[MlMt] gpg2 error re OpenPGP messages

[Will Styler]

Erik,

Realize that GPGTools is separate software, downloadable elsewhere.  I've had GPG (which is GnuPG, which is a free-and-open-source version of PGP) installed for a long time for Mutt, and I assume that MailMate was just smart enough to read my configuration and figure it out.

It's not that I have a special copy of MailMate, just that I've set up GPG before, and as such, MailMate read it.

The issue of GPG messages being unverifiable without GPG is a universal one.  It's rather like if only one out of the 90 apples at the store has a label saying "Wash this apple, it may be coated in pesticides".  Naive buyers may assume that that Apple's different, rather than that that one apple is simply more honest, and all of them may be coated in pesticides.

Grandma, if using MM without GPGTools, may look at my message and go "Whoa, sketchy".  That's a risk I take when I sign mail.  But I assume that most of the people I talk with either a) Won't care or b) Will look into GPG Tools, or c) Have it installed, and will appreciate the assurances.

I appreciate the way MM handles the signatures.  It's a good way to raise awareness that such things exist.

Just my two cents,

Will



On 14 Nov 2013, at 10:07, Erik Mueller-Harder wrote:

> Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> It means that MailMate cannot verify the signature added by Will (the proof that he wrote the message).... You need to install GPGTools if you want MailMate to able to verify the signature.
>
> and Will Styler wrote:
>
>> I show my sent message as verified just fine. I've installed GPG using GPGTools, and Mailmate had no problem doing all the GPG-ish things I love, without any configuration.
>
> So because Will has sent this as a secure message and because I somehow have a copy of MailMate that doesn’t include GPGTools, I get a message that seems to imply that Will’s message is somehow less verifiable than all the messages that I get that *don’t* have any errors?
>
> This seems less than intuitive.
>
> What should I tell my wife or my mother-in-law when they see an error like this?
>
> And is there something I should do to make sure that my copy of MailMate supports GPG?  (And is it “GPG” or “PGP”?  I’d thought it was “PGP” for “pretty good privacy”.)
>
> Thanks for any further elucidation,
>
> — Erik
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