Mutt/GnuPG doc initial release

[Gordon Worley]

At 4:00 PM +0100 9/24/01, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:45:25AM -0400, Gordon Worley wrote:
>
>>  It works in Eudora, but it's annoying.  I have to get your key and
>>  let PGP go through trying to verify the message in Eudora in order to
>>  read it; I can't read *PGP/MIME stuff without it having gone through
>>  this.  As you might imagine, I'm not too excited about putting the
>>  key of every little person that posts to the list in this way, so
>>  unless you post a lot, and I mean a lot, I don't have your key and
>>  just skip your messages.
>
>What does it do if it doesn't have (and can't obtain) the key?  With
>mutt if signature verification fails for some reason (such as a missing
>key) all that happens is that an error message is displayed along with
>the verification attempt.  If you don't have the key then gpg can be
>configured to either just fail or try to get the key from the
>keyservers.

It will display the message with an error message like key could not 
be verified or something like that if it can't find the key in your 
keyring or on a keyserver.  The main problem is that if the key can't 
be found, I have to wait a couple minutes to see the message while it 
tries to find the key.  I just don't have the time for all the extra 
time that each PGP/MIME message entails.  I have no idea if it's the 
same in other mail clients, but here on OS X things should be much 
better in a couple months once we have clients using GPGME.framework.
-- 
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