Re: [Evolution] autoimporting public keys?

[Dan Stromberg <strombrg dcs nac uci edu>]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 04:47, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 02:17, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 19:04, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 17:48, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > Hmm, have you tried adding
> > > >
> > > > keyserver pgp.net
> > > >
> > > > to ~/.gnupg/options?
> > >
> > > Been there, done that. 
> > >
> > > It works with Kmail, but not with Evolution. When I get a signature from
> > > someone whose key I don't have in my keyring, if I get it in Kmail, in
> > > the inline format Kmail understands, then gpg will automatically search
> > > for the key when it attempts to verify the signature. If I get it in
> > > Evolution, I have to manually request the key with 
> > > gpg --recv-keys <key ID>
> >
> > I had never even thought to mess with this until I ran across this
> > thread. I just opened up my .gnupg/options and added the following:
> >
> > keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net
> > keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
>
> Ah-ha! That's the option I was missing. I didn't have the
> "auto-key-retrieve" line in my options file. 

This fixed it for me too - once I had a pingable keyserver in my options
file.  :)

Thanks.

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