bug#26298: 26.0.50; Gnus fails to sign mail with PGP

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> I can't reproduce the original bug, but this I can, although with
> mml1991 (not clear to me how this get's chosen).  I think it's just a
> matter of making the error a bit clearer, e.g.:
>
> --- i/lisp/gnus/mml1991.el
> +++ w/lisp/gnus/mml1991.el
> @@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ mml1991-epg-sign
>       (mm-decode-content-transfer-encoding cte)))
>      (let* ((pair (mml-secure-epg-sign 'OpenPGP 'clear))
>          (signature (car pair)))
> +      (unless (stringp signature)
> +        (error "Signature failed"))
>        (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
>        (insert
>         (with-temp-buffer

I've applied this patch to Emacs 27.1.

I don't do any signing, so the rest of this thread was greek to me.  :-)
Were the other issues worked out?

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