[imp] PGP question

[Chris Hastie]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Rick Emery <rick at emery.homelinux.net> wrote
>When I receive a PGP signed email from someone not in my addressbook (from a
>mailing list, for example), the signature is not verified. I have tried
>pgp.mit.edu and search.keyserver.net for the public keyserver. Before tonight's
>cvs update, I was getting
>
>"Invalid email"
>
>Now, I'm getting
>
>"No pgpPublickey entry found for" followed by the person's email address
>
>If I go to either pgp.mit.edu or search.keyserver.net and search for the email
>address, there is an entry for this person on both sites.
>
>Do I have something mis-configured? Where should I look to try to 
>troubleshoot this?
>
I was looking at something similar yesterday that appeared to be a 
particular problem with PGP signed blocks embedded in plain text, as 
opposed to PGP/MIME messages.

Imp does not work out the Key ID of the signing key for such messages. 
An attempt is made to look up the address in the address book, but if it 
is not there no attempt is made to look it up on a key server. Key 
server lookups are only done by key ID (slightly confusingly called 
fingerprints by Imp internally).

I did some work on a patch to get Key IDs of signing keys yesterday. It 
needs a bit more work yet but should solve the problem
-- 
Chris Hastie