Kmail not importing gpg signatures correctly [solved]

[Brian McKee]

On Saturday 27 May 2006 23:33, James Gray wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 13:51, Brian McKee wrote:
> > 	I'm using an up to date version of Dapper-Kubuntu and Kmail.
> > If I manually import a gpg key (via seahorse or cmdline) then Kmail
> > handles gpg signatures fine.  But if I look at an email that I don't have
> > the public key imported for, I just get
> >
> > > Message was signed on blah blah with unknown key blah blah.
> > > The validity of the signature cannot be verified.
> > > Status: No public key to verify the signature
>
> Try running "kgpg" - AFAIK it's the glue that sticks all this GPG stuff
> together within the KDE suite.

Aha !

I've twiddled bunches with this, but I suspect the real secret was
(drum roll please......)

edit ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and uncomment
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

which seems kinda sensible now don't it.....

And to think all the time I spent mucking about with various GUIs.

Brian

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