[Enigmail] No longer decrypting

[John Clizbe]

Kevin Coates wrote:
> 
> My working installation of Enigmail is no longer decrypting messages or
> able to verify signatures. It does ask for the password but the preview
> pane returns blank.
> 
> I am able to access my keyring in Enigmail's keymanager. Decrypting via
> GPGrelay or GPGShell's Tray Utility work fine.
> 
> I've restored the pgprules.xml from a backup, uninstalled and
> reinstalled both the current release and the nightly version to no
> avail. Enigmail's console shows an error (see last line):
> 
> =====
> enigmail> C:\GnuPG\gpg.exe --charset utf8  --batch --no-tty --status-fd
> 2 --keys
> erver-options auto-key-retrieve --keyserver Key-servers:
> pool.sks-keyservers.net
> , subkeys.pgp.net, pgp.mit.edu, ldap://certserver.pgp.com -d
> --passphrase-fd 0 -
> -no-use-agent
> usage: gpg [options] [filename]
> enigmail.js: Enigmail.decryptMessageEnd: Error in command execution
> =====

Well,

On first quick observation the keyserver value being passed from Enigmail's
preference panel is completely bogus.

--keyserver does not accept a string of entries, only a single value. I'd say
the spaces between server names is throwing-off GnuPG's parsing of the command line.

Open Enigmail's preferences. Click on Advanced. Click on the Keyserver tab.
It is OK to have a list of keyservers in the top entry.

The bottom selection "Automatically download keys for signature verification
from the following *keyserver*." Singular -- one name only.

pool.sks-keyservers.net is probably the best guess for a default keyserver.



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