GPG and evolution: email address and different key

Hi,

Recently I have been trying to use GPG with evolution. I was able to use
GPG to encrypt and/or sign messages in Thunderbird and Enigmail
successfully. However, Evolution seems to be lacking quite a bit of
functionality.

In Thunderbird, I could send a message to say Mr. X at x@nowhere.org
while using his key: X The Great (personal key) x@somewhereelse.org.
What happens is when I try to "send" the email, Thunderbird says that it
couldn't find a key associated with the x@nowhere.org address and
presents me with different choices, I choose x@somwhereelse.org and off
goes the email.

However, Evolution just refuses to send the message saying that it can't
find the key associated with x@nowhere.org. It never asks if I wan't to
specify a different key.

Any suggestion how to get around this problem? Or am I missign something
in Evolution?

regards,
->HS

On 2004-09-05, H. S. <g_reate_xcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Recently I have been trying to use GPG with evolution. I was able to use
> GPG to encrypt and/or sign messages in Thunderbird and Enigmail
> successfully. However, Evolution seems to be lacking quite a bit of
> functionality.
>
> In Thunderbird, I could send a message to say Mr. X at x@nowhere.org
> while using his key: X The Great (personal key) x@somewhereelse.org.
> What happens is when I try to "send" the email, Thunderbird says that it
> couldn't find a key associated with the x@nowhere.org address and
> presents me with different choices, I choose x@somwhereelse.org and off
> goes the email.
>
> However, Evolution just refuses to send the message saying that it can't
> find the key associated with x@nowhere.org. It never asks if I wan't to
> specify a different key.
>
> Any suggestion how to get around this problem? Or am I missign something
> in Evolution?

Probably not the resolution you're looking for but...

Can you encrypt it before mailing it, or accessing it with you mail
program? That is, type your message in a text file, encrypt it, then
mail to your target with the message as an attachment? This is what I
do if my mailer I'm using doesn't support GPG-

emacs message.txt
gpg --list-keys | grep 'you@your.home.org'
Key XXXXX/123ABCD Your Buddy <you@your.home.org>
.... ..... .... ... .... ..
gpg -r 123ABCD -se message.txt
mail -a message.txt.gpg -r "me@home.org" -s "Secrect message :P" \
you@your.home.org

(then)
Type your mail message, ^D to end:


Hi you, here is your secret message attached!

^D

Sending mail, blah,blah, blah...



It's not pretty, but it works. I use the basic "mail" (or nail, as
it's really called, I guess) utility for this, on the command line.


--
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
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Apparently, _jayjwa_, on 09/06/04 03:10,typed:

> Can you encrypt it before mailing it, or accessing it with you mail
> program? That is, type your message in a text file, encrypt it, then
> mail to your target with the message as an attachment? This is what I
> do if my mailer I'm using doesn't support GPG-
>
> emacs message.txt
> gpg --list-keys | grep 'you@your.home.org'
> Key XXXXX/123ABCD Your Buddy <you@your.home.org>
> .... ..... .... ... .... ..
> gpg -r 123ABCD -se message.txt
> mail -a message.txt.gpg -r "me@home.org" -s "Secrect message :P" \
> you@your.home.org
>
> (then)
> Type your mail message, ^D to end:
>
>
> Hi you, here is your secret message attached!
>
> ^D
>
> Sending mail, blah,blah, blah...
>
>
>
> It's not pretty, but it works. I use the basic "mail" (or nail, as
> it's really called, I guess) utility for this, on the command line.

Yes, this is one way. I am actually playing with this at my university
where we have Squirrelmail and I have requested that it's GPG plugin be
installed. Till it is installed, yours is the method I have to use to
get GPG. I was only interested in Evolution since I am exploring it's
calendar and appointments stuff at home (Debian). Unfortunately, the GPG
support is lacking to a large extent. Thunderbird, however, seems to
works fine.

Thnaks for your comments,
->HS

> Yes, this is one way. I am actually playing with this at my university
> where we have Squirrelmail and I have requested that it's GPG plugin be
> installed. Till it is installed, yours is the method I have to use to
> get GPG. I was only interested in Evolution since I am exploring it's
> calendar and appointments stuff at home (Debian). Unfortunately, the GPG
> support is lacking to a large extent. Thunderbird, however, seems to
> works fine.

I use emacs[*] with mailcrypt and crypt++.
I have been looking for more advanced gpg support for evolution.
Can you post the plugin source (e.g. URL)?
[*] emacs = e(ditor +) mac(ro)s
crypt++ = macro (= plugin) that provide interface to gpg/pgp/...
mailcrypt is a macro that provides crypt++ interface to rmail/...

ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/misc/crypt++.el
news:gnu.emacs.sources

TIA,
--
Dr. Robert J. Meier
Server Vantage Agent Infrastructure

Apparently, _Dr. Robert Meier_, on 09/06/04 15:25,typed:

>
>
> I use emacs[*] with mailcrypt and crypt++.
> I have been looking for more advanced gpg support for evolution.
> Can you post the plugin source (e.g. URL)?

The plugin I mentioned earlier was Enigmail working with Thunderbird and
Mozilla (I guess with version 1.7 and later). The GPG support in
Evolution is built in, I am not aware of any plugin there.

Enigmail links seem not to be working, I could only get this for the moment:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...ions/enigmail/

->HS

>[*] emacs = e(ditor +) mac(ro)s
> crypt++ = macro (= plugin) that provide interface to gpg/pgp/...
> mailcrypt is a macro that provides crypt++ interface to rmail/...
>
> ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/misc/crypt++.el
> news:gnu.emacs.sources
>
> TIA,