I was refering to the key creation process that forces users to create a
key that includes the email address of the associated account.

On 22.12.2017 03:39, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:40:35PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> I wish Enigmail would not force adding email to keys as well, so
>> people get used to authentication and creating rules rather than
>> complaining about not finding keys
> 
> Essentially Enigmail only provides a JS wrapper to GPG itself, so the
> recipient check when encrypting or list-key flag when looking up keys
> will match whatever strings would also match on the command line.
> Matching all or part of a UID in that context is always going to be
> supported and thus Enigmail will inherit that.
> 
> Just as there will always be people who ask about it instead of
> reading the manual(s).
> 
> Besides, a PRR isn't the only way to override key selection with
> Enigmail, it's just the easiest to do solely through the GUI.  It's
> drawback is it's only set in Enigmail, it can't be used by GPG outside
> of Thunderbird.  Setting a group line in gpg.conf with a corresponding
> mapping in the PRRs, however, will work in both Thunderbird and on the
> command line.
> 
> Enigmail, as far as I am aware, is still unable to use a group line
> directly from gpg.conf.

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