Re: [Evolution] Trust of untrusted keys in public keyring

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 07:52, James W Ascroft-Leigh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just configured gpg to get public keys from a key server and
> something concerns me about how evolution deals with this.  Evolution
> reports that "the sender of this message is very likely who they claim
> to be"

where does evo claim this? no where does it say any such thing.

>  and yet the output from gpg does not support this assertion.

amazingly enough, we report whatever gpg reports (since what we show in
the dialog is simply gpg's stderr spewage)

>   The
> wording of this message is dubious at best but is clearly incorrect in
> this case.

looking at your screenshot, I see no such dubious message of which you
speak.

> There is an option to "Always trust keys in my keyring when encrypting"
> which I keep off but there does not seem to be an equivalent option for
> verifying and the 'default' is not my preferred (indeed not a suitable)
> choice.

is there a gpg option for "always trust" when verifying? I don't believe
there is - hence no option in Evolution :-)

Jeff