On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 14:19 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:23, David Hebbeker said: > > The manual [1] says that GnuPG can automatically retrieve keys for > > emails in the "[email protected]" form. Does this exclude emails > > wrapped by angle brackets like "<[email protected]>"? > > That is fine.
Hi Werner and everyone, thank you for your response, I was hoping that this would be possible. On the other hand, I have experienced a behavior I could only explain with auto-key-locate being restricted to the pure form. Maybe you can enlighten me on this case. I demonstrate this behavior on a system which uses the attached configuration file gpg.conf. I tested this with GnuPG 2.1.18 and 2.2.12. Preparation =========== rm msg.* echo "hello world" > msg.txt gpg --batch --yes --delete-keys [email protected] Bad Case (does not work) ======================== gpg --always-trust -e -r "<[email protected]>" msg.txt gpg: <[email protected]>: skipped: No public key gpg: msg.txt: encryption failed: No public key Good Case (works) ================= gpg --always-trust -e -r "[email protected]" msg.txt gpg: key 9FF2194CC09A61E8: 7454 signatures not checked due to missing keys gpg: key 9FF2194CC09A61E8: public key "Edward, the GPG Bot <edw [email protected]>" imported gpg: no need for a trustdb check with 'always' trust model gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 gpg: automatically retrieved '[email protected]' via keyserver Note: The only difference is the missing angle brackets. Can you please explain the difference? That would be of great help! Thanks David
keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 # Used for encryption auto-key-locate keyserver # Used for verifying signatures auto-key-retrieve
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