Kmail and gpg

Hi:

I am using kmail 1.9.1 under KDE 3.5.1 on Freebsd 6.1 with 
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2.2

When I receive a gpg signed message for which I don't have
the key on my 
keyring, kmail flags it as "No public key
available" When I manually check 
for the key on pgp.mit.edu, I find it, and if I manually
import that key into 
my keyring, kmail is happy.

Under Crypto Backends ----> OpenPGP -----> Configure
-----> OpenPGP

I have entered hkp://pgp.mit.edu I have also tried
x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu and 
several other public hkp servers. 

Shouldn't kmail fetch the public key? Am I just using bad
public servers? Is 
there a bug in my kmail?

TIA
Bob
 
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On Wednesday 23 August 2006 08:25, Bob Richards wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am using kmail 1.9.1 under KDE 3.5.1 on Freebsd 6.1
with
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2.2
>
> When I receive a gpg signed message for which I don't
have the key on my
> keyring, kmail flags it as "No public key
available" When I manually check
> for the key on pgp.mit.edu, I find it, and if I
manually import that key
> into my keyring, kmail is happy.
>
> Under Crypto Backends ----> OpenPGP ----->
Configure -----> OpenPGP
>
> I have entered hkp://pgp.mit.edu I have also tried
x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu and
> several other public hkp servers.
>
> Shouldn't kmail fetch the public key? Am I just using
bad public servers?
> Is there a bug in my kmail?

Maybe it expects a http URL, e.g. one of the wwwkeys 
servers

Cheers,
Kevin

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Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:25 pm, Bob Richards wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am using kmail 1.9.1 under KDE 3.5.1 on Freebsd 6.1
with
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2.2
>
> When I receive a gpg signed message for which I don't
have the key on my
> keyring, kmail flags it as "No public key
available" When I manually check
> for the key on pgp.mit.edu, I find it, and if I
manually import that key
> into my keyring, kmail is happy.

On my Sarge system (KMail 1.7.2/KDE 3.3.2) and gpg 1.4.1, I
have an entry in 
the ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:

#  auto-key-retrieve = automatically fetch keys as needed
from the keyserver
#                     when verifying signatures or when
importing keys that
#                     have been revoked by a revocation key
that is not
#                     present on the keyring.
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve verbose

Auto-retrieval works fine for me, and I think that entry in
the gpg.conf file 
does it.  Of course as Philip says you need to specify a
keyserver in the 
same file.  Mine reads:

keyserver x-hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

Beware though, I now have 1300 keys and counting.

Pete
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