[tin-users] pgp setup and posts

[Luc Lan]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 05:42:16PM +0100, Urs Janßen wrote:
> In Luc Lan <swimm3r at gmx.com> wrote:
> > gpg --version | head -n 2
> > gpg (GnuPG) 2.4.9
> > libgcrypt 1.11.2
> 
> > tin -V 2>&1 | grep GP
> >         +HAVE_ISPELL -HAVE_METAMAIL -HAVE_PGP -HAVE_PGPK +HAVE_GPG
> 
> looks ok, but somehow pgp.c:pgp_available() fails.
> 
> it can't read neither 
> 	${GNUPGHOME:-"${PGPPATH:-"$HOME"}"}/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
> nor
> 	${GNUPGHOME:-"${PGPPATH:-"$HOME"}"}/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> (tired in that order).
> 
> as your quoted error messages says:
> "... can't open /home/user/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
>                      ^^^^^
I did not want to share my linux username. sorry for that.

> which looks a bit uncommon (username = "user"?) I guess you have
> set $GNUPGHOME (or $PGPPATH) to "/home/user/" but it should be left
> blank (if the pubring is below ~/.gnupg/ and your username is not "user").
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Now I discovered that gnupg is configured as "use-keyboxd" (in ~/.gnupg/common.conf).

And when I try to list the keys it shows:

gpg --list-keys
[keyboxd]

I think thats why the pubring.kbx is missing.

But why tin is looking only for .gpg?