[MlMt] GPG problems

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Sun Apr 12 00:04:50 EDT 2020


I found at least part of the problem: I’m running gpg via homebrew, and it doesn’t understand the —compliance option. Is there a workaround? (Aside: it would be nice if MailMate captured stderr from gpg invocations.)

--Steve Bellovin

Sent from an electronic toy. 

> On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:12 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> MailMate Build 6146 is unable to send GPG-encrypted or signed email, and it can't decrypt stuff sent to me. It says
> 
> Unable to decrypt OpenPGP message.
> Verify that you have the key necessary for decryption.
> 
> "Show Details" just gives a blank box. However, if I ⌘C the message and do
> 
> gpg -d <$pasted-message-file
> 
> it decrypts properly, and I can manually encrypt and sign messages with no trouble. GPG Keychain shows that my key and the other party's keys are valid, not expired, etc. Suggestions?
> 
> 
> --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> 
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