signed mail, and I don't have the public key..

[zander@microweb.nl]

Thanx, I set the 'default reader' to /full/path/gpg -d, which did the trick!

It really was that simple ;-)

by the way, retrieving the public key from the keyserver when needed, is
nothing short of a masterstroke!!


> I am in a very similar situation, saving that I use pine instead of elm,
> and that I do not use gpgpgp wrapper.  I simply edited the .pinerc file to
> use GPG as a filter for messages that contain the standard PGP markings.
> According to the documentation, `gpg --decrypt` takes the message from
> stdin, decrypts, and hands it back to stdout.  `gpg --verify` takes the
> messages from stdin, checks the sig, and /does not/ hand anything back to
> stdout, which is why your mail client shows a blank screen.  Pine did
> exactly the same thing for me.  To avoid having to suspend pine every time
> I wanted to check a sig (which loses its novelty /very/ quickly), I put
> together a small Perl script, which you are welcome to use.  If anyone
> cares to comment on it, feel free.
> 
> http://www.acu.cs.umb.edu/~dlh/gpgverify.pl
> 
> -dave
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 zander@microweb.nl wrote:
> 
> > I have been integrating gpg in my unix environment, using elm this meant
> > installing the gpgpgp wrapper.
> >
> > If I open an email which is signed, gpg tries to get the public key from the
> > keyserver (I used www.keyserver.net). This action failed, probably because the
> > public key was not there.
> >
> > After this, elm showed the output of gpg, this seemed to be an empty email!
> > with a message that the signature could not be found..
> >
> > This leaves me with the problem that I can not read signed messages, when I
> > don't have the public key. As I find this frustrating I wondered if anyone
> > has found a way to get past this.
> >
> >
> > Thanx
> > --
> > Thomas Zander                                                zander@microweb.nl
> > History repeats itself, it has to, nobody ever listens      OpenPGP key: 0588D5
> >
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> dlh@acu.cs.umb.edu
> http://www.cs.umb.edu
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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Thomas Zander                                                zander@microweb.nl
History repeats itself, it has to, nobody ever listens      OpenPGP key: 0588D5