On 20.12.17 10:16, martijn wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have three uids for a single key: > > pub rsa4096 2017-01-19 [SC] [expires: 2022-01-18] > 394420E2911BA2F4EA0A1871A14E77064301A03A > uid [ultimate] Martijn Fleuren <[email protected]> > uid [ultimate] Martijn Fleuren <[email protected]> > uid [ultimate] Martijn Fleuren (University mail) > <[email protected]> > sub rsa4096 2017-01-19 [E] [expires: 2022-01-18] > > the first one functions as a forwarding alias for the second one. > > [email protected] has to be the primary one when i am sending a message > for enigmail to choose the right key, but when sending a message it has > to be [email protected]. > > One solution is to keep swapping the primary key manually each time i > send or receive. But i find this unsatisfactory because they are just > names that refer to the same key. enigmail should be able to figure out > which one to pick. I have this set up in thunderbird under: account > settings > openpgp security > use email address of this identity to > identify openpgp key. I also have automatic reply-to set to the alias > address. I think the problem lies in that direction.
I would recommend to _not_ use the email address to identify the key, but to explicitly specify the key fingerprint using the selection dialog. This will make Enigmail explicitly tell GnuPG which key to use, independently of which UID is on the key. -Patrick
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