mutt+gpg: signature verification reports 'PGP signature could NOT be verified'
I am using mutt 1.4.1i under Mandrake Linux 9.2 (full version info is
below). I have followed the instructions in gpg.rc on making mutt
compatible with gpg.
When verifying a well-signed message, mutt will present the successful
gpg output, e.g.,
[-- Attachment #1 --]
[-- Type: multipart/signed, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 1.1K --]
[-- PGP output follows (current time: Thu 29 Jan 2004 03:36:43 PM EST) --]
gpg: Signature made Thu 29 Jan 2004 02:28:29 PM EST using DSA key ID 6490CC10
gpg: Good signature from "Peter Møller Neergaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter Møller Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter Møller Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter Møller Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter M\xf8\x6cler Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter M\xf8\x6cler Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "[jpeg image of size 5212]"
[-- End of PGP output --]
[-- The following data is signed --]
...
[-- End of signed data --]
but in the message area at the bottom it will report:
PGP signature could NOT be verified.
I have in vain tried running
mutt -F /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.1i/samples/gpg.rc
to ensure that it was not something else in my setup conflicting with
the gpg.rc setup. (That was the best advise I could get from the
following 3 year old thread:
http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0108/msg00392.html.)
I have also tested that the error codes are correct when run from a
command line:
pan:~ > /usr/bin/gpg --no-verbose --quiet --batch --output - --verify
sign2.txt msg.txt
gpg: Signature made Thu 29 Jan 2004 03:11:34 PM EST using DSA key ID 6490CC10
gpg: Good signature from "Peter Møller Neergaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter Møller Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter Møller Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter Møller Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter M\xf8\x6cler Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "Peter M\xf8\x6cler Neergaard <turtle@xxxxxx>"
gpg: aka "[jpeg image of size 5212]"
pan:~ > echo $?
0
I would appreciate suggestions on how to fix the problem.
Best
/Peter
My version info is here:
pan:~ > mutt -v
Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.4.22-26mdk (i686) [using ncurses 5.3]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
patch-1.4.1.rr.compressed.1
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