Signing mail with evolution

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sat Jun 10 12:46:38 UTC 2006


Pupeno,

I commented out the 'use-agent' line in my gpg.conf file some time ago,
which I think also solves this problem.

Regards,
Tony.

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:47 +0200, Pupeno wrote:
> For the record, the solution was:
> Install seahorse (using synaptinc, aptitude, apt-get, whatever)
> System->Preferences->Sessions, Startup programs, Add, update-notifier
> Thanks Fujitsu at #ubuntu.
> 
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:52 +0200, Pupeno wrote:
> > When trying to send GPG signed mail with Evolution I get the following
> > error:
> > 
> > Could not create message.
> > 
> > Because "gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
> > gpg: writing to `-'
> > gpg: DSA/SHA1 signature from: "D3D61A45 Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com>"
> > ", you may need to select different mail options.
> > 
> > I installed gnupg-agent, but the problem remains. Any ideas ?
> > Thanks.
> > -- 
> > Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> http://pupeno.com
> > 
> > 
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