Re: GPG signing problem

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On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 09:48 -0700, Doug H. wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having a problem in Evolution (3.18.5.2) but suspect that it's
> > really something in my GPG setup. When I try to sign and encrypt a
> > message, I get:
> > 
> >     Could not create message.
> > 
> >     Because "gpg: skipped "XXXXXXXX": No secret key
> >     gpg: signing failed: No secret key
> >     ", you may need to select different mail options.
> > 
> > I have used GPG in the past with the same key (also from Evolution)
> > without any problem. Both my own and the destination address are in
> > my
> > keyring.
> > 
> > When I try to use Seahorse to sign a key, it tells me I have no
> > secret
> > key to do this with, which looks like the same error.
> > 
> > So what does "no secret key" mean? All keys in the keyring were
> > generated by GPG as public/private pairs, so I don't understand
> > what's
> > going on.
> 
> Not sure this helps, but...
> 
> I was able to get that message when I created a reply to this group.
>  I
> then moved over to my inbox to create a new message and was able to
> sign it.  The trouble for me was clear from the error since I use a
> non
> standard e-mail for this list and that was not in my GPG settings.

The address I'm using to send the mail (and hence to sign it) is one of
those in my keyring. I've tried using both with the actual address and
the 8-digit ID string to select the signing key. Both give the same
error.

poc
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