[Fwd: Re: HKP and firewalls]

[udo 'mju' fleckenstein]

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Heiko Teichmeier wrote:
| My test with engimail and your key failed with folowing messages:
| <--- snip --->
| Unable to receive public key
| gpg: blackhole.pca.dfn.de: host not found: ec=3D10110
| gpg: Schl=FCssel ist beim Schl=FCsselserver nicht erh=E4ltlich: No such=
 file
| or directory
| gpg: Anzahl insgesamt bearbeiteter Schl=FCssel: 0
| <--- snip --->
|
| Than I test it with your key from the commandline - it's working fine.
|
| Because the failure-message above say HOST NOT FOUND, I had think that
| it exist a problem with the DNS-Lookup, but from commandline it's
| working - now I think it is a *enigmail-problem !???*

indeed - it's a documented one :-)
i was just browsing enigmails site [while searching a changelog for the
new version] and found:
"7. Enigmail fails to access keyserver from behind a firewall?
If you are using HTTP proxy behind a firewall, you need to use GPG with
the "keyserver-options honor-http-proxy". It is essential to set not
only the environment variable "http_proxy" to point to the proxy server
but to also set the environment variable "ENIGMAIL_PASS_ENV=3Dhttp_proxy"=

before starting Mozilla and using Enigmail. This ensures that Enigmail
will pass the environment variable to GPG."
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/troubles.html

BTW: It's your key-id i used *smile*

to the enigmail-folks: Why using another environment variable? If
http_proxy is set, simply pass it - or do i miss some point?

cu,
- -udo
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