Re: How to activate a given GPG key through a macro...

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, September 23 at 10:41 PM, quoth P.M.:
>I have a few gpg keys corresponding to a few different
>email addresses. When sending out mail within Mutt, I
>choose which address to make active through a macro
>key. So I am wondering how can I also include a
>command within each macro that activates the gpg key
>relative to that email address.
>
>This way, I would just assign a variable to the
>various pgp entries in my .muttrc, for instance:
>
>set pgp_sign_as=$UID
>set pgp --encryption-to=$UID
>and so forth....
>
>and then assign the value of $UID each time I need to
>switch through a single command (added to the macro
>sequence activating a particular address), eg:
>
>set UID=0xD214....
>
>The problem is, I do not know how to do this properly
>within Mutt. How do I do it???

There are several ways to do it. You could include the command to 
change pgp_sign_as in the macro that you use to change your return 
address, or you could set it in send-hooks. Depends on which seems 
more elegant to you.

>Also, is it necessary to run the command, 'pgp
>--local-user <key>' each time I switch to a different
>gpg key, or the abovementioned setup will suffice?

No, but you need to have the sign-as included in your pgp_*_command 
settings. For example, my pgp_encrypt_sign_command includes:

     %?a?-u %a?

What that does is makes sure that my gpg is told to sign with whatever 
key I have set as pgp_sign_as.

~Kyle
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