[MlMt] GPG problems

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Apr 16 23:46:05 EDT 2020


On 16 Apr 2020, at 22:20, Philip Paeps wrote:

> On 2020-04-12 12:04:50 (+0800), Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> I'm also running gpg via Homebrew and it seems to work for me (on 
> 5682).
>
> My gpg from Homebrew also supports --compliance.
>
> ```[614] (philip at twoflower)~% brew info gpg
> gnupg: stable 2.2.20 (bottled)
> GNU Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) package
> https://gnupg.org/
> /usr/local/Cellar/gnupg/2.2.20 (134 files, 11.2MB) *
>   Poured from bottle on 2020-04-15 at 14:32:03
> From: 
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gnupg.rb
> ==> Dependencies
> Build: pkg-config ✔
> Required: adns ✔, gettext ✔, gnutls ✔, libassuan ✔, libgcrypt 
> ✔, libgpg-error ✔, libksba ✔, libusb ✔, npth ✔, pinentry 
> ✔```
>
> Last time I had weird GnuPG issues, Benny suggested I should run 
> MailMate from a terminal.  I think that will also print gpg stderr.

Per a later note, I tried that. It showed that MailMate is invoking
gpg with an option the Homebrew version doesn't support.


         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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