David Thorburn-Gundlach [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Since you can, IIUC, encrypt mail with different public keys so that
> each private key can, alone, open the message, it makes sense that
> pgp would also let your private key open the file.
>
> ...and then Jeremy Blosser said...
> % It isn't quite what you want, but check out $pgp_encryptself.
>
> Oh; oops. Sure enough, I have pgp_encryptself set in my .muttrc and
> that probably explains my great success.
>
> I'm still interested in whether or not I was right in my analyses,
> however...
You are correct, but the message only gets encrypted with your pubic key
along with the recipient's key as you said if pgp is told to do so.
Setting Mutt's $pgp_encryptself variable causes pgp to act this way.
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