Re: Seahorse agent and S/MIME

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <gilles dartiguelongue esiee org>]

Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 à 17:10 -0400, Peter Bloomfield a écrit :
> Dear List:
> 
> Hi!  I just subscribed...
> 
> I use the Balsa email agent, and usually sign messages with a PGP key.   
> Seahorse-agent handles the key nicely.
> 
> But...I'm trying to track down some "seahorse-agent[2002]: unrecognized  
> command: HAVEKEY" messages that have started showing up in  
> /var/log/messages (also an "ISTRUSTED" message).  Since they seem to  
> emanate from gpgsm (specifically gpgsm_agent_havekey in sm/call-agent.c),  
> I tried signing a message with an S/MIME key, and sure enough that logged  
> another such message.  Balsa popped up an error dialog with:
> 
> Send failed: Message could not be signed
> GpgSM: could not list keys for "my-name my isp": Unknown IPC command
> 
> So--does seahorse-agent not support S/MIME?  And if not, could it fail in  
> a nicer and more informative way?

running gnupg-2.0.12 or higher with an unpatched seahorse could be the
cause of your problem.