on. den 23. 03. 2016 klokka 19.24 (+0100) skreiv Tom:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2016, 19:02 +0100 schrieb Stig Roar Wangberg:
> > on. den 23. 03. 2016 klokka 08.14 (+0100) skreiv Milan Crha:
> > > On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 20:10 +0100, Stig Roar Wangberg wrote:
> > > > I'm trying (again) to send a crypted message, but I get the message that
> > > > Evolution is using sub-key instead of publi key. How can I change this,
> > > > please?
> > > 
> > >   Hi,
> > > the evolution only calls either gpg2 or gpg binary with some arguments
> > > and that's all. If you make the default behaviour of the gpg2 or gpg
> > > use public keys, not subkeys, then you'll make it working for the
> > > evolution too. Though I do not understand what is wrong with the
> > > subkey. I'd expect that gpg2/gpg knows well why it chose the subkey,
> > > instead of the public key (well, "public key", they both are public,
> > > when it's a subkey of the public key, no?).
> > >   Bye,
> > >   Milan
> > 
> > How exactly do I make it default? Please? Do I do it in the terminal, or
> > are the settings to be found here in Evolution, please?
> 
> GnuPG actually uses a signing-only key as the master key, and creates an
> encryption subkey automatically. Without a subkey for encryption, you
> can't have encrypted e-mails with GnuPG at all...
> (found at https://wiki.debian.org/Subkeys)

OK, thanks a lot! I understand. On my other laptop, I don't have this
problem. No problems encrypting and/or signing e-mails. Here, on this
laptop, I have problems sending encrypted e-mails. But I can't find out
why.

Stig

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