you want to do). I saw a message where
> you say you have both private and public key, and that is right, you
> have them... but those are _your_ keys. To send an encrypted message,
> you _need_ the recipient's public key (that is the reason why they are
> "public").

I understand that, don't worry. I just want to make TB send signed
e-mails like I did earlier with Evolution.

On 23.11.2008 08:49, Olav Seyfarth wrote:

> Please make sure that Enigmail finds the correct GnuPG version
> and that it accesses the correct keyring. This may
> be an environment variable issue.
>
> You *did* explicitely set certain key to sign with
> in Account Settings->- ->OpenPGP->Select Key, didn't you?
> And you *can* sign plaintext from the
> command line (specifying that key)?

I think Enigmail does this good: "Using gpg executable /usr/bin/gpg to
encrypt and decrypt" - from About OpenPGP.

I have set the key in Account Settings.

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Best regards,
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
http://jakubrusinek.pl/


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