Re: Message signing popups....

On Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:35:36 AM CEST John Scott wrote:
> If you're using Debian or a derivative by chance, there is a gpgsm (GPG for
> S/ MIME) bug related to it not importing system certificates. Unless the
> distro provides the specific integration, gpgsm has no certificate
> authorities to go off of by default.
> 
> Using my S/MIME certificate too now out of spite :)

Since I have returned to kmail (the message display in evolution makes it too 
difficult to see which messages are read and which aren't): I'm sometimes 
getting the same pop-up --- and since we are at this: What is the point of the 
signature verification?

Unless I have met the person and have personally exchanged keys with them, I 
do not know who sent the message.  After I forgot my passphrase over 20 years 
ago, I stopped using encryption simply because it is not feasible.  And  in 
the almost 30 years since I exchanged keys with like 3 people, I haven't met 
anyone who would even have a clue how to exchange keys.

So why waste the resources on it?  Why is kmail nudging me with a feature as 
useless and wasteful as this?  It's great that kmail supports encryption, but 
for everyone you didn't exchange keys with personally, you can better turn it 
off.