"Failed to execute gpg: Broken pipe" when email is not in the PGP keyring

[Andrea Grandi]

Hi,

if you try to send an email with Evolution, encrypting it with PGP and the recipient is not in the PGP Keyring you get this error message:

Could not create message.
Because "Failed to execute gpg: Broken pipe", you may need to select different mail options.

How to reproduce this:

1) for example you have the PGP public key of your friend Pippo <email address hidden> in your keyring.
2) you write a mail to <email address hidden> and select Encrypt
3) at this point Evolution doesn't ask you to select a public key from your keyring, it simply refuses to encrypt it and gives you this error.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, that's known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456230

[Jiten Bardwaj (jiten51)]

Pease send a shell script or what to tweak to clear the broken pipe syndrome. Thanks.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2008 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid