On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:30:25PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-04-05-04:14:56 Sebastian Helms:
> > > I'd like mutt to not verify signatures that are not in my
> > > keyring, in particular I don't want gpg to trying to connect
> > > to the keyserver when I'm not on-line. How is gpg being called
> > > for key verification, and is there a way to make it not contact
> > > keyservers?
> >
> > Remove the "keyserver" line from your .gnupg/options. But then no
> > sigs are checked... so I am having my options copied every time o
> > go online or offline. The online version has a keyserver line, the
> > offline one doesn't.
>
> Now this is interesting; I wonder if it's changed behavior with a
> different version or something.
>
> Running mutt 1.0, gnupg 1.0.0, and with no keyserver line in my
> .gnupg/options, I get signature checking that runs fast, and
> validates correctly if I have they key on my keyring already. All
> adding the keyserver line to .gnupg/options seems to change is
> making it try to automatically fetch the key if it doesn't already
> have it.
>
> -Bennett
yeah, that's the way it works for me too (gpg 1.0.1, mutt 1.0.1i).
I'd just like to have better control over when gpg tries to
download keys, I wish it (or mutt) would ask "hey, do you want
me to try and fetch this key from $keyserver?".
Not a deal breaker, though.
Sam
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