Trouble decrypting multipart/encrypted

Eric Skoglund eric at pagefault.se
Tue Nov 29 09:43:28 PST 2016


David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Eric Skoglund <eric at pagefault.se> writes:
>
>> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, --verify only works with one of the structured output formats
>>> (json or sexp). I suppose that's probably a documentation bug.
>>>
>>> try
>>>
>>> % notmuch show --format=json --verify $message
>>
>> Yes that did work, getting "sigstatus : [ { 'status': 'good' .... }]".
>
> OK, so notmuch can talk to gpg. I'm only guessing, but it seems like
> some kind of problem with pinentry, or access to private keys. One
> potential issue is having multiple versions of gpg installed.
>
> %  notmuch config get crypto.gpg_path
>
> should give the same path as the gpg you normally use (so, 2.1.13 as you
> said).
>

Thank you David! Seems like notmuch used the gpg1 binary (that fedora
has installed by default also), I switched the gpg binary to gpg2 and it
now works like a charm!

Thank you so much for your help.

// Eric Skoglund


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