Re: [Evolution] autoimporting public keys?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Hmm, have you tried adding

keyserver pgp.net

to ~/.gnupg/options?

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 09:12, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> With mutt, before I switched to evolution, I used to have things set up
> so that when I viewed a message that had an openpgp, mime-style
> signature, the message was automatically verified, and if I didn't
> already have the relevant public key in my keyring, mutt would try to
> automatically import the relevant public key from a well connected
> keyserver.
>
> I guess it's not horrible having to click for a verification (although
> it may tend to make me not bother to verify, which kind of defeats the
> purpose of signing mail to some extent), but it sure would be a lot

Well its so that it can't be faked visually with html mail etc.

> easier if evolution could somehow autoimport public keys.  Without this
> latter feature, I just plain don't verify signatures at all, except for
> the people who were previously left in my keyring by mutt sessions of
> times gone by.
>
> Does evolution already do this somehow?  If not, could it please?
>
> I'm using ximian evolution 1.2.1 on redhat 7.3 at work, and redhat
> evolution 1.0.8-10 on redhat 8 at home.