Kmail & GPG: need help in setting up
Prior to motherboard failure and reinstall/upgrade, I had gpg working fine
with my kmail (somewhat older version). Now I cannot seem to get it to work,
even attempting to follow the kde howto on this.
Presently using kmail 1.7.1 on 2.6.8 kernel, Debian sarge. I have latest
available (in testing) gnupg and kgpg. I have put my old pubring and secring
key files in ~/.gnupg and have run gpg --rebuild-keydb-caches per
instructions on the kde/gpg page:
http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html
Running kgpg -k shows everything apparently OK with the keys.
I was not able to install the "OpenPGP part of Ägypten II" per the howto
page...
seems libksba was missing another error file or something (don't have the name
handy) and aborted the make. So that is one problem I need to resolve. It
does not compile according to the howto page instructions. Ver. 0.9.9 was
obtained from the site listed on the howto page. Didn't need to do this
install before when I was using earlier KDE and kmail -- is it needed now?
Trying kmail, I get under configuring kmail, security, crypto backends
"OpenPGP (gpg)" in bold letters and the box checked and a grayed out S/MIME
(failed) beneath it. In trying to encrypt an outgoing message, I get the
error message:
"You have requested that messages be encrypted to yourself, but the currently
selected identity does not define an (OpenPGP or S/MIME) encryption key to
use for this.
Please select the key(s) to use in the identity configuration."
I'm not sure what to do. The identity I have (only one / default) is listed
with a key in the key table shown by kgpg -k.
All in all, as you can tell, I'm totally confused as to how to attack this
problem. I may, due to lack of experience, be making this a more difficult
task than it really is. Pointers would be welcome.
Don
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