[Enigmail] Enigmail 'latched' onto invalide gpg key
Brendan Sullivan
b.sullivan83 at gmail.com
Mon May 25 09:17:17 PDT 2009
Hello all, I've recently tried to register a gpg key (first one ever)
and at the same time installed enigmail for Thunderbird. I didn't
realize enigmail would handle that for me, so at the cmd line I ran:
gpg --gen-key
and ran through the options and set it up and then :
gpg --server keyserver.ubuntu.com --send-keys
waited for my confirmation email, and in the mean time, setup enigmail
(via the initial wizard) with my new gpg key and associated it with my
primary email account.
When the confirmation email came I got a surprise. I must have mistyped
my ~25 character passphrase twice as I could not unlock the encrypted
confirmation email from the keyserver. At this point I didn't know about
revocation certificates so I just deleted the key and started over.
Registered the new key, updated my new key in enigmail and it
/decrypted/ my confirmation email just fine. However when i went to
compose an email and send it, I got the following error :
gpg command line and output:
/usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -t
--clearsign -u 0xD9084941 --use-agent
gpg: skipped "0xD9084941":secret key not available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available
Now, the problem is that D9084941 is that 'first key' that I do not have
the secret (or public) files for anymore....and no matter what I do I
can't get enigmail to use my new current key FOR SENDING email that is
setup and registered and works for decrypting mail in Thunderbird.
Does anyone have any ideas? Sorry for being so wordy, I'm really
confused as to what is not getting configured correctly. If you need any
more info please let me know.
Thanks
-Brendan
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