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#40118
27.0.90; Signing emails with gpg
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Reported by: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas <at> skimble.plus.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:52:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: fixed
Found in version 27.0.90
Fixed in versions 27.2, 28.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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>>>>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 06:33:39 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:
Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> I donʼt know. Lars? (and why only for signing and not encrypting?)
>>
>> commit 9c81149ae9165b0f017d60d141221b340879baef
>> Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Date: Wed Oct 9 21:55:41 2019 +0200
>>
>> Make mml-secure-epg-sign bug out if we can't find an identity
>>
>> * lisp/gnus/mml-sec.el (mml-secure-epg-sign): Bug out if we
>> couldn't find anything to sign with instead of silently pretending
>> to sign.
Lars> It's odd that the commit isn't tied to a bug report, because I remember
Lars> twiddling with this stuff as a result of a report?
Lars> Anyway, I think it's correct to bug out here if we can't find a signer,
Lars> but the error message is, as you note, somewhat wrong.
I donʼt think itʼs correct: previous to this change, telling gnus to
sign an email would result in gpg using your default key, which in 99%
of the cases is the right thing to do. The 1% know how to override it.
Hence my strong desire to set
mml-secure-{smime,openpgp}-sign-with-sender to t. Or do the query
thing I proposed a patch for earlier. Or update the message.
In that order of preference, I think.
Lars> I think. As you note, it's odd that it's only doing this when signing
Lars> and not encrypting.
Thatʼs a separate issue. And proobably only affects 1% of the 1% :-)
Robert
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