[Users] Signatures don't seem to work

[Dave Howorth]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:11:15 +0300
mlist <mlist at riseup.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:43:28 -0700 Chad Wallace wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:17:19 +0300
> > mlist <mlist at riseup.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > If PGP signatures require fetching from a key server,
> > > then is it normal that checking of signatures works
> > > when Claws is in offline mode? Also is it normal that
> > > nothing shows in its network log? Or are any of these
> > > two bugs to be reported?    
> > 
> > When GPG fetches a key, it stores it in a keyring.  I'm pretty sure
> > the keys are stored forever, so it would only ever have to fetch any
> > given key once, unless your keyring gets deleted or corrupted or
> > something like that.  
> 
> I understand that but it doesn't answer the 2 questions.

Well, only because the questions are unanswerable. The answers start
with: 'It depends on whether the keys are in cache or not ...'. The
answers given are pretty clear to me and I know even less than you
about gpg etc.