Evolution with GPG

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Dear all, how can I use Evolution Mail with GPG/PGP? It seems that it needs gnupgp, but I can’t install it. Any ideas? Thanks a lot!

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Evolution Mail comes pre-installed with Endless OS
The name is E-Mail application

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Dear Leandro, yep, I know - but I cannot import a asc-file for the keys.
Only S/Mime works. It says that gpg is missing.

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Something that would help us a lot to understand the problem would be this:

  1. Open the application called ‘Terminal’
  2. In this application run the command:

eos-diagnostics

  1. The above command will create a file with the information of your system (example: eos-diagnostic-160614_111731_UTC + 0100.txt); Send us this file so we can analyze and see a possible solution
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Dear Leandro, thank you so much for your help. I appreciate it - the
file is attached. Best, Gerald

eos-diagnostic-180111_130816_UTC+0100.txt (342 KB)

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How about using this instructions https://www.linux.com/learn/how-enable-pgp-encryption-evolution ?

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It is not about installing a pgp key. The problem is that gnupgp is apparently missing, thus Evolution cannot deal with PGP encryption (and endless os does not allow me to install gnupgp)

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how about installing Thunderbird from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ and then use Enigmail plugin?

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Can you take a screenshot of the exact error message? Endless OS definitely has gpg installed.

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Well, my problem is that I don’t know how to install my pgp-key as there
is no “seahorse”-app. I can install a S/MIME certificate directly in
evolution. But there is no option to install a pgp key in evolution as
far as I know. Usually you have to do that in a keychain-app such as
seahorse.

thanks for your help!

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Ah! You can do this from a Terminal window. If you don’t already have a GPG key, you can follow instructions like these on the Ubuntu wiki to create one. Here’s an example from my system:

$ gpg --full-gen-key 
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.18; Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) RSA and RSA (default)
   (2) DSA and Elgamal
   (3) DSA (sign only)
   (4) RSA (sign only)
Your selection? 
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 
Requested keysize is 2048 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
         0 = key does not expire
      <n>  = key expires in n days
      <n>w = key expires in n weeks
      <n>m = key expires in n months
      <n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0) 
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y

GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key.

Real name: Will Thompson
Email address: wjt@endlessm.com
Comment: 
You selected this USER-ID:
    "Will Thompson <wjt@endlessm.com>"

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
gpg: key A71EB7858BC2C387 marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: directory '/home/wjt/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d' created
gpg: revocation certificate stored as '/home/wjt/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/228926EC1E1EDDBBED93168FA71EB7858BC2C387.rev'
public and secret key created and signed.

pub   rsa2048 2018-01-18 [SC]
      228926EC1E1EDDBBED93168FA71EB7858BC2C387
      228926EC1E1EDDBBED93168FA71EB7858BC2C387
uid                      Will Thompson <wjt@endlessm.com>
sub   rsa2048 2018-01-18 [E]

Having done this, it was visible in Evolution:

If you already have a key on another machine, you can export and import it.

Hope this helps!

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great, that worked! Thank you so much for your support! I appreciate it!
Best, Gerald

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