[Users] Signatures don't seem to work

[Chad Wallace]

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.

Oh, yes, you're right.  I just reread your questions, and...  it's
because the Claws PGP/GPG plugins don't actually do the work
themselves.  They shell out to the gpg binary and pass it switches to
get done whatever needs to be done.  The gpg program doesn't check
Claws' offline switch (why would it?) and if it needs to use the
network, it just does.


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C. Chad Wallace, B.Sc.
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