Bug 1297872

Summary:	mutt should use gpg2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Till Maas <opensource>
Component:	mutt	Assignee:	Matej Mužila <mmuzila>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	hhorak, jpacner, mjg, mmuzila, mrunge, opensource
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Description Till Maas 2016-01-12 16:46:26 UTC

Description of problem:
with gpg 2.1 gpg 1 and gpg 2 do not share the same secret keys anymore. Mutt only uses gpg 1. Therefore keys that are available only in gpg2 cannot be used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.5.24

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create gpg key with gpg2 --gen-key
2. try to sign a message with the key

Actual results:
key is not found in mutt

Expected results:
key should be found

Additional info:

Comment 1 Till Maas 2016-01-15 18:02:10 UTC

Replacing the gpg.rc contents from /etc/Muttrc with "set crypt_use_gpgme=yes" fixes this. Why is gpgme not used in Fedora's mutt by default?

Comment 2 Michael J Gruber 2016-05-10 07:38:17 UTC

(In reply to Till Maas from comment #1)
> Replacing the gpg.rc contents from /etc/Muttrc with "set
> crypt_use_gpgme=yes" fixes this. Why is gpgme not used in Fedora's mutt by
> default?

gpg is still gpg 1 by default in Fedora, so there is every reason for mutt to use that default gpg by default, unless it requires specific gpg 2(.1) functionality.

The mess with different secret key stores is entirely due to the (one-)way from gpg 1 to gpg 2.1. That surely is confusing, but it's the user's decision to use gpg2.

Luckily, mutt can use gpg 2.1 with a simple config setting, as you confirmed. In particular, it is ready to use that by default once gpg 2.1 is the default gpg in Fedora.