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Re: Do you auto fetch GPG keys?



On 2006-06-16, Kyle Wheeler (kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Friday, June 16 at 05:29 PM, quoth Ye Fei:
> >I think perhaps I did not configure my gnupg correctly. In my
> >.gnupg/gpg.conf, there is a line "skeyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net"
> >Is this a correct server for downloading the "public key" needed
> >to verify your encrypted sig.
> 
> Try adding this to your .gnupg/gpg.conf:
> 
>     keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
> 
> That will make gpg automatically fetch keys for signatures if it 
> doesn't already know the public key for it.
This option works perfectly. COOL
Thank you.

> >How can I know your keys? no matter the public or the private. Shall 
> >I set "pgp_getkeys_command"? I do not how to set it.
> >I am sorry if this is not a mutt-relevant subject.
> 
> You can do that too (but I think the above one is more important). 
> This setting should work:
> 
> set pgp_getkeys_command="gpg --recv-keys %r > /dev/null 2>&1"
> 
> ~Kyle
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