Re: [Evolution] GPG integration is good, but questions remain

[Jeffrey Stedfast<fejj ximian com>]

On 13 Feb 2001 14:57:48 -0800, Karel P Kerezman wrote:
> I did eventually get the GPG to work... turns out I'm a bit of an idiot.
> I was trying to use a keypair for kerezman kgon com when I should have
> been using rael zero kgon com 's keypair. Whoops. Once I got around that
> little snafu it started behaving nicely. I can sign, and as long as I've
> got my ~/.gnupg/options file pointing to the wwwkeys.us.pgp.net instead
> of search.keyserver.net I can even get it to download sigs for email I
> read from other list members. For instance, Sejal Patel's sig came down
> just fine, and reads as "This message is digitally signed but can not be
> proven to be authentic." Which is, of course, as it should be since we
> haven't signed one another's keys. (There's a thought... an Evo
> keysigning party? Nevermind, I'm too busy too.) Dan Berger's pubkey
> hasn't been submitted to the pgp.net keyservers, so didn't automagically
> download.
>
> I'm curious: Where is Evo getting the "red text" for the digital
> signature section of an email I'm reading (one assumes stout), and why
> does it complain "gpg: cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured"?
> Oddly enough, it doesn't offer that complaint for the public key that
> gpg wasn't able to retrieve.

Evolution gets the red text from stderr or stdout, I forget which :-)
I'm not sure what's causing the tty error message, someone mentioned
that it was due to me possibly not using batch mode, yet I am. So I
dunno. 

Jeff