Re: [Ghm-discuss] How to your keys ?

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Alfred,

there were several problems.

#1 was that my thunderbird version was too old so that it didn't support 
the enigmail add-on
that was recommended for reading (some of) the encrypted emails that I 
received lately.

#2 after upgrading thunderbird to version 31.0 I could install the 
enigmail add-on but
HTML in emails didn't work anymore. Took al while to figure that 
enigmail has disabled it.
After that thunderbird was asking for the gpg passphrase almost for 
every email even though
I told it t do that only every 600 minutes.

#3 after installing pius (and running the commands proposed in Andreas' 
pdf slides), It couldn't send
emails to my email provider (Telekom). I tried a number of variants for 
the SMTP related pius command line
line options, but could not get it working. tcpdump shows that the TCP 
connection to the SMTP server is just
hanging.

#4 I then tried to start gpg manually with the same options that pius 
showed when using -d -v.
I gives me file open errors without a reason (the file would be writble; 
if I touch the file then gpg complains
that the file exists and if I remove it then it complains that the file 
cannot be opened.


No - I did not look at the link below, but briefly browsing over it now 
still leaves me puzzled what I am
supposed to do. I don't mind doing things manually like copying files 
into an email attachment. But this
is getting far too cumbersome for me.

/// Jürgen


On 08/20/2014 01:32 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>     after having spent almost a full day on trying to get pius and gpg
>     working I am giving up.
>
> Have you tried following the GNU Privacy Guard Handbook?
>
>    https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x56.html
>
> Where do you get stuck?