KMail and Kgpg not playing nicely together

[Anne Wilson]

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.

Anne

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