[Evolution-users] Encryption problem - need help

Patrick O'Callaghan poc at usb.ve
Wed Oct 1 14:36:01 UTC 2025


On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 14:39 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
>    You do not have their secret key, so you can not decrypt the
>    message, hence the error.
>    
> I know you are both the sender and recipient using different accounts
> which muddies the water a bit - but still the sending account can't unlock
> the private key for the recipient.

Yes, it seems counterintuitive that you can't read a message that you
yourself sent, but the message is encrypted with the key of a different
identity from the one that's sending it.

poc


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