On Saturday 27 February 2010, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > Am Samstag 27 Februar 2010 schrieb Laurent Jumet: > > Hi Laurent, > > > Martin Bretschneider <mailing-lists-m...@bretschneidernet.de> wrote: > > > I want to recreate my GnuPG keys. My question is if I can omit > > > the email address? Since I do not want my email addresses to > > > appear on the keyservers because of spammers and so on. I only > > > want to put my name and maybe my toplevel domain in the comment > > > field. > > > Is the some kind of problem with this behavoir? Can email clients > > > find out what key to use if there is no known email address? > > > What do you think? > > > > > You can use whatever you want to identify your key. > > But in some cases, mail programs expect to find your e-mail. > > that was my expectation as well. But what do the email clients do > then? Do they say "no key available" or do the look for the name? > What are your experiences?
When you want to send an encrypted messages with KMail/Kontact then KMail/Kontact first checks whether there is a key specified in the address book. If the address book entry does not specify a key then KMail/Kontact tries to look up the keys based on the email addresses. If it does not find keys for all recipients then it shows a dialog were you can specify which keys to use. Regards, Ingo
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