KMail and Kgpg not playing nicely together

[Rex Dieter]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 21:02:47 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
> wrote:
>>> On my F10 + 4.2 install I have a very recently created public keyring.  I
>>> manually imported half a dozen signatures.  Kgpg lists them, and KMail
>>> uses them.  Everything seemed fine.
>>>
>>> KMail is set to import signatures automatically.  I've seen it import
>>> quite a few since then, and the messages report the status of the
>>> signature.  However, those signatures are not seen by Kgpg - and never
>>> show up in the key management screen.
>>>
>>> I've discussed this on the kde-pim list.
>>> I've talked to a kgpg developer.
>>> I've talked to a kmail developer.
>>> I've asked on IRC #kontact.
>>>
>>> No-one seems to have any idea, other than the stock 'it must be fedora'
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Anne
>> As part of a class I tried to setup a gnupg and send an encrypted
>> email. KGPG was helpful (even though I used the console) but couldn't
>> get Kmail to properly encrypt with the receivers public key. Evolution
>> wasn't as picky. This was on Centos 5.2 however.
>>
> KMail is signing and encrypting without any problem.
> 
>> But basically, if I had to randomly guess, I'd assume that Kmail was
>> the problem.
> 
> You can't.  Neither the KMail devs nor the Kgpg ones know what's happening.  
> A kubuntu user is running kde 4.2 and kgpg is working correctly for him, but 
> that's the only thing I've managed to tie down.

rpm -q gnupg2 gnupg

Fedora's gpgme defaults to using gnupg2(/usr/bin/gpg2), maybe some parts 
of kmail/kgpg still depend on gnupg(1) somehow?

-- Rex