Well, to me it would also make sense to encrypt to the newest key by
default (by creation date), which would eliminate the need to create a per
recipient rule in most cases...
Having per recipient rules also brings the necessity to manage and maintain
those rules.

Onno



On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:54 PM, John A. Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:enigmail-users-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Brunschwig
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:00 AM
> > To: Enigmail user discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [Enigmail] How do I choose amongst multiple keys for a
> > recipient?
> >
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> > On 05.02.14 07:57, Doug Barton wrote:
> > > On 02/04/2014 10:42 PM, Charly Avital wrote:
> > >> Doug Barton wrote on 2/5/14, 6:00 AM:
> > >>> I have a correspondent whose "key1" has been on my key ring for
> > >>> years. They recently sent me "key2" which they would prefer that I
> > >>> use going forward. For various reasons I don't want to remove
> > "key1"
> > >>> from my key ring. How do I choose key2 when encrypting a message to
> > >>> that person without creating a PRR? I looked through the interface
> > >>> and did not find such an option, but I would be glad to be told
> > that
> > >>> I missed it.
> > >>>
> > >>> If there is no way to do this other than with a PRR, please
> > consider
> > >>> this a feature request to add one.
> > >>>
> > >>> Doug
> > >>
> > >> You don't need to create a new Per Recipient Rule, you just have to
> > >> edit the existing PRR
> > >
> > > Sorry I wasn't clear, didn't have a PRR before because enigmail
> > > automatically picks the matching key. I don't want to have a PRR at
> > > all if I can help it.
> >
> > Why not, what is your issue with PRRs? When creating the PRR, my the
> > first use-case I had in mind was this one.
> >
>
> As Patrick said, learning to set up the rule is the smart, and proper,
> option to use for this case. Even so, you could go the hard route and put
> the first key off this keyring onto another, spare one. Then it would be
> there for you if you should want to use it again for some reason, and you
> could manually add it back (i.e., the hard way) by importing it.
>
> You might try changing its trust value? But I can't say I have tested that
> result yet.
>
>
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