On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I'm having a problem in Evolution (3.18.5.2) but suspect that
it's
really something in my GPG setup. When I try to sign and encrypt a
message, I get:
Could not create message.
Because "gpg: skipped "XXXXXXXX": No secret key
gpg: signing failed: No secret key
", you may need to select different mail options.
I have used GPG in the past with the same key (also from Evolution)
without any problem. Both my own and the destination address are in
my
keyring.
When I try to use Seahorse to sign a key, it tells me I have no
secret
key to do this with, which looks like the same error.
So what does "no secret key" mean? All keys in the keyring were
generated by GPG as public/private pairs, so I don't understand
what's
going on.
Not sure this helps, but...
I was able to get that message when I created a reply to this group. I
then moved over to my inbox to create a new message and was able to
sign it. The trouble for me was clear from the error since I use a non
standard e-mail for this list and that was not in my GPG settings.
My error:
Because "gpg: skipped "fedoraproject.org(a)wombatz.com": No secret key
gpg: signing failed: No secret key
", you may need to select different mail options.
--
Doug H.