[imp] Importing GPG-Public Key not (always) working

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Peter Meier <peter.meier at immerda.ch>:

> Hi
>
>> There is no keyring in Horde. Personal keys are stored in the user's
>> preferences, public keys in the user's address book. Adding public
>> keys is the same like adding contacts from a e-mail message header.
>
> ok now I see how it works. The Keyring under options is just a list of
> all contacts which have a PGP Key added. Now it makes as well sense that
> I didn't find any storage for that. And it makes also sense in a design
> point of view, that there is no redundant data.
>
> So did I get it right that importing a public key under options would
> simply create an addressbook entry with the given pgp key?

Correct.

>> Does this work?
>
> It took me a while to play around with all possible combinations and
> then suddenly i thought this might be because we were having two
> addressbookes and it doesn't know to which one it should add the
> key-entry. However disabling one didn't change anything. (both sql backends)
>
> So it still doesn't really work.
>
> What I have attached is Key #1 (key1.asc) which  is working, and which I
> can import and it gets added to the adressbook (with no addressbook
> entry for this address before) and I get a positive message that it have
> been successfully added to the addressbook. And I can remove this entry
>> from the addressbook and readd the key with no problem.
>
> And I have key #2 (key2.asc), which I can't add and I get no error
> message nor any log entry. Even the same behaviour if I add the address
> to the address book and leave the PGP-Key-Field empty I can't import it.
> However I can add the address to the addressbook and paste the key into
> the field and then it will also appear in the keyring in the options.

I can import both keys just fine. It has to be some issue local to  
your system.

Jan.

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