unable to decrypt a mail coming from apple mail

ng0 ng0 at we.make.ritual.n0.is
Fri Oct 14 20:28:31 CEST 2016


Stephan Beck <stebe at mailbox.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> ng0:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've just got an email where the X-Mailer is Apple Mail. It adds some
>> bits and pieces, is a 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding and I fail to
>> decrypt it with gpg --decrypt (applied to the email as a file and also
>> when applied to the BEGIN/END PGP block).
>> The key is imported, still valid and yet I get:
>> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
>> 
>> I'm running an unaltered Guix build here:
>> ng0 at shadowwalker ~$ gpg --version
>> gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13
>> libgcrypt 1.7.3
>
> have you checked the bug tracker at (1) ?
> There are several entries for
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key.
>
> when you enter this very phrase into the search entry mask.
>
> Maybe there you'll find what you are looking for.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stephan
>
> (1) https://bugs.gnupg.org
>
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>From the subjects of those 9 bugs I don't see how they are related to my
problem. Nevertheless I will read into them in the next days.

Thanks



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