Re: [Evolution] Fetch PGP Public keys from LDAP?

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2017-12-06 at 09:26 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 14:50 +0100, Ángel wrote:
> > On 2017-12-05 at 19:31 -0500, David Burleigh wrote:
> > > Is it possible to have Evolution fetch someone's PGP public key
> > > from an LDAP server and use it automatically to encrypt mail for
> > > that recipient? It would be nice if PGP public keys could be stored
> > > in Evolution Contact records and used automatically for encrypting
> > > mail sent to such contacts.
> > GPG supports fetching keys from LDAP keyservers, so you might be able
> > to get the functionality by setting auto-key-locate keyserver-URL.
>
> True - with the caveat that LDAP (port 389) is likely to be blocked
> across boundaries [firewalls] in a lot of environments.

heh. If he wants to fetch data from LDAP, he better doesn't have a
firewall blocking it ;)



With keyserver-URL method you specify a url to the ldap server you want
to query (eg. your company LDAP). Alternatively, you could set that as
your default keyserver, and specify just keyserver for auto-key-locate.