Nominet PGP / Enigmail

grantw · Feb 4, 2011

Is anyone using the enigmail plugin for thunderbird with the automaton? It looks like it's working fine but I'm getting this back:

V048 Signature did not match the text

I've tried most of their suggestions on the error pages which haven't helped.

Any ideas, greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Grant

dotNetFreak · Feb 4, 2011

Make sure the e-mail is being sent in plain text...

grantw · Feb 4, 2011

dotNetFreak said:
Make sure the e-mail is being sent in plain text...

It is. I'm seting up a new laptop, so have backed up / restored my thunderbird settings etc. from my PC onto the new laptop. PGP works fine on the PC (using pgp 8.1).

Baffled!!!

Cheers, Grant

dotNetFreak · Feb 4, 2011

Odd, most times I've seen that error message the fact it isn't plain text is the problem.

I don't use Enigmail, so this is a stab in the dark, but in the settings for it, see if PGP/MIME is an option and if so turn it off if it isn't already.

grantw · Feb 4, 2011

It's an option but it's already turned off.......things were going so smoothly...............

Cheers, Grant

dotNetFreak · Feb 4, 2011

Basically something is changing the e-mail after it has been signed in some minor way or some kind of formatting is being applied to the e-mail.

I have seen this error before with OpenPGP when it wasn't using a v3 signature generator.

In the settings, see if you can set it to use a v3 signature via an option, or if there is a box for passing additional arguments to GnuPG. If there is try adding "--force-v3-sigs" (without the quotes).

grantw · Feb 4, 2011

dotNetFreak said:
In the settings, see if you can set it to use a v3 signature via an option, or if there is a box for passing additional arguments to GnuPG. If there is try adding "--force-v3-sigs" (without the quotes).

That sorted it, you're an absolute star!!

Rep coming and I owe you one.

Cheers, Grant