KMail and OpenPGP

[Neil Williams]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:29, Timm Haug wrote:
> Hello,

Please send your public key to a public keyserver - I can't verify your 
signature at all if you don't make your public key public.

subkeys.pgp.net is probably best.

> I just wanted to ask if there is an easy way to enable KMail 1.6.2 to read
> PGP/MIME coded messages?

Yes. I'm using it!

The biggest problem is getting the gpg-agent to function properly. Once that 
is working, any other problems are trivial. What's your status (compiled or 
packages)? Which distribution? What have you done so far? What error did you 
get? Where are you stuck, precisely?

Need info!

> The manual at http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html is not
> up-to-date, at least it doesn't work on my computer.

You need gnupg1.9 instead of newpg but as you don't say which distribution you 
are using, I can't give you much more than that. The howto is usable and if 
you compile from source it is easier to get it working than by using 
packages. Check the GnuPG pages, under Project Aegypten, that's usually more 
up to date.
http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/development.en.html

> Will the ability to read PGP/MIME encoded messages be implemented in later
> versions of GnuPG?

It's not GnuPG at fault but yes, IIRC, GnuPG and KMail will work together 
better with regard to PGP/MIME in future releases.


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