On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:35:20PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 19:56:13 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > Sitting for tens of seconds while mutt retrieves a key from a web site > > is just silly. > > > > Is there a way to turn this off while still allowing me to send (using > > 'p') signed messages? > > I haven't paid a lot of attention to the Mutt side of configuring GPG > operation recently (since the setup that I put in place years ago has > been doing what I need), but off hand it sounds like you may be able to > do what you would like by commenting out the "keyserver" line in the > $HOME/.gnupg/gpg.conf file. > > Once you do that, GPG won't try to automatically download keys for new > correspondents when checking signatures (it will instead give just you > a warning that the signature could not be verified), but it shouldn't > change the way it signs your outgoing messages... > Thanks, I've done that (commenting out the keyserver line), we'll see if it works! :-)
-- Chris Green
