On Friday 27 May 2011 07:10:58 Andreas Heinlein wrote: > Am 26.05.2011 21:26, schrieb Charly Avital: > > In Thunderbird, key usage is set in 'Per Recipient rules', that is not > > the Address Book. > > > >> > Can someone please explain to me how this could be happening, and what > >> > I need to do to correct it? Should I remove his old key from my > >> > keyring? If I do, I assume that I won't be able to read his older > >> > messages. > > > > You don't have to remove his "old" public key from your keyring. > > > > You have to edit "Per Recipient Rules" so that your friend's new public > > key (in your public keyring) is linked to his User ID (e-mail address), > > and used to encrypt to him. > > Thunderbird (or the enigmail extension you're most likely speaking of) > uses the mail addresses on the keys UID to choose which key to use. If > there is more than one key with the same mail address on the keyring, > engimails behaviour becomes somewhat unpredictable and sometimes chooses > the old key, sometimes the new one. > > You could either override it with explicit recipient rules, or remove > the old key from the keyring. Since you said the old key became > "corrupt", I see no point in keeping it anyway. > I eventually found where I could disable the key both in Thunderbird and in KMail, so all is now well.
Thanks to all who answered. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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