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 "u...@example.com" form. Does this exclude emails > > wrapped by angle brackets like "<u...@example.com>"? > > 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
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rm msg.*
echo "hello world" > msg.txt
gpg --batch --yes --delete-keys edward...@fsf.org
Bad Case (does not work)
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gpg --always-trust -e -r "<edward...@fsf.org>" msg.txt
gpg: <edward...@fsf.org>: skipped: No public key
gpg: msg.txt: encryption failed: No public key
Good Case (works)
=================
gpg --always-trust -e -r "edward...@fsf.org" msg.txt
gpg: key 9FF2194CC09A61E8: 7454 signatures not checked due to
missing keys
gpg: key 9FF2194CC09A61E8: public key "Edward, the GPG Bot <edw
ard...@fsf.org>" imported
gpg: no need for a trustdb check with 'always' trust model
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
gpg: automatically retrieved 'edward...@fsf.org' via keyserver
Note: The only difference is the missing angle brackets.
Can you please explain the difference? That would be of great help!
Thanks
Davidkeyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 # Used for encryption auto-key-locate keyserver # Used for verifying signatures auto-key-retrieve
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