[Users] Decryption fails since changing key [solved]

[Christian Lerrahn]

Hi again,
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:54:24 +1100
Christian Lerrahn <sc at penpal4u.net> wrote:
> > I am not sure if this is a CM or a GPG Agent problem. I am also
> > sure I have solved it before but I can't figure it out any more.
> > So, I have to start somewhere.
> > 
> > My GPG key expired recently and I generated a new one. Now, I have
> > the problem that while I can still decrypt all the old emails which
> > were encrypted with the expired key, all emails which were
> > encrypted with the new key will just show a "Couldn't decrypt:
> > Decryption failed" without me ever being asked for a password.
> > 
> > I have played with all the settings I can find but I just can't
> > figure out why it's always the expired key that's matched instead
> > of the current one.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?  

As it turns out I just had a mess of gpg vs gpg2 keyrings. I had
accidentally generated the new keys on gpg while gpg-agent uses the
gpg2 keyring. After exporting all secret keys from gpg and importing
them to gpg2, the decryption works as expected.

Cheers,
Christian