Evolution and GPG signing?

[Michael Miles]

On 03/21/2010 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote:
> I have a problem with Evolution email signing on send that I can't
> solve. GPG signature on receive seems fine from mail that I have sent
> from a Thunderbird client, and it has a GPG line with "Valid
> signature".
>
> For a long time now I have been using Thunderbird with the enigmail
> extension to send and receive signed and/or encrypted mail - perfectly
> successfully.
>
> I decided to give Evolution a try - mostly it works, including syncing
> caldav calendars nicely.  I then set up GPG in the security section
> and selected my key ID. Then I sent a test mail that was GPG signed.
> In the Sent mail folder the outgoing mail in Evolution looks normal
> and within Evolution it says that the mail was signed just fine (i.e.
> Valid signature). However when this mail is received in Thunderbird
> the top strip on the mail (within Thunderbird) is pink instead of
> green, and the OpenPGP status says "Error - signature verification
> failed; click on 'Details' button for more information " - clicking on
> the details gives the Security Info as
>
> "OpenPGP Security Info
>
> Error - signature verification failed
>
> gpg command line and output:
> /usr/bin/gpg
> gpg: Signature made Sun 21 Mar 2010 11:40:25 AM GMT using RSA key ID XXXXXX
> gpg: BAD signature from "xxxxxxxxx (New rsa key)<mike at my-email-server.com>"
>
> Has anyone else come across this behaviour and if so do you know what
> it needed to make GPG signing behave normally?
>
> Thanks
>
>    


This is how I solved my Evolution problem....... Use Thunderbird