In message <20060227110351.GA6934@cyclonus>, Christian Biere writes:
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>Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> Is anyone successfully using gpg with sylpheed 2.2.0?  Any time I try=20
>> to sign something, it says=20
>>=20
>> 	(sylpheed:821): Sylpheed-WARNING **: pgp_sign(): signing failed: User
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>Have you tried signing something manually for the same recipients and
>the used key with gpg? There are several 'User ID ...' error messages
>used by GnuPG. This one is certainly truncated for some reason. Your
>best option, is to modify or single-step through pgp_sign() in Sylpheed
>to determine where it bails out.
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>The truncation *could* be related to the very poor mlock() handling of
>Sylpheed. Maybe it just makes the mlock() ineffective though. I mean
>it really helps to STFW for opengroup+<syscall> before using a syscall
>function.


Error 1024 -- "User Error 1".  Whatever that means here....

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb