Well, I've been playin' with things today and it looks like I broke somethin'. I've been following the latest tar ball releases of Sylpheed main for a while, and didn't have any problems compiling it with --enable-gpgme and--enable-ssl.
Their latest release (0.8.8) requires gnupg and gpgme to be newer versions than is currently found in the Woody archives. So, I had played around with compiling gnupg and gpgme from source, and then compiling Sylpheed. I ran into a lot of problems and ended up downgrading back to Sylpheed 0.8.6, gnupg 1.0.6 and gpgme 0.3.5 (rm the files associated with programs compiled from source, apt-get remove any associated .debs, then apt-get install and recompile the older releases in the appropriate order). Today while looking around on my system, I decided there were a couple more things that needed to be cleaned up from some of that experimenting, and did a little bit of "housecleaning". The end result is that Sylpheed is no longer decrypting e-mails, and is unable to sign or encrypt outgoing mail. I figured this wouldn't be a problem... I just rm'ed the compiled binaries, apt-get removed any .debs associated with those programs, and began re-installing. I started with apt-get install gnupg (1.0.6), then compiled gpgme (0.3.5) and finally compiled Sylpheed (0.8.6). This was the configuration that had worked previously. But Sylpheed still didn't work. Furthermore, when I tried to do a gpg --list-keys, it would error out after listing only 3 keys. (I made the mistake of not saving the error message... see below) I thought this might be the result of having a newer gnupg installed, and now the older version wasn't able to read my keyring. Compiled 1.2.1 and still had the same problem. So, I downgraded to 1.0.6 again. After playing around a little while, the problem mysteriously vanished. However, Sylpheed still isn't able to decrypt messages, sign or encrypt messages. The last thing I did was try to get rid of everything Sylpheed, everything gnupg, and everything gpgme. Then I apt-get installed gnupg (1.0.6), compiled gpgme (0.3.5) and then compiled Sylpheed (0.8.6). Everything seems to compile and install fine. The ./configure script even reports gpgme as being enabled, after finishing in the sylpheed source directory. Does anyone have any suggestions what might have gone wrong? TIA, Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
