[Evolution-users] Encryption problem - need help

[janos]

Thanks. I don't use encryption (have no big secrets), I was just
playing with it for "what the heck!".

As far as I understand pgp encryption works by
1) Sender has a secret and a public key
2) Sender encrypts the message with its own private key and the
Recipient's public key
3) Sender sends its public key to the recipient (or the recipient can
fetch the sender's public key from a public key-server).
4) Sender sends encrypted message.
5) Recipient can read (decrypt) received message because recipient has
its own private key corresponding to its public key.

In this case I checked Options PGP Sign and PGP Encrypt before I sent
the message.

Sending message worked, because I (the sender) had my own private key 
and the public key of the recipient (point 2 above).
The receiving end worked, i.e. the recipient could read the encrypted
message (point 5 above.

As I stated initally both sender and recipient uses Evolution.
How come Evolution could not display the message I sent?

Could this be a pgp peculiarity?

Janos - (definitely not an encryption specialist)

On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 13:47 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm not using mail encryption (yet), so I can't tell you how to
> configure it
> in Evolution. But the message says that your secret key isn't found
> in the
> sending machine. It *is* found in the receiving machine. You need to
> copy
> your secret key to the sending machine. And, possibly, do some Evo
> configuration.
> 
> Home this helps,
> V.W.
> 
> Am Mittwoch, dem 01.10.2025 um 07:33 -0400 schrieb janos via
> evolution-
> users:
> > Could not parse PGP/MIME message: Failed to decrypt MIME part:
> > Secret
> > key not found
> 
> > On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 13:18 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > The picture you sent is way to small. The text isn't readable.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > V.W.
> > > 
> > > Am Mittwoch, dem 01.10.2025 um 07:09 -0400 schrieb janos via
> > > evolution-users:
> > > > Hi, this may be a trivial question.
> > > > 
> > > > I sent a signed, encrypted message to myself on another
> > > > account,
> > > > different mail server (email provider). The message was
> > > > received, I
> > > > could open it, and the email client (Evolution as well, of
> > > > course)
> > > > showed everything OK.
> > > > 
> > > > But, I could not view the sent message in the Evolution "Sent"
> > > > folder:
> > > > 
> > > > The sending Evolution and the receiving Evolution was on
> > > > different
> > > > machines.
> > > > 
> > > > I do not understand the "Could not parse ..." part, and the
> > > > "...
> > > > decrypt MIME" part
> > > > 
> > > > What am I doing wrong? What do I have todo to correct this
> > > > situation? - thank you for the help and suggestion.
> > > > 
> > > > Janos
> > 
> > -- 
> > sent from andraslinux machine
> > https://jgklinux.jangkom.com/
> > 

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