Re: How to set a PGP key to encrypt to recipient in TB! ?
Hi On Monday 2 December 2013 at 3:41:53 AM, in mid:1816249602.20131201224...@denstarfarm.us, Robert D. wrote: I used to write to Melissa when such a foible met me ... 'how to get prompted by TB!' ? When I started with TB! my recollection is that it automatically picked whatever matching key was found first. Then I am convinced it was changed in an upgrade to present the user with a list if there were multiple matches; I don't think it was a setting the user could affect. I'm sure I used to sometimes see this. But I just tested with a couple of email addresses for which I have more than one key on my keyring, and TB! didn't prompt me which key to use. In my very limited test, TB! seemed to be automatically using the oldest key for encryption and the newest key for signing. As far as I remember, it was unreliable and only sometimes offered me the choice. But I don't recall hearing anybody say it had been changed back to TB! picking one itself. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com All generalisations are dangerous, even this one. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: How to set a PGP key to encrypt to recipient in TB! ?
Hi On Sunday 1 December 2013 at 5:04:38 AM, in mid:791153592.20131201000...@denstarfarm.us, Robert D. wrote: It seems that way back when, using early TB, I could set a certain openpgp key to be used per a particular recipient, ahead of time .. like in a New Message template in the AB ??? I can't recall. An help on this? I've been using TB! since v2.x in 2004 and never been able to find a setting, or even a workaround, to achieve this. I'm sure somebody will chime in if a newer TB! version than mine can do this. Since you used the abbreviation TB (without an exclamation mark) I have to ask if you were thinking of Thunderbird, where the Enigmail add-on does provide such a setting (per-recipient rules). For example, I have a friend who has a few Public keys, here in the keyring. I only want to use certain one. If several public keys have user-ids containing the email address to which you are sending, TB! should be presenting you with a dialogue box to choose one for encryption every time you send them an email. If you want to always use the same one and not get that dialogue box, you could disable the others in GnuPG or PGP. If the friend has several keys but does not have their email address in any user-ids, in GnuPG you can create a group line naming the group as the email address surrounded by angle-brackets and pointing to the key you want to use for encryption. (Some PGP versions have a way of achieving the same thing, some do not.) I'd like the $SIGNCOMPLETE to make use of my preferences. I think it would be more sensible if they added this functionality to %encryptcomplete, and the option of choosing which of the sender's keys to use for signing to %signcomplete. I think in the past there have been wish-list entries requesting such a function (or/and an addressbook field to set the key to use). -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Change is inevitable except from a vending machine Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: How to set a PGP key to encrypt to recipient in TB! ?
Hello MFPA, Sunday, December 1, 2013, 7:36:05 AM, you wrote: Since you used the abbreviation TB (without an exclamation mark) I have to ask if you were thinking of Thunderbird, where the Enigmail add-on does provide such a setting (per-recipient rules). mensch-meier .. ur right! I used TB! back in the two's; had some wrangle for a while with constant crashing and switched to TB (bird + enigmail) and THAT may have been where I saw that ability. Hoever, ur workaround is more than functional ... and no, I am not presented with a selection choice when the email address has multi-keys in the key-manager .. I used to write to Melissa when such a foible met me ... 'how to get prompted by TB!' ? thanks a bunch for the reminders. I'll run thru the list and disable such and such keys. -- Best regards, Robert Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
How to set a PGP key to encrypt to recipient in TB! ?
It seems that way back when, using early TB, I could set a certain openpgp key to be used per a particular recipient, ahead of time .. like in a New Message template in the AB ??? I can't recall. An help on this? For example, I have a friend who has a few Public keys, here in the keyring. I only want to use certain one. I'd like the $SIGNCOMPLETE to make use of my preferences. -- regards from RD Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
