GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 531262
PGP encrypted mail sent from MS Outlook are not displayed decrypted
Last modified: 2008-05-07 09:09:33 UTC
Confirmed Environments: Ubuntu 7.10 (amd64), Evolution 2.12.1, GnuPG 1.4.6 Ubuntu 8.04 (amd64), Evolution 2.22.1, GnuPG 1.4.6 Problem: It works fine to send GPG encrypted mails from Evolution to MS Outlook or to another Evolution client, but when an email sent from MS Outlook encrypted with PGP Desktop then Evolution can not parse the message and thereby does not decrypt and display the message. I have no problems with reading encrypted emails sent from another evolution client so there is nothing wrong my keys. I expected the messages in the emails to be displayed but the received emails from MS Outlook are instead displayed like this in evolution: **** Bug submitters note: the content that evolution displays starts below this line **** Could not parse PGP/MIME message gpg: armor header: Version: PGP Desktop 9.8.2 (Build 3005) gpg: public key is 004BEC3A gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 004BEC3A gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available ****** Bug submitters note: content ended on the previous line ******** The entire email looks like like this (I have put X's in the ip- and email-addresses): ****** Bug submitters note: full email starts below this line ******* Return-path: <email address hidden> Received: from Mattes (unverified [XXX]) by XXX.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 6.0.11) with ESMTP id <email address hidden> for <email address hidden>; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:02:24 +0200 Received: from Mattes by Mattes (PGP Universal service); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:09:03 +0100 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by Mattes on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:09:03 +0100 From: "Me" <email address hidden> To: <email address hidden> Subject: outlook to evolution Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:08:42 +0200 Message-ID: <000b01c8a12b$7722e3a0$6568aae0$@XXX.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcihK2pvnwvEmJx4SZqMBC6ZFUC1RQ== X-PGP-Encoding-Format: MIME X-PGP-Encoding-Version: 2.0.2 Content-Type: multipart/encrypted; boundary="PGP_Universal_812F09E6_E522C593_E5CCA7F3_B45E5D2A"; protocol="application/pgp-encrypted" X-Evolution-Source: pop://XXX%<email address hidden>/ --PGP_Universal_812F09E6_E522C593_E5CCA7F3_B45E5D2A Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted; x-mac-type=54455854; name=Version.txt Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Version.txt Version: 1 --PGP_Universal_812F09E6_E522C593_E5CCA7F3_B45E5D2A Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-mac-type=70674546; name=Message.pgp Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Message.pgp -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.8.2 (Build 3005) qANQR1DBwEwDm/RgmgBL7DoBB/9pnLmLW0T0Zv1xHjEsG2TKHbZ9EQEZ2dLZ93de bTFb+3zK0GJMuCWBzQn1qq4FMdgyPox3N4bsiXFo6uHsw6vH8dIIjhL/qMbyYSiF cydhyNW7wRZWNRkTjDSngY97MlGUnXPB/qb3b+d+ST1W1ZPpTd2gVgQSyTJjmRWO emSc/KDrROCYz35wPRqpq0K5g9I4htqmM1+/CBq6mTjc3t7ge/oJnyu0kfLsx7rB mEv2qIJPeu0nr+g7lw2BVjWeWnPYsfX0Sf0A4aD+8dsn+wZqQUR4Bn5oXuPbDGPe Z7DmtnqlrDqeZ1jxBLAA5tJjEqM9K90pZaVjE9kiiUNN6J0Z0sUQASo31KLmC+KA 1IgeVAISYzwnC6kx7eGEFLEE0VZ0GquAnCItIpoDHN4ubOHBIyeqQcN9pE8e6xyj Xi4dNN63ryx3nk9PTV/HNOTdNH+0+xzr0rPVRrxFn0nAzX4ozEILfCU35QCpXamd 1wVGXqlaRMPZRLx2o6N+0TauVbH0Jv/gc72eAPRaNjjnuyXo1s1ivXFwr5Dmzs+c Z52JXa7EzDUT+uRZxPakmdPuF9a9OW9opCeHXiGfgeNARHW8AZaZ1ZZBJH2MvPeE sQMfhuVgghazsLdMP/qIxqhMiVHMe+zr1mJFbzfDsIsHdcyhS8YuVlYbMz/iEcUp vY5f8qt660akSf5tn4x9M/hCp7hS+uDbJXSFeTJr7kmUPGYKT0ltI2jfsCl5a9SL M77QRgMKY7FMx74SQZFInDq0SoscgLuLjHtf5rUGnIFVHcs38Ytkzbc8aRH1OfQv mSHIPTq4DAwYJLOHsY9fmKDK0d9RubitMybBVshhRERk8ytdEOSP5+9CP2f5JYVJ ZNQeqOATxUjDipO0kJzGZhbvtSoTAPMLfdLqM/NGzDEToWIy9c0uBZLJWewg0Wpb 8g40Z9VpM6tqeJLW6jJC8YW7HtJJRSW9WbNCZOlTGCOw7r2nnS2xSuuZWfXXcU9s if8nwAR6WqK4J1WFocRhGvyVYDdxEGGCEbUbe2Ra8DYWvsA4fibOmiy1yu7wksbu ZLu7WCLZZtPOn4V7LbQ0iV0l/fJK8b8Ay4M63JQdhInfD60Ll9BctvZpAOEQjGJL N4kARcuuo+j9Pvi9COX9sRMSpPk81DsayE1tkbeKlb5cm/dd9YN9GRNSY5gAmsej LMHr3/wykvLgO3Xt8YxrfyxpuKZcWS+BRW8FO63U4HQfijVdZ658bRsQkdwLmoe2 eeBx56wU9c+vUAAhAVEezsBzLEG65oPaDOVXpPRKAImUJ4PqhsIDJBwwBnq0Za23 86vfiWDx27H3cHQYUzzuwHgpaGKHwZeg8rhp2NITPjzDBCvC9Xy1te6ODHhS3S6z V4Byj1PncXvTKd0T6jDfii+MLV62HfqW/UYXqtVf+4u9FihAwmjUvlvWOyWhiYlJ XA3fY4XetfLbt8qKOa3QNoiwmjTMRSAL69Z0RQWpEm3Mpw4WdQYmpM3hE6rCgyd2 BShR1+lge5WjbIg8FDH6m/tRPhfRX4BpE8CJDFiY0nGG+LUl+hWyp1I9QWMzwHCi YxzE8IWKuWulIUeg3QEKH+TsLAyxs4Q3FcQYcgD5gEkM59LhhqunxPMgOiihyckg k3gf2+AlNbv0WAtB3iXNBdIuGnxQ+WXMhsrGwbXxlg/i87f4tt/UyMY46Zoz69UH Ozv0xR/5HhaSMx1NHJ5Tp5YzP6bPfHgdxH0JwFK8rCxVumehW+Ng0P/8jV0H7B9T UdcJYlixBSaWj/voXa5V6X8CPf7F5rm1lVOweQ9xkaXZdkDt8Yh4YlrFozd524SO fyOJHD02DC1Yp5+JNP1r4nt7APgAoC/5BoLcSc6Db6Sv96BvUNvP9CvHJIsefZbk krmC+EanbPVa+ejS3nRrdnioCz22txvZxh9PfBcQp9Xk7tE+KDKus1mSJTduKmXp QKcR56GYD/ZZl13ct76X+OeM0OuL00/E9VetO/cT/BppGM1UFwfnOVuDEIRJVZm2 s6C+lyp2PT1vOs3qM6WO0wWfYgiuld5Yx2ytAxzeuPo/nJ8nQcg0oHplh2DWz5ou iGFGsELg2fvP896nb1p0qlGQpzdnLE2d55RQUOLMIYoNaYeCBnNxFW28s0lTBilI TOJK/G58KuMZSWtYQIOteAqBNBqhDCq4RUzdTU9/q8lLmRU8LsIX0ZY8BW+C7KyC BRfUv0e1KSUQZBhP1sloKoSjxunazL5mkOFl/F6GWoUf75J4o30lbe4w2mQDurg9 7vfLFzEsXzXMu+gaWqfuFtEogEq39AZndJqe1GIfG/d1jhvVu2XE =2AGg -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --PGP_Universal_812F09E6_E522C593_E5CCA7F3_B45E5D2A-- ******* Bug submitters note: full email ended on the previous line *******
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available not an evolution issue.
Please read the ENTIRE bug report. It says clearly that the secret key is available since I'm able to read other encrypted emails sent from another Evolution mailer. I do believe that this is an evolution issue and that evolution is UNABLE to find the key but that doesn't mean that the key is not available (because it evidently is available).
gpg: armor header: Version: PGP Desktop 9.8.2 (Build 3005) gpg: public key is 004BEC3A gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 004BEC3A gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available You need to import the secret key into gpg otherwise gpg can't decrypt it. the message you sent from evolution must have been using a different key to encrypt to.
Please, here me out. Evolution decrypts all other emails for me but not the ones sent from PGP Desktop. I only have one keypair so there is no other key that could have been used. Could you consider the possibility that the header sent from PGP Desktop is different from what evolution expects and that is root of the problem ("Could not parse PGP/MIME message")? Please verify that you can't repeat the problem before you close the bug report. If you give me your public key I can send you an encrypted email from PGP Desktop so you can properly verify the bug / invalidate it.
Evolution just pipes the message to gpg and gpg is saying that it doesn't have the secret key needed to decode it. there's really nothing Evolution-specific to this bug report. If you don't believe me, copy the ---BEGIN PGP MESSAGE--- text, paste it into a file, and then run gpg --decrypt on it. You'll get the error message.
1) please run "gpg --decrypt" as described by jeffrey and tell us the output. 2) i have no idea what "PGP Desktop" is.
You're right, my apologies. To my defense though, this is my own (bad) attempt to reproduce an actual bug I've encountered many times. I have therefore submitted a new bug report (#531912) which describes the problem I tried to reproduce.