[Enigmail] Please help me

[Phillip Reynes]

John Clizbe wrote:
> Endgame wrote:
>> Hi John
>>
>> I'm so glad to hear from you!!!!   Thank You!
>>
>> I was not able to salvage my key ring.  When I reloaded enigmail I
>> generated new keys.  Yet when I tested it by sending an email from one
>> account Phillip59 at comcast.net to another Endgame59 at comcast .net it would
>> not decrypt.  To make matters worse someone took my revocation disk for
>> my old keys.  I've been in a panic and now fear that I've tinkered with
>> my settings and may have more problems. When I try to decrypt I get the
>> fallowing message:
> 
> All whoever took your disk of revocation certs for your old keys can do is
> revoke them. Something that should be done, but you obviously cannot.
> 
> Anything encrypted to your old keys is *LOST*. Sorry, end of game, Thanks for
> playing.
> 
> I am almost certain that if John Moore worked with you before, he instructed you
> to backup a copy of of your keyring files, but *at minimum* secring.gpg, and
> store it someplace safe. Ditto for any revocation certificates.
> 
>> gpg command line and output:
>> C:\\Program Files\\GNU\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe --charset utf8  --batch --no-tty
>> --status-fd 2 --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve 
> 
>> --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net, subkeys.pgp.net, pgp.mit.edu,
>> ldap://certserver.pgp.com 
> 
> There's one of your problems. OpenPGP Preferences --> Advanced --> Keyserver.
> 
> In the second text box, "Automatically download keys for signature verification
> from the following _keyserver_:". Note it DOES NOT say "keyservers". Remove all
> but one name and try again. I'd suggest keeping pool.sks-keyservers.net
> 
>> -d --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent usage: gpg [options] [filename]
> 
> Please do not top post.
> 
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> 
I did as you sugested and kept only pool.sks-keyservers.net.
I went back to the earlier test message I sent to myself and was still
unable to decrypt it.  I have two published keys one for
Phillip59 at comcasr.net (starts b4b...) and the other for
endgame59 at comcast.net (77b...).

Phil
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